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Useful Tips and Some Basics About Notification Center On Mountain Lion

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Perhaps one of the smartest choices that Apple could have made with the latest version of OS X was to bring the much-lauded Notification Center feature to it from iOS. In OS X Mountain Lion, Notification Center works as a panel on the right side of the screen that displays multiple notifications for different services, [...]

How To Enable, Use and Make the Most of Dictation on OS X

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One of the least-known features in the most recent release of OS X, Mountain Lion, is without a doubt the newly-revamped dictation tool. Of course, nowadays there is an abundance of dictation apps for the iPhone and other smartphones, and even for the Mac there have always been a couple of solid third-party applications. Still, [...]

2 Little-Known iTunes Tips to Make it Work Better For You

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For most Mac owners, iTunes is their de-facto music player and syncing hub. However, it is quite surprising that a lot of Mac users don’t know how to make the most of Apple’s media player, something that didn’t change much after the anticipated release of iTunes 11. Today, let’s take a look at a couple [...]

iMessage vs WhatsApp: The 2 Most Popular iOS Messaging Apps Compared

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By default, the iPhone and other iOS devices come with the iMessage app installed. This application, as its name states, allows iOS device owners to send messages to other users who own Apple devices. However, there are other applications in the App Store that provide iOS device owners with other features, like being able to [...]

Top 10 Free Archivers For Windows, Mac and Linux

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No matter how powerful your computer is and how much room there is on your hard drive, be sure you still need an archiver. Because as soon as you open your email and decide to send a batch of files you’ll realize that sending them as they are will require you to attach every file [...]

Clear vs Reminders: Which One is the Better iOS Task Manager?

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In past entries we have already discussed the importance of task managers, which is why there exists a number of them in the App Store ready for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to download. We’ve also reviewed a few of them and even compared one of the most popular free ones (Any.Do) to Apple’s [...]

How to Manage Your Mac’s Fonts With Font Book

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Among the several different characteristics that define the Mac, fonts are perhaps one of the oldest and most differentiating ones. In fact, the Mac was the first computer with beautiful, varied fonts that were proportionally spaced and came preinstalled on every Mac as a result of Steve Jobs fondness of typography. At the time though, [...]

5 Easy Ways to Force Quit Apps on Your Mac

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While not a common occurrence if you have a Mac, it happens from time to time that Mac owners have to face the dreaded spinning beach-ball of death, a clear sign that one or more applications on your Mac are frozen and unresponsive. Because of this, it is always a good thing to know how [...]

How to Use Your iPhone and Mac’s Webcam As Surveillance Tools With AtHome

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Not long ago, acquiring and setting up a remote surveillance system at home on your own not only would have been extremely complicated, but also insanely expensive. Thankfully, with the explosion of the mobile market and, most of all, of mobile applications, it is now possible to do this with relative ease and most importantly, [...]

2 Advanced File Search Techniques for Your Mac

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Just a few days ago, we reviewed some very useful basic tips for improving file searching on your Mac using the Finder. This time, we’ll take a look at more advanced file searching tips that will allow you to harness the real power of your Mac’s searching capabilities through filters and the many ways in [...]

DaisyDisk: The Best, Most Intuitive App to Find Large Files on Your Mac’s Hard Drive

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Without a doubt, one of the most important aspects to consider when it comes to keeping your Mac healthy and running smoothly is to give it proper maintenance. However, one of the chief maintenance tasks that our Macs require depend entirely on us, the owners: Keeping the space in your Macs’ hard drives organized and [...]

3 Finder Tips to Improve (or Restrict) Search on Your Mac

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Sometimes, there are tasks on our Macs that we take for granted just because they are relatively easy to perform. However, in many cases even the simplest of tasks can be simplified even further. Searching for files and folders on our Macs is the perfect example of this, since it usually takes just a few [...]

How To Manually Backup or Relocate Your iTunes Library on Mac

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At some point in time during the life of any Mac (or Windows PC) user, we are faced with one of these scenarios: Running out of space in our hard drives. Adding a second hard drive to our Macs. Changing Macs altogether. Wanting to backup all our important media. For any of these, changing the [...]

3 Small Menu Bar Apps That Can Make a Huge Difference on Your Mac

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While Macs (and all computers for that matter) share countless similarities in the way they work, each of us likes to use ours in our own, unique way, whether that means that we tweak little bits of it or completely personalize our computing experience. In any case, in order to get our Macs to perform [...]