Don’t want your week starting on Sunday? That’s a tall order in real life; in the Mac’s Calendar app, though, it’s an easy fix. Not only will Calendar (or “iCal,” as it was called until the Mac’s recent “Mountain...
Let’s just get this out of the way: I love Dropbox. I use it practically every day to synchronize files across my various Mac and PC desktops, and it’s an easy-as-pie way to share files and folders with anyone I choose. But there’s one aspect of...
A tiny control panel that sits on your desktop and acts as a virtual remote for iTunes, the MiniPlayer lets you play and skip songs, search your music, queue up new tracks, and more, all without having to switch to the main iTunes window. Of course, the MiniPlayer...
Celia writes: My girlfriend’s laptop has nearly breathed its last. As I’m too broke to purchase new, I was thinking of getting her a used Mac laptop as a replacement. Therein lies the dilemma. Where to buy? Who to trust? What should I look for? I would be...
Joel writes: I have severe arthritis in my hands and I dearly miss scrolling arrows in Mountain Lion. How do I get them back? Hello Joel! Yep, the little arrow buttons that used to flank scroll bars on the Mac desktop first disappeared in last year’s...
Starting last year with Apple’s “Lion” update for the Mac, the Apple Mail app got a whole new look—one that looks remarkably like the Mail app on the iPad, complete with a column of email messages on the left and a “preview pane” to the...
Got an e-mail with a link you simply must click (hopefully not a spammy link, of course), but not quite ready to leave your inbox? Good news: there’s an easy way to sneak a peek at a web link without leaving your Mac’s Mail application. Just hover over the...
Sick of having Internet Explorer pop up when you really wanted another browser, like Chrome, Firefox or Safari? I know the feeling. Both Windows and Mac systems will open a specific, so-called “default” web browser whenever you click a link in your email...
