Applescript is the powerful, easy-to-learn, easy-to-use automation for Mac systems. Even without learning Applescript you can take advantage of scripts already loaded on your Mac, you just have to know where to look. Go to your Applications folder (from the Finder select the Go menu then Applications) and open the Applescript folder. Inside that folder is…

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…

You may know how to get special characters on your Mac, but what about your iPhone or iPad? Turns out, finding the letter with special characters are easy, specialized symbols require a bit more work. Let’s start with the easy. If the letter you need to type is on the keyboard, but you need a special…

Adding and editing calendar events on and iPad and iPhone is easy. But there is no need to add events by touching the plus sign. Learn other ways of working with events.

A neat new feature in iOS 8 is Audio Messages, or texting with sound. What may not be too obvious is by default the messages will auto delete after 2 minutes. So gone will be the “I Love You” from your spouse or kids but there is a way to keep them. First, let’s send an…

Learn how to quickly clean up your OS X Mail.app inbox by using simple tricks to select multiple messages easily.

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…

(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…

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…

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…