Apple’s new Reminder’s App in Mountain Lion (and iOS 6) is a great way to store reminders. However if you need to share your reminders with someone who does not have a Mac running Mountain Lion, or an iOS device you are stuck, as Apple does not provide any way to make a hard copy of a reminders list in the App. In this article I will show you a quick and simple workaround to make a hard copy of your reminders.
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Rather than use the mouse to browse to a location to open or save a particular file, try to learn these handy keyboard shortcuts instead to save time and make you more productive when opening or saving a file.
Spacebar – View the selected item in Quick Look
⌘+D – changes focus to your Desktop
⌘+Shift+A – Changes focus to your Applications directory
⌘+Shift+H – changes focus to your Home directory
⌘+Shift+N – Creates a ...
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Keyboard shortcuts are the easiest way to do things faster, but with the wide variety of software we all use it’s hard to remember all the different shortcuts. CheatSheet – Stefan Fuerst is great free utility that shows you the available shortcuts of the active application after holding the ⌘ (Command Key) for a few seconds.
Keyboard Shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity in frequently used Applications for commands that ...
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It is always a good idea to disable automatic logins, so a user must enter a password to gain access to your Mac. This by itself does not make your data 100% secure as they can still access your data by removing the hard disk, but it is likely to deter the casual thief.
If you lose your notebook and you are lucky to have someone honest finds it, they need a way to contact you. Even though you may have ...
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With the latest release of Mac OS X, 10.8 Mountain Lion you can now dictate short pieces of text. Anywhere you can enter text on your Mac, you can now dictate it. In this article I will show you how to enable dictation in Mountain Lion and show some ways in which I think it can be useful and hopefully enable you to be more productive.
By default Dictation is turned off, so you first have to enable it. You ...
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1Password from Agilebits is a password, form-filling and identity manager that fully integrates with your browser.
In the video above I take a look at :
1. Why you might need a password manager like 1Password.
2. A quick overview of the key features of 1Password and how the Password Manager works in 1Password.
3. How to use the 1Password Keyboard shortcuts and Safari Bookmarks.
The key 1Password Keyboard shortcuts are;
⌘\ {Command + Backslash}
Automatically logs you in to the website that ...
Continue Reading →Congratulations if you have bought, or about to buy your first Mac. This article sets out some great resources to make the transition from Windows to Mac as easy and seamless as possible. It will generally take most people about a week to get used to the Mac Operating System (OS). At the time of writing this article the present release of the Mac OS is 10.8 Mountain Lion.
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Continue Reading →The purpose of this article is to explain how to change the default file save location in iCloud supported Apps from iCloud to local folders in Mountain Lion.
One of Mountain Lion’s new features is the ability to save files from supported applications to Apple’s iCloud servers, and then synced to other Macs and iOS devices that use the same iCloud ID. At the moment only a few applications support iCloud document synchronisation, but these will grow as more 3rd Party developers ...
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