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Mac OS Basics - wesfryer - 3 views

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  • David McGavock on 22 Jan 12
     
    "This is the outline for Wesley Fryer's 3 hour workshop, Mac OS (Macintosh Operating System) Basics. Last updated 25 April 2011. Apple Resources Switch 101 (Migrate to Mac)"
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Apple - Support - Mac 101 - 1 views

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  • David McGavock on 22 Jan 12
     
    "Whether you want to learn how to get around your Mac desktop (or find out what a desktop is, for that matter); figure out how to connect your printer, iPod, digital camera, or other device; discover email and the Internet; learn how to do various tasks; learn how to use the software that came with your Mac; or even find out what to do when things don't go as planned; we have the answers. "
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Apple - Find Out How - Mac Basics - 0 views

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    "Find out how" - Apple's site for back tutorials
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    Macintosh tech support. Online and in person.
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Pages FAQ: Missing Fonts - 0 views

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    "Missing Fonts Some users have had messages about missing fonts in all iWork applications - Numbers and Keynote as well as Pages. In many cases these messages seem innocent but annoying. In some cases the problem can affect the layout of the document."
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empowermac - YouTube - 0 views

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    empowermac The YouTube videos for empowermac. iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), iLife (iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes).
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    "With iMovie 11 coming out with features like a "real" timeline the iMovie FAQ has decided it is time to COME BACK!!! Yes... I will say it again there is a "real" timeline, and audio editing is much more enhanced, plus the functionality of the keywording in iMovie outdoes even what Final Cut offers. (and you will not hear me say that often). Over the next few weeks we hope to add content as a blistering rate. Stay tuned. To see the latest additions to the website click the "News" button on the Website."
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Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod and Apple TV Help and Tutorials - 0 views

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    Great tutorials and demonstrations on various aspects of the Mac.
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iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Calendar - 0 views

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    "iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Calendar"
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17 Reasons Why Your Mac Runs Slower Than it Should | ChrisWrites.com - 0 views

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  • Until one day you have a chance to use another machine, that’s when you realize what your beloved Mac has become, as slow as an asthmatic ant carrying some heavy shopping.Well all is not lost, while this list is unlikely to make you mac into a speed demon overnight, one of the following suggestions may just help.  
  • David McGavock on 29 Jan 12
     
    "17 Reasons Why Your Mac Runs Slower Than it Should Day by day, bit by bit your Mac has got slower and slower. You don't really notice because it has happened so gradually."
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Mac Stuff | Scoop.it - 0 views

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    "Mac Stuff "Appealing stuff about Macs, like cool apps, hardware, news, etc" RSS Curated by Maria João Valente "
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Macs & OS X - How-To Help and Videos - For Dummies - 0 views

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    Macintosh for Dummies - help for Mac users - videos and other support documents
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Apple - Accessibility - OS X - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 13 Nov 13
     
    "Every Mac comes standard with assistive technologies that help people with disabilities enjoy the power and simplicity of OS X. It includes features like an advanced screen reader, FaceTime, and literacy tools that help those with a wide range of abilities get more from their Mac."
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Installing Mavericks: What you need to know | Macworld - 0 views

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  • Before proceeding, be sure to read my article on getting your Mac ready for Mavericks, which covers system requirements and recommendations, as well as a number of tasks you should perform before upgrading in order to help the process go smoothly.
  • If downtime isn’t an option for you, you might consider holding off for the inevitable OS X 10.9.1.
  • After you provide your Apple ID and password, Mavericks will begin downloading. Specifically, the 5.3GB installer application, called Install OS X Mavericks.app, will be saved to your main Applications folder
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  • Alternatively, once you’ve downloaded the Mavericks installer to one computer, you can copy it—over your local network or by using a flash drive, external hard drive, or other media—to your other Macs.
  • Keeping the installer on hand Before proceeding with installation, here’s an important tip: If you run the installer from its default location in the Applications folder, the installation process deletes the installer, presumably to free up the 5.3GB of drive space it occupies. So if, as explained above, you plan to use the installer on other Macs, if you want to create a bootable installer drive, or if you just want to keep the installer on hand, before installing, you should copy the installer to another drive—or at least move it out of the Applications folder.
  • Once you’ve downloaded the Mavericks installer, here are the simple steps involved in installing the new OS:
  • Your Mac will next go through the initial-setup process, and there are few tasks you’ll want to perform when you boot into Mavericks for the first time.
  • as with Mountain Lion and Lion, upgrading to OS X 10.9 presents challenges for a few groups of people.
  • Can you jump directly from 10.5 to 10.9? Apple’s official policy is that you need to purchase and install Snow Leopard (currently $20 for a single-user license or $30 for a family pack) and then upgrade to Mavericks.
  • the Mavericks installer is strict about requiring OS X 10.6.8:
  • If your Internet connection is slow, it will take a long time—perhaps days—to download the 5.3GB Mavericks installer.
  • Organizations will use the same purchasing procedure as always to buy OS X, but they’ll be given one Mavericks redemption code for each purchase contract. After using that code to download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, that copy of the installer can be used on any and all Macs covered by the contract.
  • As with Mountain Lion and Lion, my experience has been that for the typical Mac user with a broadband connection, the process of purchasing, obtaining, and installing OS X continues to be easy and pain-free.
  • David McGavock on 16 Nov 13
     
