Inside: Email attachments, Emailing web pages, What’s on the Menu?
Big announcements from Apple this week! The two most relevant to Mac users are: [continue reading…]
GMail has all the email file attachment features of Apple Mail, but also benefits from being web-based. Besides the usual advantages of running on the web, like being backed up by Google and being available from any computer, GMail values your time by making your writing and sending process more efficient.
All you have to do is [continue reading…]
Whether it’s documents for work or photos of the (grand)kids, someday you’re going to want to attach files to your email. The Apple Mail application offers various ways of doing this so you can pick whichever is most convenient at the time.
Watch this video to see the many attachment methods and also how to tell Apple Mail to resize the images you’ve attached. [continue reading…]
You’re looking at a great web page, maybe an insightful article or a funny video, and you want to email it to some friends. Should you try to copy the contents of the page and paste it into an email message, or should you just send your friends a link to the web page? Will you somehow copy and paste it or is there an easier way? (Yes, there is.) [continue reading…]
Inside: Restoring browser windows, email text style, another Mac Defender alert
It’s been another exciting week in Mac land, with the Mac Defender malware I told you about last week getting more aggressive, but still completely manageable if you stay alert, informed, and follow my tips later in this newsletter. [continue reading…]
You’ve got a bunch of browser windows or tabs open–one for email, one for Facebook, your favorite news site, and a few articles you read halfway before getting distracted. You need to shut down or restart your computer but you’d like to open all those windows and tabs the next time you start your browser. Well, Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome all give you ways of doing that. [continue reading…]
Are you tired of changing the text style every time you write an email? Wouldn’t it be great to set your favorite font, text size, and color and have your email program use it every time you write an email?
Some email programs will let you save your favorite text style, but each program behaves differently. Gmail and Yahoo Mail will let you set a default text style for the emails you write but they unfortunately don’t let change the text size of emails you’re reading. On the other hand, Apple Mail lets you control the look of emails you read, but forces you to choose your favorite text style whenever you write an email. [continue reading…]
Inside: Your Mac’s birthday, the Dock, switching between users, Mac Defender alert
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When a Mac is shared by more than one person, it’s best to set up a separate account for each user. Even if you aren’t worried about privacy, it lets everyone have their own Documents folder, Desktop, applications on the Dock, web browser bookmarks and history, and many other preferences. It also lets you only give some accounts the ability to administer the computer (for example, install applications for everyone, create accounts, make system-wide changes).
You’ll often want to switch between user accounts and be able to return to your account with all the windows just as you left them. In this video I first show you how to set up your Mac so that account switching is simple and fast. Then I show you what it looks like to switch back and forth between two accounts. It’s very handy and, of course, Apple has added their usual bit of spiffy flair when you switch. [continue reading…]
Almost everything we read (8½ x 11″ paper, web pages, etc.) is taller than it is wide, yet most computer displays are wider than they are tall (and the newer wide screen ones are much wider). So often you’ll have unused screen space on the sides of your browser, while wishing you could stretch your web browser or word processor into that space at the bottom where the Dock is.
Fortunately it takes just a few seconds and a couple clicks to move your Dock to the side of your screen. Now you can stretch your windows to the bottom of your screen and often get another paragraph in view. [continue reading…]