by John | Feb 16, 2011 | Computers, General, Macintosh, Tips & Tricks
by John Pieza I am occasionally asked about making the mouse cursor or arrow larger because some folks find it difficult to locate. You can do it through System Preferences. Go the the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of your screen and choose System Preferences....
by John | Feb 8, 2011 | Computers, Macintosh, Tips & Tricks
by John Pieza Today’s tip has no practical value whatsoever, but it is a fun one. There is a yellow button in the upper-left corner of just about every window on the Mac, used to minimize the window. If you click on the yellow button the Mac uses a genie effect...
by John | Feb 7, 2011 | Computers, Macintosh, Tips & Tricks
by John Pieza Sometimes when I am working on a document I have to get up and leave, but I’m not sure if I’ve saved it or not. A quick glance at the red close button shows me the status of the document. When you look at the close button in the upper-left...
by John | Feb 4, 2011 | iOS, iPhone, iPod, Tips & Tricks
by John Pieza My wife just confessed to me that she just discovered the iPhone camera’s zoom feature. I was not surprised since the location of the zoom control is not readily apparent. The zoom feature is not available on the original iPhone, but on all the...
by John | Feb 2, 2011 | Computers, Macintosh, Tips & Tricks
by John Pieza I was at a client’s this week and was asked to permanently set the text size in Safari to be as large as possible. We went to the Safari menu and chose Preferences. In the Preferences window we clicked on Appearance in the toolbar and saw this: We...
