You’ve got some great photos in your iPhoto library that you’d like to share with friends or family so you want to burn them onto a CD or DVD. Naturally, you’d think the best way would be to go to the Share menu and choose the Burn option. Guess again! That only works if you are sharing with other iPhoto users and even then it doesn’t work very well. Instead, you should use this approach. [continue reading…]
Inside: Cursors, trackpad settings, being stealthy
First, thanks to everyone who’s been telling their friends and family about Mac Help For Mom. I really appreciate it. [continue reading…]
You probably don’t normally worry about how much noise or light your Mac makes until someone is napping nearby (or maybe you’re in a library) and then every click seems magnified and your screen seems to light the whole room. Watch this video to learn some easy tricks to make your Mac quieter and not as bright, while staying very readable. [continue reading…]
Newsletter subscriber Jac asked how he could make his trackpad less sensitive. As you might suspect, these settings are found in the Trackpad section of System Preferences. But you may not realize that buried in this section of System Preferences is a great video tutorial of many functions you can perform using trackpad gestures with one, two, three, and even four fingers! Watch this video to see how to control your trackpad’s tracking speed, double-click speed, and scrolling speed, also get a quick tour of the trackpad gesture video demonstrations. [continue reading…]
Readers Jac and Carmelita both asked how I get the yellow circle around my cursor (pointer) in my videos. That yellow circle is a handy way to better show where the cursor is in videos and can also help if your vision isn’t what it used to be. Unfortunately, as of Mac OS X version 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard), you need to download and install a separate FREE application to do that. Watch this video to see it in action. [continue reading…]
Tired of squinting to find your tiny cursor on your high resolution display? There must be a way to make it larger but you don’t want to waste time browsing through all the System Preferences pages until you’re lucky enough to find it. No problem, it’s easy to find a specific preference setting quickly. Here’s how. [continue reading…]
Inside: Emailing from iPhoto, special characters, keyboard repeat, updates
All of last week’s videos were about one topic (email) so this week I tried for a little “something for everyone” approach. As always, I love hearing feedback on what you found useful and what you’d like to see more or less of. [continue reading…]
Newsletter reader Bonnie submitted a question asking how to type a heart or happy face. As she suspected, there’s no need to limit yourself to the letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation you see on your keyboard. Hidden just under the surface of your Mac are thousands of special characters that you can use if you watch this video to learn how. [continue reading…]
The other day my friend Leo, the Windows expert at Ask-Leo.com, answered a question from one of his readers who wanted to completely turn off keyboard repeat in Microsoft Windows for his arthritic 86-year-old father. I figured that some Mac users might have the same question so in this video I show you how to adjust your Mac keyboard repeat settings or just turn it off if you like. [continue reading…]
iPhoto is a handy tool for organizing and editing your photo collection. In recent articles I showed you how to attach photos from your iPhoto library to emails in Apple Mail and in GMail.
But you can also email photos right from iPhoto. Not only is it convenient if you are already browsing your photo collection, but iPhoto’s “Share Email” feature makes it easy to create beautiful looking emails in a variety of professional-looking layouts. Watch this video to see how. [continue reading…]