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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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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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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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Enable Double-Tap to Click in Mac OS X Lion

on February 12, 2012 in Apple

There are actually quite a few things that I find irritating with Mac OS X Lion, but one of the big ones is how they changed the double-tap function of the trackpad.  It no longer defaults to the ability to click and drag items or highlight text.  That functionality was moved to the 3-finger gesture. […]

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Fix Your Problem Connecting to SMB

on August 10, 2011 in Apple

Update: No issues after the Mavericks upgrade In my recent post about Mac OS X Lion, I spoke a little bit about my SMB connection problem when connecting to a Windows File Server.  Well, it’s a happy day, because my IT guy has found a solution to the problem!  So, I hope this post helps […]

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Lion OS X Review

on August 2, 2011 in Apple

All you people out there that drink the Kool Aid and are going to hate me for giving anything that Apple did less than a 5-star rating aren’t going to like this, but I’m going to say it anyway.  I typically love Apple products, have two iMacs, an iPad, and an iPhone, and, despite my […]

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