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iPhoto is Apple's easy-to-use but essential and free photo browser, manager and editor. iPhoto helps you easily manage and edit your digital photos in exciting ways. You can easily share your favorite memories with family and friends. iPhoto has been with us a long time – since 2002, in fact. As part of the iLife…

Under Mavericks, we’ve got a fun new way to use certain notifications (and even interact with them without having to open an app!). How this behaves is partly dependent on what you’ve got configured within System Preferences> Notifications for the programs that this'll work for. For example, if you’ve got Messages notifications set to appear…

Emojis. You know them as the fun little emoticon-like ideograms that have become increasingly popular over the past several years. And for those who enjoy communicating certain thoughts and emotions via visual representations, you’ll want to upgrade to OS X Mavericks immediately. Apple has expanded the availability and implementation of Emojis in its latest operating…

Keynote 6, part of Apple's new iWork family, has made the leap forward to 2013. It's a complete rewrite of Keynote '09 and now has file compatibility with the iOS version. Here's my review. ________________________ Keynote is Apple's counterpart to Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation application. Keynote has always been considered easier and more fun to use,…

OS X Mavericks has plenty of new features to entice users into upgrading, but if the apps you rely on every day won't work it doesn't make sense to make the jump. Trying to sort through long lists of websites to see if the apps you need are Mavericks-ready can be tedious process, and you…

OS X Mavericks is very good at handling multiple displays. Any active display can have a Menu Bar now. But how do you get the dock to actually appear on the active display? Here's how to do it. ________________________ In Mavericks, any display can be the active display. You can tell which one is active…

Apple released iTunes 11.1.2 on Tuesday to address compatibility issues with the just released OS X Mavericks for the Mac. Apple released the new OS as a free upgrade on Tuesday following the introduction of new iPad models and updated MacBook Pros. iTunes 11.1.2 improves OS X Mavericks support According to Apple's slim release notes,…

Apple released Aperture 3.5 on Tuesday after releasing OS X Mavericks for the Mac. The update for the image editing and management app replaced Google Maps with Apple's own Maps for photo location tagging. Aperture 3.5 improves OS X Mavericks support The version 3.5 update also added iCloud photo sharing support, the ability to include…

When a major new release of an operating system is emerging, the developer can take two approaches. First, be heady with agenda and greatly annoy the users with abrupt, dramatic change. Alternatively, the developer can focus on all the areas that make the OS more secure, more fun and more usable. Apple has chosen to…

When a major new release of an operating system is emerging, the developer can take two approaches. First, be heady with agenda and greatly annoy the users with abrupt, dramatic change. Alternatively, the developer can focus on all the areas that makes the OS more secure, more fun and more usable. Apple has chosen to…

OS X Mountain Lion users got an update to Safari on Tuesday, giving them shared links support and a new sidebar. MacBook Pro and MacBook Air users got a little something, too, thanks to Safari 6.1's improved energy efficiency features. Safari 6.1 for Mountain Lion adds Mavericks-style sidebar Safari 6.1's shared links feature lets users…

Let's say you've copied an older version of a folder off of your backup drive, and you need to find out how its contents compare to the current version on your Mac. A lot of folks don't know that there's a built-in way to do that, and it's pretty easy to use and understand. It's…

Mobile Safari in iOS 7 wants to do its best to help you work more efficiently, so it automatically preloads the top hit from your Web searches. That's great, unless you don't want Safari to auto-load top hits. You can disable that feature, and it's easy to do. Read on to learn how. To disable…

In iOS 7 Safari, at first, it's perhaps counter-intuitive how to move a folder of bookmarks. However, once you get the hang of it, it's easy. Here's how to do it. The best way to show this is with a real world example. I have a Safari bookmark folder labeled “TMO-editor”. For the sake of…

The keyboard is a great way to get around your Mac, and you probably know quite a few of those ticks already. But I have two that every single Mac owner should know, and they both help you deal more easily with text. In fact, I'm using them even now to write this article. They're…

When you're emailing to a group from your Contacts program, you can just type in the group name to have Mail autofill all of those addresses for you. Depending on your Mail settings, you''ll either see this expanded view after you press Return… …or this: So how do you figure out which addresses Mail is…

Starting with Safari 5.1, Apple changed the amount of cookie details, for the worse, that we can see in the Safari Preferences. But we could still get to them with Developer tools. In Safari 6, the raw cookie detail is stored in binary format, but we can still see the data in “classic” mode with…

If you've created an encrypted disk image to keep your sensitive documents in, then there may come a time when you want to change its password. Maybe you drunkenly gave it out to all your friends, even that shifty-eyed dude. Maybe you just want it to be something more secure than “fido123.” In any case,…

So you're typing into a Pages document, and you've gotta include a Web address (like www.apple.com). The problem? Pages will automatically format the text as a hyperlink whenever you start a URL with “www” or “http.” You could leave that part of the address off (and just type “apple.com,” for example), but you can also…

When using Twitter, most of the time it's sufficient to log a Favorite or retweet (RT) a given tweet. But what if you want to publish a link to that tweet? Every tweet has its own unique URL, and that's what you'll need. Here's how to find it, either from your browser or from a…

If you do a lot of Web browsing, Safari's Reader feature is pretty much the best thing since ever. And if you've gotta print out an article, it's even better than that. Especially what with printer ink costing more than I could sell my first-born child for, and all. So take a look at how…

As invariably happens with the release of a major new operating system revision, bugs and other issues are practically guaranteed! Additionally, due to some new software technologies, you can expect there to be incompatibilities with some current software applications installed on your Mac. Some of you are really “into” this kind of thing – you…

There was a time when your Mac's Finder and application windows all had visible scroll bars that made it easy to move up or down in long file lists, and also gave you a nice visual cue to let you know there was more to see than the current window was showing. That's missing now,…

If you visit System Preferences> Displays under Mountain Lion, you may notice something odd. The familiar “Detect Displays” button isn't there anymore. Huh. Well, that was useful, and I'm sad to see it go. No, I'm kidding. You can get it back, in a completely non-obvious way. “Detect Displays” is handy if you use different projectors,…