Belinda writes: I have a MacBook Air, almost one year old. Recently I switched from Mozilla Firefox to Safari. When I did that on some sites the fonts are really small. So I use Command + and – to make the fonts larger or smaller. But when I close the site out...
Mark writes: I’m using Mail on a two-year-old Mac with with latest OS. Emails from an important business resource automatically go to junk and I cannot “unjunk” them. How can I stop this? Hi Mark! Yep, the Mac’s Mail app can sometimes be a...
Having trouble making out the tiny type on your Mac’s display? In just a few clicks, you can magnify the entire screen—a handy trick, particularly for anyone with iffy eyesight. Here’s what you do (and here’s the Windows version of this tip, by the...
Sick of hitting the Caps Lock key by accident—and suddenly finding yourself typing IN ALL CAPS? Me too. Well, there’s an easy way to change the behavior of your Mac’s Caps Lock key—or even disable it altogether, if you wish. Related: Make your Windows PC...
Need a little help figuring out your new iMac or MacBook? You’ve come to the right place. Check out our updated survival guide for the basics on Mac OS X, including details on the latest “Mavericks” features, illustrated guides for updating and...
Caitlin writes: I love, love love my new MacBook Air, but it only just dawned on me that it doesn’t have a DVD drive. Do I need to buy another piece of hardware to play/open a DVD? Hi Caitlin! Apple does, indeed, sell a so-called “SuperDrive” ($80)...
Laurie writes: I have a Mac, iPhone and iPad and I use Apple Mail. When my husband sends or forwards an email to me from Outlook using his PC, the attachments arrive as “winmail.dat” and I can’t open them. Every search I have made on this subject...
Getting tired of the little “blurp” (or “ding,” or “beep”) sound your Mac makes when it needs your attention? I don’t blame you—and indeed, after years of living with the same annoying alert sound on my own iMac, I decided to...
