Practical Mac Tips

http://mactips.info Sometimes you just can't remember where something is in the menus for the app you're using. Don't spend ages hunting — H...

http://mactips.info This video is an extremely brief demo of me using Dragon Dictate on my Mac. It shows me dictating a couple of sentences and mak...

http://mactips.info Sometimes the iPad keyboard is covering something you need to see at the bottom of the screen. Undocking it moves the keyboard ...

http://mactips.info When you point your iPhone at something to take a photo it may focus on the wrong thing, or make a subject against a light back...

http://mactips.info You don't need a Kindle device to read Kindle books on your Mac or iPad, just the free reader software. Here's how to read Kind...

http://mactips.info Need to add your actual signature to a PDF? You need Apple's Preview.app. Recent versions of Preview let you easily sign a PDF....

http://mactips.info It's all too easy to accidentally wipe out a word, line or page from a document you're working on. An accidental brush of the h...

http://mactips.info System Preferences is home to all kinds of very helpful settings, but Lion brings a couple of new features to the app. You can ...

http://mactips.info It's easy to make yourself a year planner using Numbers.app, an inexpensive spreadsheet application from Apple. Here's how — ...

http://mactips.info Don't waste time working through file dialog boxes. Instead drag and drop files onto your web browser. Read more at http://mact...

http://mactips.info It's pretty easy to make new sounds for your Mac to use as beeps. Here's how. The copy of Garageband included with your Mac can...

http://mactips.info Wouldn't it be great to give files and folders an icon that's meaningful (or even just attractive)? Look at one of your folder...

http://mactips.info Command click the Title Bar in Safari to go Home - http://mactips.info/2011/10......

http://mactips.info Command click the name of a document in the Title Bar (in some apps) to see exactly where the file is saved and open that folde...

http://mactips.info Lion has brought a new full-screen feature to many apps. If you like to really focus your attention on one thing at a time full...

http://mactips.info Quit and Discard Windows in Lion: Lion tends to automatically open windows that were open when you quit an app. This can be ver...

http://mactips.info Something on your screen too small to see properly? Lion has a virtual magnifying glass that enlarges the portion you need to s...

http://mactips.info If you've spent a lot of energy on styling one chunk of text and need other chunks styled just the same way, then copying and p...

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Movies, apps, music — if you get it from iTunes, then there's a record of it in your Account. Here's how to find out ...

http://mactips.info The Spotlight Window lets you really take charge of your searches, using some very powerful search parameters. Here's how to ac...

http://mactips.info How to use the Spotlight Window for simple searches, Mac Tip #479, 23 March 2011 If you want to search just one folder, or by t...

http://mactips.info: Tune up Spotlight on your Mac , Mac Tip #478, 16 March 2011

Spotlight takes care of indexing and searching your Mac. It can b...

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Get Info tells you a lot about any file or folder you've selected in the Finder: its size, which application will open it, wh...

If you need to straighten up a photo, for example to make the horizon horizontal, iPhoto can do it in a trice. Here's how.

How to straighten phot...