    "Before Lion (OS X 10.7) debuted in 2011, installing the latest major version of Mac OS X meant buying a disc and slipping it into your Mac's optical drive. But Lion changed all that by making OS X available for direct download, and Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) and Mavericks (OS X 10.9) have inherited this distribution method. More specifically, the latest version of OS X is available only as a download from Apple's Mac App Store-and this time around, it's free. This makes it easier and more convenient to upgrade your OS than having to buy and use a DVD or thumb drive, but it also raises a number of questions, and it presents upgrade obstacles for some users. As I've done the past few years, I've compiled this guide to getting and installing Apple's latest OS. Before proceeding, be sure to read my article on getting your Mac ready for Mavericks, which covers system requirements and recommendations, as well as a number of tasks you should perform before upgrading in order to help the process go smoothly. "
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Resetting an AirPort base station FAQ - 0 views

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    Great description of all generations of base station.
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How Mac experts deal with their contacts | Macworld - 0 views

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  • Each of the five experts I spoke to uses iCloud for contact syncing; I’m the lone outlier who relies on Google’s syncing instead.
  • For organizing their contacts, every Mac expert I spoke to relies on Apple’s own Contacts apps on the Mac and iOS.
  • Cobook, which I only looked at on Sparks’s recommendation, can merge contact data from various places, including—for free—Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
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  • Cobook definitely takes fewer steps than using the Contacts app, and the changes you make sync quickly via whichever service you rely on.
  • Mail’s data detectors to work well most of the time—they make adding new contacts fairly convenient, at least compared to doing so by hand.”
  • “Make sure you keep a contact for yourself, with all your current email, address, and phone coordinates handy, so that you can quickly share it with others
  • Sparks, however, offered up some tips on his approach for keeping contacts organized. Chief among them is to make good use of the Notes field (which you can access in both Cobook and Contacts).
  • For quick searching, Sparks also employs what he calls “rudimentary tags” in the Notes field, like #referral or #holidaycard.
  • Apple’s own apps—like many others—are pretty good at handling contact data from multiple sources; so even as a Google-based contact-syncer, I’m able to use Apple’s apps (and now Cobook!) to manage my address book.
  • To make your contacts appear predictably, you need to know where you’re storing them.
  • avoid adding contacts via the Mac’s Contacts app when possible; it just takes too many clicks
  • David McGavock on 11 Nov 14
     
    Helpful tips from some power users for managing contacts.
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite features, updates, bugs and WiFi issues - News - Macworld UK - 0 views

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  • Here's everything you need to know about Mac OS X Yosemite and the WiFi issues that are plaguing users, including a possible fix. Plus discover the new features that have arrived with OS X 10.10, the fixes that arrived (and didn't arrive) with 10.10.1, and what to expect from 10.10.2. by Karen Haslam | 02 Dec 14
  • David McGavock on 28 Dec 14
     
    Good example of the pitfalls and benefits of OS upgrades
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How to fix Apple Mail by rebuilding and reindexing the Mailbox | Computerworld - 0 views

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  • If your Apple Mail doesn't seem to be searchable and/or has become so slow it seems to hang your Mac -- or even displays incorrect email content, then it's time you attacked  the problem: it's time to rebuild and reindex your Mailbox.
  • Before we begin Delete messages inside your Deleted Items and Spam folders Delete messages you no longer need Update to the latest version of Mail
  • Step 1: Rebuild Rebuilding a Mailbox in Mail sound daunting but it really isn't. Launch Mail, select one of your mailboxes and click on the Mailbox menu. At the bottom of the pane choose the Rebuild option. If you have a large mailbox, you can expect the process to take a few hours. You must repeat this step for each one of your Mailboxes.
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  • Step 2: Reindex Manual reindexing of Mail messages is the only way to go if the  application has become so unresponsive it barely works at all, search is not functioning correctly or the app won't launch.
  • To get to your home Library folder, hold down the Option key, then in the Finder choose Go > Library. In ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData, delete any file that begins with “Envelope Index,” such as Envelope Index or Envelope Index-shm. (Before you actually delete the files, it makes sense to copy them to a folder on your desktop.)
  • David McGavock on 20 Apr 15
     
    Tips for rebuilding and reindexing Mailbox in Mail.
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Mail terribly slow after upgrading to Yosemite | Apple Support Communities - 0 views

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    Another spin on slow email using "Mail"
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Recording Cassette Tapes into a Computer | explora - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 22 Apr 15
     
    "Using a Regular Cassette Player and a Macintosh Computer If you own or have access to a Macintosh computer and a plain old cassette player, the only piece of equipment you may need is a simple audio cable. Most Macintosh computers have a 3.5mm "line-level" input, which can be used to record a cassette directly into your computer. Unfortunately, MacBook Air computers, iPhones, iPads and iPods don't have a line-level input. Line-level inputs are very uncommon on Windows-based computers as well. Many Windows PCs feature a 3.5mm "mic-level" input, but cassette players never have a mic-level output, which makes this method a little too complicated for PC owners. However, you can record cassette tapes into any of these machines with an audio interface (skip ahead to the Using an Audio Interface to Connect a Tape Player to a Computer section for instructions). "
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