Want to wake up each morning to a freshly brewed pot of coffee and a fully powered-on Mac? It’s easier than you might think. Just like the timer on your coffee machine, the built-in clock on your iMac or MacBook can start up—or shut down—your Mac on any schedule you...
So, you know how to snap an image of your iPhone’s screen—but what if you want to take a screenshot of your Mac’s desktop? Well, there are actually five ways to snap a screenshot on your Mac, and they’re all just a few keystrokes away. 1. Take a screenshot of the...
Every time I download a file using Safari on my Mac, the file ends up in my Downloads folder—and each and every time, I drag the file out of my Downloads folder and onto my desktop. There must be a better way, right? Well, there is, actually—and in fact, you can make...
Once upon a time, every window on a Mac desktop had big, easy-to-click and impossible-to-miss scroll bars that never, ever disappeared. Since 2011’s “Lion” update to Mac OS X, however, Apple has adopted an “barely there” policy when it comes to scroll bars. Indeed,...
Paul writes: When my son updated to Yosemite on his Mac he lost the entire iPhoto library. He is sure the photos are there somewhere as he keeps finding photos as files (on his hard drive). Can you please help? Hi Paul! I feel your pain—or your son’s pain, that...
Raise your hand if you hate the spinning beach ball! Yep, I’m talking about all those times when your computer mouse turns into a spinning blue disc (on a Windows PC) or a multicolored beach ball (on a Mac), just as the program on your desktop comes to a...
Jayne writes: Is it possible to change the contact form defaults [in iOS]? When I tap to add a phone, email or address, the default label for these is “home,” but 99 percent of the time that I am inputting contacts, I want it to be “work,”...
Recently, I wrote a tip about how to set your iPhone to alert you whenever you get email from “VIPs”—friends, loved-ones, colleagues, and other special someones you’ve nominated for very-important status. Not bad, readers said, but is there any way...
So, wondering why your new Windows 8 PC is taking so long to start up in the morning? The culprit might be one of your startup programs—that is, programs on your hard drive that launch the moment you hit the power button. The Windows 8 Task Manager has a nifty feature...
Got a PDF you need to sign? One of the Mac’s niftiest tricks is its ability to snap a photo of your signature and paste it onto the dotted line of any PDF, but now there’s an even easier way for your iMac or MacBook to capture your John Hancock. Thanks to...
