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SMB and Outlook Connections in Apple OS X Mavericks

on October 23, 2013 in Apple, Technology, Troubleshooting

Tweet   After the pain that I have had in the past establishing SMB or Outlook connections after Apple OS upgrades, I was little gun-shy to install Mavericks this morning.  But, after searching the internet for people having problems (and not finding any) I decided to take the plunge. Well, I’m very happy to be able […]

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Send to iPhone Missing in Apple Maps

on October 23, 2013 in Apple, Technology, Troubleshooting

Tweet   Send to iPhone Missing in Apple Maps?  You’re not alone. At the top of the new Apple Maps app, you should see a little arrow allowing you to share directions from Maps straight to your iPhone.  The link (if it’s working) looks like this: However, when I first fired up Apple Maps, I […]

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The tabs that we need to get rid of

How to Revert Your Gmail Inbox

on August 20, 2013 in Technology

Tweet   I gave the new tabbed Gmail a try.  A very brief try.  But, after the 3rd or 4th time that it mis-categorized an important email as a promotion, I decided that enough was enough.  It was time to revert my inbox back to the old version. So, lets see how to do this. […]

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Other iPad Storage Space

Fix: iPad Storage Not Adding Up

on August 19, 2013 in Troubleshooting

Tweet   iPad storage not adding up? I have a 16GB iPad that should have had plenty of space on it.  However, when I tried to download a movie, iTunes said that I didn’t have enough storage to complete the task.  Sound familiar?  I bet it’s an issue like that one that brought you here. Sadly, […]

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Apple TV Conflicts with Xbox and Bluray

on March 16, 2013 in Apple

I love my Apple TV. My kids love our Xbox.  Okay…maybe I do too. But I recently thought that they were all breaking at the same time.  The Apple TV was skipping like a scratched DVD.  The Xbox wouldn’t work.  Even my Blu-ray player wouldn’t play disks.  It was like an entertainment Armageddon. My setup […]

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How Do I Turn Off My Apple TV?

on March 16, 2013 in Apple

How do you turn off an Apple TV?  Sounds like a problem that you shouldn’t have to Google.  But…I did.  And if you’re reading this, then you probably did too. Since the Apple TV doesn’t have a power button, the solution, though simple, is not as intuitive as you might assume. So, how do you […]

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Organizing iPhone Apps

My Method For Organizing My iPhone Icons

on March 1, 2013 in Apple

I love my iPhone.  I hate trying to organize the apps. I have tried laying the apps in a frequency-of-use order, which didn’t work for me because it was too subjective.  I then tried to put as many as I could into conceptual folders…which I hated because I was constantly digging through similarly titled folders. […]

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Find the Birthday Subscription

Stop Facebook Birthday Announcements on Mac OSX

on February 16, 2013 in Apple

The other day I allowed my phone to sync to Facebook and update my contacts.  It’s pretty nice, actually, because now my friends’ profile pics get loaded into my phone automatically.  Sweet. The day after allowing it, however, I began getting really annoying birthday announcements on my Mac.  In the upper right hand corner, these […]

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Solution – OS X Lion Thumbnail Slider Missing or Not Working

on September 12, 2012 in Apple, Troubleshooting

In OS X Lion, I was very disappointed to see that they took the thumbnail resize slider out of Finder windows in the default install.  Thankfully, there is a simple solution…to that initial problem. The slider is a part of what OS X refers to as the Status Bar.  To re-enable the status bar, all you need […]

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How to Display CSS or HTML Code on Your WordPress Blog

on August 31, 2012 in Blogging, Tutorials, Web Design

Have you ever wondered how different websites that you visit will display color-coded HTML and CSS code inside their blog posts?  Me too!  When I tried, weird things would happen, and it certainly wouldn’t just be color-coded all by itself. Today, I decided to figure it out.  So I waded through the options for displaying […]

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