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...
Using a portable Wi-Fi hotspot (either a smartphone or a stand-alone device) to access the Internet on your Mac or Windows laptop? If so, careful. You’d be surprised how much data your notebook PC can burn through in a matter of minutes. Now, you may already...
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...
Ever stumble across a street address on the web—yes, an actual street address—and wish you could quickly pinpoint it on a map? Well, the usual way to go about it is to copy and paste the address into Google Maps in another browser window. But the latest version of the...
Back in the day, opening a folder on your PC’s or Mac’s desktop always opened a brand-new folder window, even if the folder you were opening was sitting in another folder. In recent years, though, folder windows have started acting like browser...
Wondering how your mobile hotspot-connected laptop ate half of your monthly cellular data allowance in a single gulp? Well, both Mac and Windows PCs come with a handy feature that may unwittingly gobble up a big chunk of your monthly mobile data: the ability to...
You probably know already how to copy and paste text, images, documents, and other digital items from one place to another by pressing COMMAND + C (“copy”) and COMMAND + V (“paste”). And you may even know about the “clipboard,” the...
Jennifer writes: I am a Mac Lion user, and I am having some troubles with my desktop. I always keep my desktop’s “Sort by” as “none” so that I can arrange the items by myself. Also, when I would drag a picture or any other item into my...
