Recently, I explained how to use special paste options in several programs to remove rich-text formatting when you just want to paste the actual letters and symbols you’ve copied from one place to another, rather than preserve the font choice, t…
Lees meerThis is the last episode on the NetInstall service, which will let us connect to a network home folder that the user can customize to their liking, using a NetBoot image that they can’t change at all.To get started with this final ep you’ll need …
Lees meerThe mighty Mac OS X Dock was a thing of ridicule in its very early incarnations, when the otherwise reserved Steve Jobs seemed to have approved a thing that used lavish, unnecessary animation to show when apps were hidden or when the Dock was ho…
Lees meerWatermarking your photos is a fantastic branding opportunity. It can also deter photo theft, and including your URL in the watermark ensures anyone who sees the image online can easily find you and book a session. Lightroom users can create grap…
Lees meerI was innocently checking the Mac 911 inbox and answering messages, when I noticed the To: field in Apple’s Mail app for OS X had changed. Instead of it showing [email protected], an address I hadn’t put in my local Contacts list and given an …
Lees meerSometimes it’s the little things. Sometimes you just want an app to display your content the way you want, but with Apple, it’s not always the case. Take the Music app; you can no longer view a list of albums and songs, and this annoys some user…
Lees meerGlenn Ruga asks: All of my Sidebar shortcuts go to folders on an external hard drive where I keep all my working files. I use shortcuts to these folders often, but when I disconnect the hard drive to pack up my laptop on the go and reconnect my…
Lees meerYou may recall from our episode on starting your Mac using NetBoot images that using a NetBoot image requires you to go through the setup process every time you restarted your Mac. This sounds useless, on the face of it, but it isn’t when you use…
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Lees meerFrederick Benn wrote in suspecting that malware had infiltrated his iPhone: While running a battery app on my iPhone 6, it showed an invisible Chinese program running! After some back and forth and a bit of research, I found that the free app …
Lees meerWhether you’re a cord cutter or a pay-TV addict, we’ll show you all the ways you can watch this season’s bone-crunching action on screens of any size.
Lees meerThe other day, my wife texts me (from upstairs; I work in a home office in the basement): the printer had stopped working, and could I take a look? Our printer is connected via USB to an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (5th generation), which…
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