Apple’s Year in Review 2011

by Tom Nelson With 2012 quickly approaching, it seems fitting to take a look back at what transpired over the past year. Because this is a Mac site, we’ll concentrate on Mac-related events. That leaves out some of the important events of the year, such as Charlie Sheen’s meltdown and the cell phone throwing championship. [...]

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Apple’s Year in Review 2011: The Top 10 Apple Events of 2011

by Tom Nelson With 2011 nearly over, we stepped into our time machine and turned back the months to find the top ten Apple events of the year. We didn’t limit the list to Apple itself; we looked at anything related to Apple, the Mac, and the Apple community. Our list is in chronological order, [...]

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Managing the Resume Feature in OS X Lion

by Tom Nelson Resume is one of the new features in OS X Lion. It’s meant to be a handy method to quickly return you to what you were doing in an application the last time you used it. Resume can be very useful; it can also be one of the most annoying of Lion’s [...]

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Share Windows 7 Files with OS X Lion

by Tom Nelson If you have a mixed network of PCs and Macs, then you will more than likely want to be able to share files between the two competing OSes. It might sound like you’ve got some sticky times ahead of you, to get two different OSes talking to each other, but in fact, [...]

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Setting Up Your New Mac

by Tom Nelson Opening the box your new Mac came in can be an exhilarating experience, especially if it’s your first Mac. The real fun comes after you power the Mac on for the first time. Although you’ll want to dive right in and start using your new Mac, it’s worth taking a few minutes [...]

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SaaS For Business: A Quick Guide To The Possibilities

by Tom Nelson and Mary O’Connor | PC Today, September 2011, Vol 9, Issue 9 Shopping for SaaS services is a bit like shopping for anything else. There are so many possibilities it can be a little overwhelming. We can’t tell you which services are right for you (and which ones aren’t), but we can [...]

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Organize Your Apple Mail With Mailboxes

by Tom Nelson and Mary F. O’Connor It seems embarrassingly obvious, but one of the easiest ways to keep your email under control is to organize it in folders, or as Apple Mail calls them, mailboxes. Instead of keeping everything in your Inbox, or piled into one or two mailboxes, you can organize your email [...]

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Take Control of Your Email in Mail

by Tom Nelson and Mary F. O’Connor If you don’t take control of your email, your email may take control of you. Even if you ignore spam (and we certainly try to), most of us get an awful lot of email every day. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, and it’s easy to overlook important messages. [...]

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Use Mail’s BCC Feature to Send Emails to a Group

by Tom Nelson and Mary F. O’Connor When you send an email message to a group of colleagues, privacy isn’t usually much of an issue. You all work together, so you know each other’s email addresses, and you mostly know what’s going on around the office, at least in terms of projects and news. To [...]

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Keep an Eye on Important Email Messages

by Tom Nelson and Mary F. O’Connor Sticky notes and to-do lists have their place, but sometimes there’s a better way to mark something for attention. In Apple Mail, you can use the flag feature to mark incoming (or any other) messages that need further action. To flag a message in Apple Mail, select the [...]

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