Apple product tips & tricks from the official IT guy for my grandma…
The problem: When you crop PDFs in Apple Preview, you get the message: “Cropping a PDF document doesn’t delete the content outside the selection.” The scenario: I had a PDF of a long document (30+ pages) I needed to read for
Continue readingThis is part 1 of 2 in my workaround solution for sending and receiving your own domain’s email with a free Gmail account (rather than having to pay for Google Apps). If you can already send and receive from your own domain using
Continue readingThis is part 2 of 2 in my workaround solution for sending and receiving your own domain’s email with a free Gmail account (rather than having to pay for Google Apps). If you can already send and receive from your own domain using
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The problem: I want to save streaming videos (e.g. Netflix, Hulu) for offline viewing on my Mac/iPad/iPhone without installing expensive or suspicious software The scenario: I was going on an 11 hour flight to Thailand and the airline didn’t have Wifi. There were
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The problem: Apple Photos for OS X isn’t automatically finding and importing your iPhoto library The scenario: When the new Apple Photos came out with the release of OS X v.10.10.3 , I was super excited. iPhoto had become a clunky
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The problem: Change the name and icon of a Finder item in Mac OS X The scenario: I bought a Transcend JetDrive Lite for my MacBook Air (What’s that, you say? Read my review here), but when I connected it to my
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The problem: Running out of storage space on MacBook Air (or MacBook Pro) The scenario: I love my MacBook Air, but the problem with the drives in these thinner, sleeker computers is that the storage space is WAAAYYY less than their larger predecessors. Even
Continue readingHello internet! You’ve probably found my little site because you had some sort of Apple-related computer problem that you Googled and now you’re working down the search results page until you can find an answer that 1) you can understand and
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