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Category: MacOS

Searching in Apple Mail

Mail is probably the only application you use everyday and as a result you likely have a ton of messages in your inbox. I know I do so when I needed to find that particular email from my wife telling me – specifically – what she wanted for her birthday I had to find it in …

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Removing Specific items from your Time Machine Backup

Time Machine backs up everything and as your disks starts to fill up it dutifully goes back to the beginning of time and starts deleting older files and backups to make more room. But imagine something like this and maybe it will relate to you…. Lets say you have a folder on your desktop that …

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Taking screen shots

It occurred to me the other day whilst doing  – what seemed like – my thousandth article, that I use a lot of screen captures and that maybe this is a process that I should share. The Mac has always had a very clean and simple way of capturing a screen to be pasted to …

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Yes you can install it more than once

We’ve all be brought up to believe and expect that most applications – and certainly operating systems – can only be installed once per purchase per machine. It’s confusing, I know,  and counterintuitive but Apple really does allow you to install Mountain Lion on more than one Mac after only one purchase. Once you have …

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Fix up your Address Book before its too late

All too often people rely on the Mail application remembering who they email. They get used to just typing in the first few letters of someones name and it appearing in the TO field. This is great until there is a disaster and years of accumulated email addresses can be lost. It is a much better …

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