I did some research because I wasn't sure and didn't want to give out any bad information. This is what I found out.
On the new machines don't use anything with alcohol, ammonia or strong solvents. The safest thing is plain distilled water. If that doesn't work, a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and distilled water.
Don't put it directly on the screen. Use a microfiber cloth, an old t-shirt, or some other very soft cloth. If you have a piece of cloth about the size of the screen it is best because it won't leave streaks. The cloth should be moist, not wet. Wipe in circular motion. Don't press your fingers into the cloth or screen.
Oh, and by-the-way, you can use this on your iPhone or iPod as well.
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( 2.9 / 53 )One of the things I like about my Mac and my Mac apps is how they integrate together so well. Especially when it is the apps that Apple itself creates. An example of that is an element in Safari 4 called Cover Flow. Cover Flow lets you flip through websites you have visited as easily as you flip through album art in iTunes. Cover Flow displays your bookmarks and history as large images, and you can pick out a website instantly.
The quickest way to access this is to click on the Search History button in the bottom right corner of the Top Sites Window.
However, if you know you want to look for a page you visited a week ago, this method might be too slow. In that case, click on the open book icon at the left end of the Safari Bookmarks bar. That will open a History of all the sites you have visited in the past month.
You can choose any day from that list by clicking on it and, when the web sites pop up, you can page through them using the horizontal scroll bar or your mouse. If you are using a trackpad you can swipe left and right.
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( 3 / 66 )The "funny marks" look like this. I'm talking about the Mail email application here.
They show up because your email app can't find your mail. One real good reason for that is that you have an iPhone that is also getting your mail and your computer and your iPhone can't receive mail at the same time. Usually when you see those marks you can get rid of them by hitting the "Get Mail" button. Then your mail will be sent to your mail box.
But, here is something I have discovered in the year I have had an iPhone. Sometimes messages will go to my iPhone that never show up on my computer. Therefore, I have to be very careful about deleting messages from my phone if they are important, until I make sure they also exist on my computer. If I have to keep a copy of a message, or provide a detailed response, I much prefer to do it on the computer rather than my phone.
And here is one more quick tip. If you get a pop up box telling you that you need to re-enter the password for one of your email accounts, you can do that, but if you don't remember what it is and you don't want to look it up, just quit out of Mail and then open it back up. Almost always that will take care of the problem.
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( 2.8 / 48 )What is the difference between “backup software” such as SuperDuper! ($27.95) and Carbon Copy Cloner (donation ware); and Mac OS X 10.5’s Time Machine?
Backup Software
Backup Software will provide failover support for the all-too-common case where things fail in a pretty catastrophic way, such as when a drive fails, or your system becomes un-bootable. The software accomplishes this by creating a fully bootable copy of your source drive, current to the most recent time you backed up your machine using the software.
Recovery is near immediate, even if the original drive is completely unusable, because you can start up from your backup and continue working.
You can take your backup to a totally different Macintosh, start up from it, and work while your failed Macintosh is in the shop… then, when it comes back all fresh and shiny, restore things and keep working.
Time Machine
Time Machine lets you step backward in time in order to access a file that was subsequently changed or deleted. With this purpose in mind Time Machine performs an hourly backup, saving those files that have undergone change within the preceding hour. Time Machine preserves every file backed up in the last twenty-four hours, then one instance of a backed up file for each day in the most recent week, then one instance of a backed up file for each week.
When the Time Machine volume becomes full, the oldest files will be pruned to make space for new files. What is great about Time Machine is that it gives you a significantly increased likelihood of being able to access information that has, either intentionally or unintentionally, been erased from your internal drive. You can not reboot your system from Time Machine.
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( 2.8 / 39 )Pages is the word processing application that is Mac specific. It comes as part of iWork (along with Numbers and Keynote). I love using it instead of Microsoft Word for a lot of reasons. It is easy to use, works beautifully with image placement, and all the built-in tips and short cuts work well with it.
One neat thing you can do is very quickly make your own template for projects. Here is one I use for an invoice and the way I set it up so that it is consistent on every page.
Just as an example, here is some text that might be on the first page of my invoice document.
In this state, it does not represent me or my company as a professional entity.
To change that I need the equivalent of stationary. I first designed a logo that I could copy and paste into pages. It doesn't matter what application you use to design the logo.
Open pages and click on View in the toolbar and choose Show Layout. You will see the Header and Footer areas on the page. (You can also find them by just clicking in the area you know they occupy and the field will appear.)
The Header and Footer areas will adjust size to fit whatever you insert. I wanted to first have a page number that was set to the right so I clicked on Insert from the toolbar and chose Auto Page Number and chose place on the right.
Then I hit return and clicked on center and did a copy and paste with my logo.
For the Footer I entered address, phone, fax, etc.
Now my template is complete and I can create as many pages for an invoice as I need. I keep it in a file and enter data directly on the form and then print it, but I could choose to print up blanks of the form and run the data on those blanks. It seems to me that wastes ink.
That's all there is to it.
Nancy
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