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It’s tax time, so lots of number crunching. If you are on a Mac, here is a quick way to run a calculation without opening up the Calculator app or digging out your calculator.  Head over to Spotlight (Command-Space), type in your numbers and under the Calculator line you will see your total.

Time Machine is the built-in backup that works with your Mac and external hard drive. It is easy to set up – connect your drive, tell Time Machine to use it and let the back up begin. Time Machine automatically backs up your entire computer including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, email messages, music, photos, [...]

You are attending a meeting and have changed your phone setting from ring tone to vibrate. Did you know that you can customize the vibration settings. Perhaps you would like to know when a family member is trying to reach you. The process is fairly easy to do. Select Settings Tap on Sounds You will [...]

Is one of your New Year’s Resolution’s to better manage your time and tasks? Well here is a great app for keeping you on task. Any.do integrates with your calendars reminding you of meetings and also syncs with your Google task list.  You can drag and drop tasks and add tasks by typing them in [...]

If you are using an older version of QuickBooks for Mac and would like to upgrade to QuickBooks for Mac 2013, there are a few things you need to check to be sure you can run this new version of software on your computer. Below please find which versions of QuickBooks for Mac are supported [...]

Collobos FingerPrint 2.1 (collobos.com) is both a Windows and Mac utility that allows your iPhone or iPad to print wirelessly to just about any printer. No app is involved and it will work even if your printer is not an iWireless Printer. All you do is install FingerPrint on your computer and the software will [...]

If you are using OS X Lion, there is a neat feature in Preview which will allow you to create and add a signature to a PDF document. Here is what to do to create your signature: Get a blank white piece of paper and using only black ink, create your signature on the paper. [...]

With the recent release of the new operating system Mountain Lion, it is good to do a little investigating before you install this new operating system. First in order to install Mountain Lion, you need to be sure you are using a MAC that is compatible and is running either OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) [...]

Last issue we went through the steps for backing up your iOS device. This time we will review the steps that you will need to take in case you need to do a Restore from iTunes. To restore information from a backup, use one of the following methods after connecting your iOS device to the [...]

You are probably syncing your iPad and iPhone to iTunes but you may only be syncing music. What about all those contacts on your phone as well as notes, documents, and so much more. There is a back-up function built in to iTunes which makes the process pretty simple. Use these steps to manually back [...]