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Tutorials

1. Upgrade your Mac Hard Drive (Direct Copy Method)

   2 Comments David Freeman - 19th March 2010 - Tutorials

   At some point, many Mac owners decide their hard drive just isn’t big enough. Too many movies, too much music, a life in photos, and so on. For some, the solution is to add an external hard drive. For iMacs in particular, this is a good option. After all, you’re usually not just picking up [...]

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2. Tutorial: How To Make All Your Album Art Show Up In iTunes

   14 Comments Kristofor Lawson - 11th March 2010 - Tutorials

   If you’re a music lover like me, you will likely have a wide variety of music in your iTunes library. Now as much as I love Apple and the iTunes store, often I feel the need to buy the physical CD and just import the music back into my iTunes. However when I do this [...]

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3. Tutorial: Boot a Mac From an External Hard Drive

   0 Comments David Freeman - 4th March 2010 - Tutorials

   Having an external hard drive that’s set up to boot into Mac OS X can come in handy.
   If your computer isn’t working properly, you can boot from it and do diagnostic testing.  Some kinds of backup process work best when you’re not booted from the drive you want to back up.  If you want to [...]

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4. Tutorial: Using Apple Mail To Access Your Gmail With IMAP

   18 Comments Kristofor Lawson - 25th February 2010 - Tutorials

   When setting up your mac for the first time one of the important aspects is getting your email set up correctly. Using Mail to access your email can improve productivity and allow you to make use of many of Apple’s cool mail features.
   Many people might be using MobileMe for their email, which is simple to [...]

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5. How-To: Set Up iPhone Tethering

   7 Comments Toby Nieboer - 9th December 2009 - Tutorials

   With Telstra’s recent announcement that they’ve caved in been successful in their negotations with Apple, all the major Australian carriers now offer tethering. If you’ve wondered how to set it up but never gotten around to finding out, this is the article for you.

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6. Tutorial: Mac OS X Dock Tweaks

   12 Comments mtblogbot - 26th November 2009 - Tutorials

   Hello MacTalkers and may I welcome you to the new series, ‘MacTalk Tutorials’
   Every week or so, I will be covering some of the most requested tutorials, plus some interesting ones. They may consist of a few small ones, or sometimes a more complex one. This week, I have a few basic tips which you can [...]

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7. Thursday How-To: Fixing Group-SMS sending as MMS (and more!)

   67 Comments Kieran McIlwain - 30th July 2009 - Guides, Tutorials

   One of the biggest gripes people had with the iPhone 3.0 software was the introduction of something Apple called “Group Mode” – that is, that an SMS sent to multiple recipients would be sent as an MMS.  In theory this might be handy, people can use reply-all and send responses to everybody involved.  However, carriers [...]

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8. Thursday How-To: Create a New User Account

   9 Comments Toby Nieboer - 2nd July 2009 - Guides, Tutorials

   Forum member ClockWork brings us this handy tutorial.

   Sometimes, if things don’t work the way they’re supposed to in Mac OS X, you can check if the problem is inside your User folder, or if the problem is System wide, or a Hardware problem.
   An easy way to check this is to create a new User Account [...]

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9. How To Put Your iPhone Into DFU Mode

   44 Comments Toby Nieboer - 11th June 2009 - Tutorials

   In the coming days you’re going to see a lot of mentions of DFU, or Device Firmware Update mode to give its full title. While you can update your iPhone firmware without it, many geeks consider putting their iPhone into DFU to be an essential step for a firmware update – it’s the equivalent [...]

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10. Thursday How-To: Organize Your Bills Using Bento 2

    7 Comments Toby Nieboer - 4th June 2009 - Guides, Tutorials

    Today we’re going to look at a simple way to keep your bills organized using Bento 2, the popular and powerful database software from the folks at FileMaker. This tutorial will show you how to set up a Library to keep a record of all your bills, and a Collection to organize the ones [...]

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