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Backing Up

Backing up is one of the most important tasks that all of us (including me) has or may have neglected to do. Backing up can be simple or complex as your needs facilitate. Simple would be getting an external hard drive and using Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Simply connect an external hard drive…

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Safari Safety Tips

Stop Stubborn Popup Windows: Even if you have popup windows blocked in Safari (Safari menu —> Preferences —> Security) You may have (or will) run into a certain type of window where there is no way of closing the window. While this is popular with Windows users in mind, the Mac version has been gaining popularity. This little…

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Windows on a Mac

(Icky but possible) Although the landscape has changed for the better, some websites just work better (or only work) on Windows and Internet Explorer. Case in point, a client had to make a setting change in Exchange OWA. When logging in through Safari, OWA would go directly into the Lite version of OWA, even though the…

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iPhone Lock Screen Tips

If you haven’t noticed, when you wake your phone by pressing the home button, or press the sleep wake button at the top, you get a screen similar to the one below. What you may not have noticed is that you have access to three different features of the phone without even having to unlock…

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How To Record Your iDevice

You read how to record the action on your Mac using built-in tools. You can also record the action on your iDevice. There’s 2 ways this can be done: The manual way, by setting up another camera and recording the action as you swipe, touch and tap. It works, but there is another way that will…

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Use Emoji to Express Yourself

Are you getting smiley faces and other funny images in your texts from your kids, friends or others? Not sure how to do the same back? The secret is these icons are another keyboard. To access it on your iDevice (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), go to “Settings”, then “General”. Scroll down to “Keyboard” and touch…