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How to send lots of files or folders in an email
When you want to send someone a lot of files in an email, the best way to do it is to compress them into one file first, called an archive or a zip file. When the person receives the zip file they...
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"I'm getting heaps of spam, ever since I put my email address on my webpage. Is there a way to stop it?" Once you are receiving spam it’s hard if not impossible to stop it coming to you, all you can...
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How to edit a pdf document on a mac
If you’ve ever been given a pdf file that you want to edit, or a pdf form that you need to complete and return electronically, you’ll realise it’s not obvious how to edit a pdf file. NOw for proper...
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Backup Backup Backup!!!
Is your computer backed up? With 2T hard disks at around $100, there’s no excuse not to have your computer backed up. At the very least, you should have an external USB Hard Disk with some kind of...
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How to copy a font
A font is a particular style of text, like ‘Helvetica’ or ‘Times’. Sometimes you might make a keynote presentation on one computer, but then you copy it to a different computer, and it doesn’t display...
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How to connect your iPhone or iPod to your home stereo.
To connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod to your home stereo you just need a 3.5mm to RCA cable like this cable here. The RCA cable plugs into the rear of your stereo and the 3.5mm plugs into your iPhone...
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How to merge two or more pdf files in Mountain Lion
With Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8) Apple have made it even simpler to join two pdf files together – you just need to drag any pdf file into the thumbnail window of an existing pdf file and the two will be...
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How to transfer your data from an old macbook to a newer thunderbolt macbook...
Some of the newer macbooks and macbook airs do not have an ethernet port or firewire port, so you can’t connect them to an older macbook to copy your old files and settings accross. What do you do?...
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Is an iPad a good replacement for Macbook?
The iPad can to do most things a laptop can do, and the retina display on the latest iPad is better than the display most laptops! So is there any reason to still buy a laptop? The simple answer is...
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How to set up Apple mail to work with a Gmail account.
Despite their differences, Apple and Google do work well together when it comes to email. Gmail is free and it has great spam protection. But the Gmail web interface is a bit clunky. Apple mail is...
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Getting Started: The Control Key
On a Macintosh the control key has two main uses. Firstly, when using the mouse, if you hold down the control key while you click the mouse it gives you a contextual menu – a mini menu related to what...
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Getting Started: Connecting a Printer to a mac
The easiest way to connect a printer to a mac is to use the USB cable to plug the printer into the computer. For most printers, that’s all you have to do. There’s no need to use the CD that came with...
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How to use Quicksliver
Quicksilver is the first app I install on any Macintosh and I’m lost without it. With Quicksilver you press the Apple key once and a window appears on top of everything else. From this window you can...
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How to sell something on ebay
Here’s how to sell something on ebay from your mac. It’s all fairly simple. The only real trick is how to easily get your photos from iPhoto into ebay. Here’s how. STEP 1: Register to sell with...
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Do this BEFORE you lose your mac!
Apple have a fantastic piece of software called ‘find my mac’ which can locate your laptop anywhere. But it needs to be tuned on… and once your computer is lost or stolen – it’s too late! Here’s how...
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Getting Started: The Apple Key
I thought I ‘d kick off the year with a little series for new mac users, help out those people who got a Mac for Christmas! Lesson # 1 – The Apple key (also called the command key or key) is used for...
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How to import photos from an SD card
Someone recently handed me some photos on an SD card. Importing them was easy – the macbook has an SD card port that I had not even noticed before. I could plug the SD-card straight in! The little...
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Login to your mac automatically without having to type a password
By default OS X requires you to type in a password and login each time you restart your computer. If your computer is in a secure location, for example your office, you may want to set up OS X to log...
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