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Category: MacOS

Key Commands

  Legend has it that the mouse was always meant as a ‘learning’ tool and eventually we were meant to graduate to key commands. Well that didn’t work out so well did it! The mouse is vital, I think we all agree, but there are a number of very useful key commands that can be …

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Sending large attachments in Apple Mail

In yesteryear it was considered a sin, punishable by public flogging I am reliably informed, to send an email attachment larger than 2MB. The reason for this was simply because the average mail server could not handle emails that were larger. For years, if you needed to send large files, you had to commit them …

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Sending a photo from the Photo app

A lot of people had some very negative things to say about Photos when it first came out. These people complained that they couldn’t find anything, that their Events had disappeared and all the cool features from iPhoto had been removed. Happily, most of these complaints evaporated like a Trump election promise the minute they …

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Create a secure PDF file

I have said it many times… a PDF is the way to send a document via email. It can be read by any device, on any platform and the look, the formatting, you intended is never lost. Fortunately for us Mac users the ability to create a PDF from any document has been part of …

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Siri on the desktop

The arrival of Sierra back in Oct 2016 had me more excited than usual. Whereas in the past I had recommended caution and a “wait and see” attitude to upgrading, this time saw me diving in head first. There were a lot of reasons for this uncharacteristic gay abandon. Security had been improved – sure, …

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