Renny Willins

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Why do these applications keep popping up?

So you’d rather clean the shower with a toothbrush than reboot your mac because everytime you do half a dozen applications fire up making it a more tedious experience than watching an episode of Big Brother. There can be a couple of reasons for this and they are all easy to fix. A few years …

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Apple Watch

I don’t know about you but when thinking about spending nearly $500 on a watch I’d want to think long and hard about it. After all, its only a watch! I mean, telling the time can come to you for the princely sum of $10.00 and adding (in the case of the cheapest model) $489.00 …

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The Dock

Think of your Dock like the preloaded radio stations on your car stereo. The icons sit there waiting for you to click on them when needed but removing those icons doesn’t delete the application in the same way as deleting Button 1 on your car stereo doesn’t demolishes KIX 106 (unfortunately) To add an icon to the dock …

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Smart Folders

A folder is like a draw. They are simple and self explanatory… you put stuff in them and thats where they stay and that’s all there is to it. But the Mac OS lets you create “smart” folders that turn the concept of the humble folder into something very different and a whole lot more useful. You’ll …

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Have fun with Dictation

Since Lion each Mac has had the ability to convert voice to text and, in a small way, replace applications like Dragon Dictate. But, as Apple seems intent on hiding the power of its software it looks for all the world like it is a one trick pony. With Dragon you can highlight text, move around the …

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