Using Templates in Pages

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This brief tutorial will guide you through using the templates included in Pages, a part of the iWord ‘09 suite. Using Pages is a great way to enhance your business portfolio and create personal cards and more! Read more

How to permanently stop Dock icons from bouncing

Even if you’ve set your Dock preferences not to animate when you click them, some applications insist on bouncing to get your attention. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that behavior. Read more

How to set alarms and timers on your Mac

I’ve tried out at least a dozen different “Alarm Clock” programs for OS X. I finally found the perfect one in a program aptly titled Alarm Clock. This brief tutorial will guide you through setting up and using Alarm Clock. Read more

How to create a PDF of any document in OS X

You don’t need Adobe Acrobat to create a PDF file in OS X. It’s actually very simple to created PDF’s of any of your documents (even pictures) on your Mac. Read more

How to make Safari’s Private Browsing feature actually private

If you’ve been using Safari’s Private Browsing feature to keep your web-tracks hidden, it might come as a surprise to you that you are leaving a very visible record of the sites you’ve been visiting. This tutorial will show you how to remove those records. Read more

How to change the screenshot file format in OS X

This brief tutorial will show you how to change the default file format for screenshot (which is .png) to .jpg, .gif or even .pdf. Read more

How to check your Hotmail using Mail.app

This tutorial will guide you through setting up Mail, the default email application that comes with OS X, so that you can send and receive your Hotmail messages from directly within Mail. Read more

An introduction to the Apple Keyboard Symbols and Shortcuts

This brief tutorial/overview will explain how to identify the keys on your Mac’s keyboard, and some of the most common keyboard shortcuts. Read more

How to change the OS X login screen

This tutorial will guide you through changing the OS X login screen from the “Leopard wallpaper” to any image of your choice.

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Keyboard Shortcuts for when your Mac freezes

The following list of keyboard shortcuts will come in handy when your Mac freezes up (which as we all know isn’t that frequent of an event). Read more

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