Using Your Notification Centre On Your Mac | Mac Basics
There’s nothing worse than realising you were due in a meeting ten minutes ago, or you’ve forgotten a birthday. Luckily, Mountain Lion’s Notification Centre can make such disasters a thing of the past....
View ArticleHow To Stay In Touch With Facebook in Your Mac | Mac Basics
Social networking these days means staying in touch with friends and contacts anywhere, any time. We’re used to tweeting or sharing snaps from our iPhones, But Mountain Lion now integrates social...
View ArticleAuto Save and Versions,You Won’t Lose Your Work Again | Mac Basics
Thank’s to OS X, lost work could become a thing of the past. Barring catastrophic failure of the hard drive, you need no longer worry about losing stuff of things go wrong. This is because OS X now has...
View ArticleBacking Up Your Files With Time Machine | Mac Basics
Time machine is the default option for backup on every Mac running OS X since the introduction of Leopard (OS X 10.5) back in 2007. Although Time Machine wasn’t the first backup software from Apple....
View ArticleDictate Your Mac | Mac Basics
Voice recognition on the Mac is nothing new; years before Siri came to your iOS device – indeed, before there were any iOS devices – it was possible to control your mac and execute commands by speaking...
View ArticleHow To View Files With Quick Look | Mac Basics
You don’t need to open an image or other file to take a quick look at it, thanks to built-in feature in OS X called – what else? – Quick Look. Simply click the file i the Finder to highlight it, then...
View ArticleHow To Master The Dashboard And Its Widgets | Mac Basics
For carrying out simple tasks on your Mac, you can make use of Dashboard. This gives you access to a large selection of mini applications known as widgets. There area number of ways you can access...
View ArticleSearching With Spotlight On Your Mac | Mac Basics
When you need to find something on your Mac, there are several starting points. Which one is appropriate depends on how broadly you need to search. Apps that organise large amounts of related...
View ArticleSecure Your Mac With Gatekeeper | Mac Basics
Because it’s designed to accommodate multiple users, easy networking and always-on connections, OS X is very secure, more so then a Windows PC. As we’ll see, other users (and outsiders) have only the...
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