A new year, ahh… resolutions made and broken. Well not this year! This year you’re going to make a resolution to start backing up your Mac – making sure your precious photos from Christmas, Hanukkah, (or whichever holiday you celebrate) and New Years get saved and backed up. (And it’s easy to do!) Just this…

There is an annoying limitation in iPhoto, and you may have run into it yourself: When iPhone photos and videos have been imported into iPhoto on the Mac, you can easily share photos by email through iPhoto. However, this is not the case with video a a customer of mine found out. He wanted to…

Getting iCloud to work is pretty straight forward. You enter your Apple ID onto your iPhone then enter the same Apple ID on your Mac (running Lion). Then you have options of what you’d like to sync. Mail, contacts, calendars, reminders and more. All of this works well if you are the only user and only have 1 Mac and 1 iPhone or iPad….

Try to rebuild your mailbox…  Sometimes the simplest answer to a problem is hidden in plain sight. Do you have email messages that appear garbled or that are not showing up when you search for them in Mail? You may need to rebuild your mailbox. First select your Inbox (or if you have multiple accounts…

 …Simple steps to secure your Mac! With the recent malware scare for the Mac everybody has opinion on the security of our preferred platform. This threat does remind us that NO computer platform is immune to attacks. The main reason for this? People. People use computers, so therein lies the main security breach. But with…

Domain Name System (DNS) servers change hard to remember IP addresses into easy to remember names. Such as 17.251.200.70 into apple.com. Most internet service providers (i.e. Comcast or AT&T) supply DNS information, but most are not as optimized and secure as third party DNS servers. You can speed up your web surfing and make it…

Taking a step back to move forward sounds strange, but that is what you will be reading today. Some topics within this article have been advanced, maybe too much. So, starting this month we will look at the basic settings and where to find things on your Mac. Starting with the Apple menu at the…

Ahh.. the System Preferences, the Application that shows you all of your Preference Panes. Accessible from the Apple Menu, it houses those sweet nuggets that let you make your Mac, yours. There are 4 categories: Personal, Hardware, Internet & Networking, and System. Today we focus on Personal. Appearance controls the appearance of your Mac (duh). Here…

This month’s tip relates to a personal experience with my iPod Touch and iTunes. Yes, this did happen to me. I’ve had this issue with my iPod Touch that really drove me nuts: some album artwork would show artwork from podcasts that I have or just the wrong artwork from another song. Normally a quick…