Time Machine is a great way to back up your Mac. But what happens when you're away a lot, with your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air? It means your computer can't back up via Time Machine. So it's even more crucial that you have a cloud backup of your Mac. We recommend CrashPlan, but there are other ...
What do I do if I receive a winmail.dat attachment on my Mac?
If you are a Mac user, have you ever received an email attachment called "winmail.dat"? I'm not talking about spam; I mean an attachment you were expecting, from someone you know. If you receive a winmail.dat file, which you can't open on the Mac, here's what to do: Download the free ...
iPhoto Import Preference: Should I Copy Items to iPhoto Library?
For those of you using iPhoto on the Mac -- there's an option in the newest versions of iPhoto that can have dangerous consequences. Open up iPhoto, and under the iPhoto menu choose Preferences. Then choose Advanced. You'll see a checkbox that says "Copy items to the iPhoto Library." It looks like ...
MacBook Pro or MacBook Air Is Slow To Wake Up? Here’s a Solution
If you have a fairly new MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, and you put it to sleep a lot instead of shutting it down, you may notice that if it sleeps for less than an hour it wakes up fast. But if it sleeps for longer, it takes 10-15 seconds to wake back up again. The screen comes on immediately, but ...
How I’m Using Evernote with my Mac and iPhone
Today I started using Evernote with my Mac and my iPhone. I've been hearing so many other people rave about Evernote, and yet I never saw the practical use for it. Until earlier today. I was cleaning off my desk and noticing the number of postcards and business cards from various craft fairs, art ...
Disable Apple Mail Inline Attachments
Some research the other day led me to a helpful blog post explaining how to stop attachments from showing a preview of a PDF and/or image. If you would like to make this the default behavior you’ll need to use the Terminal to set the preference. Terminal is in Applications>Utilities. Open ...