How Do I Buy And Download A Program From The Mac App Store? I know that there's a slick iPhone and iPad app store [ed. note: generally this is called the "iTunes Store" or "App Store", depending on your preference] but I understand that there's also a similar online software store for Mac OS X applications and games too?
Date: 12-28-2011
>Get started with iTunes Match I have a huge library of music, Dave, and want to be able to enjoy it on all my Apple devices, but am tired of having to pay for the biggest possible storage on each so that I have space.
Date: 12-01-2011
Apple's New Retail App To Enable In-Store Pickups, Self Checkouts An all new Apple retail store app is coming on Thursday, and with it will come two major changes in the way Apple customers interact with the Apple Store.
Date: 11-03-2011
How do I uninstall Adobe Flash from my Macintosh? I'm sick of Flash eating up all my resources when I'm on a page that includes some Flash content and want to just completely remove it from my Mac OS X system. Is that possible, and if so, how do I remove Flash from my MacBook Pro?
Date: 10-06-2011
Can I run Windows 8 on my Mac with VMWare Fusion? I want to start exploring the new Microsoft Windows 8 developer preview that was released but I don't want to overwrite the OS on my Win7 laptop.
Date: 09-20-2011
Install a new typeface / font in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion? What's the fastest way to install a new font on my iMac if I'm running Mac OS XLion?
Date: 09-06-2011
Can I Customize Message Flags In Lion Apple Mail? I'm really working on better organization and management of my email inbox and archives, and want to know now that I'm using Mac OS X Lion's new version of Apple Mail, whether I can rename or otherwise customize the "flags" that are included in the program?
Date: 08-18-2011
"Locked, haven't made changes recently" error in Mac OS X Lion? I just switched over to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and am kinda weirded out about what happens when I go to edit a file that's more than a few weeks old. Instead of letting me edit the file like the computer used to do, now I get an error that the file is locked "because you haven't made any changes to it recently"?
Date: 08-04-2011
4 First impressions of OS X Lion (10.7) I have installed the new version of the Apple OS on my MacBook Pro and here and some initial impressions.
Date: 07-21-2011
Fixing "iTunes Library.itl" Cannot Be Read I've been experimenting with a beta release of Apple iTunes on my Mac system and decided I didn't really want to use it after all. When I went back to my regular iTunes app, however, I hit an error and don't know how to proceed.
Date: 06-27-2011
Record a Mac screen capture movie in Quicktime? I need to record a narrated movie of me solving a problem on my Mac OS X system and am a bit stumped about how to proceed. I read on one site that Quicktime Player has this capability, but don't know how to use it.
Date: 06-09-2011
Avoiding MacDefender infecting your Mac It's not the first time that malware of some sort has reared its ugly head in the Mac OS X world, but MacDefender — and its variants MacGuard, MacProtector and "Apple Security...
Date: 05-26-2011
Convert FLAC audio files to MP3 on a Mac? I have a CD that a musician friend of mine sent and I am eager to listen to it, but it's all in some weird format that my iMac can't understand: "FLAC". What is FLAC format and how do I convert it to a format that iTunes (and my iPod) will understand?
Date: 05-19-2011
How do I pair a Magic Trackpad with my iMac? This is probably like remedial Mac OS X 101, but I just got a new Magic Trackpad and am excited to use it, but can't figure out how to have my iMac know it's there. Since it's wireless, there's gotta be some trick, but my airport system never sees it?
Date: 05-03-2011
Cool Apple Keynote Presentation Tricks And Tips If you're a Mac person and do lots of presentations, you've probably already learned the many benefits of migrating from old-school Microsoft PowerPoint to the slick Keynote presentation application from Apple.
Date: 04-21-2011
How To Share a Windows Samsung ML-25x Printer on Your Mac This is kinda complicated, but I have a cool new Samsung ML-25x series printer hooked up to my Windows computer and it works great.
Date: 04-07-2011
How to Reformat Your Apple iPad Just bought a new Apple iPad 2 and want to prep your old iPad 1 for resale? You might be lucky and sell it to a relative (or be really nice and give it to them, for that matter), in which case it isn't a crisis if some of your information remains on the device, but if you're tapping into Craigslist or eBay, you'll want to know exactly how to reformat the iPad back to its out-of-the-box state for the new user.
Date: 03-24-2011
How Do I Change My iTunes Store Password? I just realized that my daughter has my iTunes account password because I got a receipt for about $25 worth of purchases that I'm sure I didn't make. I don't even like Eminem, Lil Wayne and don't even know who Wisin & Yandel are... ?
Date: 03-09-2011
Change An iCal Subscribed Calendar Display Color I'm hugely grateful that my children's school publishes an iCal calendar so I can have school events integrated into my business and personal calendar.
Date: 02-24-2011
How To Password Protect And Secure Your iPad My kids keep sneaking my iPad and playing games on it without my permission. I know, I know, it's a parenting issue, not a technology issue, but I just feel that if in addition to talking with them about honesty, trust and honor, if I can add a password to the iPad to prevent easy access, I'd have a backup if they were still being sneaky. I'm sure I can set a password up on my iPad, but how?
Date: 02-10-2011
How To Set iTunes To Open When You Start Your Mac I would like to have iTunes automatically start up every time I restart my iMac. I know there's a way to do that on my Mac OS X system, but I don't know how. Can you explain, please?
Date: 01-27-2011
How To Zoom In On Objects On Your Mac At a conference last week i saw someone make some sort of finger motion on his MacBook Air trackpad and have the screen "zoom in" and get bigger, so he could explain something to his listeners. Awesome. I want. How do I do this?
Date: 01-11-2011
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