From the monthly archives:

March 2009

How to Choose Your Perfect Mac

by Matt on March 24, 2009

Over the past few months, many people have written in asking for advice on how to buy a Mac. To be honest, most people are looking for me to help them convince themselves on an “up-sell.” For example, there are plenty of people who want to know why they should purchase a MacBook Air instead [...]

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Save Any File or Screen As a PDF in Mac OS X

by Matt on March 17, 2009

If you have been using a Mac since the first days of Mac OS X, you likely know that Apple hid one of the most useful tools in the “Print” window: the ability to save any document or any screen as a PDF! As long as you can print what you’re looking at, you can [...]

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Share Your iTunes Library with All Users on Your Computer

by Matt on March 13, 2009

I’ve had several people ask me over the past few months how they can share or synchronize their iTunes libraries across all the user accounts on their home computers. This is a complicated affair, and there are different ways to accomplish these goals, depending on what the user ultimately wants. At this point, I don’t [...]

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Quickly View a Map of Your Address Book Contacts

by Matt on March 6, 2009

I know that some people never use Apple’s Address Book. I started using it years ago simply because I wanted to have all of my contacts sync between my Mac and my Bluetooth-enabled phone. Today, though, it seems many people have an iPhone, iPod, or some other device that they can put their contacts on. [...]

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Put Safari 4 Tabs Back Where They Belong

by Matt on March 4, 2009

For those of you who have not yet played with Safari 4, Apple has released a beta version of the new web browser for Mac OS X. I was going to tell you that I like the browser so much that I have switched to it full-time from Firefox, but I’m not quite there: I [...]

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March Call for New Posts

by Matt on March 3, 2009

First, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for a successful February. The site received some really good questions, and I hope I was able to provide some helpful answers.
As always, please write in to ask any questions that you have. I try to answer as many general questions as I can, but [...]

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