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| TIPS & TRICKS ISSUES & ANSWERS |
Who’s Zooming Who (or What is Phishing)? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tom Merritt, CNET editor, explains a common email scamming technique and how to it. avoid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 Lion tips and tricks |
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Not everything you do on your Mac requires a heavy-duty application. For those smaller tasks, Mac OS X features Dashboard. Dashboard provides access to several fun and functional, mini applications called widgets. Dashboard includes widgets for some of your Mac applications, such as Address Book and iCal, which allow you to access your contacts and view your iCal events, respectively, without having to switch over to the full application. You can add more widgets to Dashboard and even create your own widgets. Apple has a nice Mac 101 page coving Dashboard. (10.5, 10.6, 10.7) |
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Test the speed of your internet connection. Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 |
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| How to scoop the brains out of a Windows PC and dump them in your Mac in one step |
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| Parallels has introduced a tool that it calls Transporter. It makes the task of migrating a Windows system to a bootable Parallels Desktop virtual disk image possible. You end up with your PC running in Windows on your Mac. With Lion, Apple also introduced a Migration Assistant that will pull in data from a PC automatically. <MORE> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apple’s Software Update – Pros and Cons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There are pros and cons to using Apple’s Software Update. As a rule, I used to recommend turning it off to avoid updates that create havoc (yes, even updates from Apple). But now that we are seeing some malware or viruses on the Mac, Software Update offers a great deal of protection. These security updates begain with Snow Leopard but now reach back to Leopard as well. |
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