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ILLUSTRATION BY I LOVE DUST iPhoto The basics of importing, sharing, and editing images, and using Photo Stream. IMPORTING & SHARING IMAGES When you string a USB cable between your [...]

How to Restore Your Old iWork Documents Q: I've heard that once you open and edit a Pages '09 file (or another kind of iWork '09 document) that file becomes [...]

The Case of the Missing Apple TV Movies Q: After a recent update, I switched on my Apple TV, prepared to watch a movie I had ripped from a DVD [...]

Get the Best Amazon Deal While discussing movies with a friend, I realized that I didn't own copies of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films. Hoping to remedy that, I dashed to [...]

Blurring Objects in iMovie '11 Q: I'm working on a just-for-fun movie in iMovie '11 that I'm going to put on YouTube. In one scene, you can see a car's [...]

Trot back to the 16th century and corner famed prognosticating monk Nostradamus, and it's quite likely that if you were to pose him the question 'Will those living in the [...]

Extract Voice and Text Messages From an iPhone Q: A Mac-using relative recently passed away, and we'd like to have copies of some of the SMS and voicemail messages on [...]

Create Calendar Events More Efficiently Q: My Mac runs Mountain Lion, and I have to fiddle with events after I create them in Calendar--changing all-day events to events that last [...]

Manage iPad Photos Q: My parents bought an iPad last year to use primarily when traveling, for email, and particularly to manage the photos they shoot. But the process is [...]

Share a Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Q: I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro. I control the iMac with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and I want to use [...]

Manually Configure an iCloud Email Account Q: My .Mac address works perfectly well on my iPhone and iPad but doesn't work in Mail on my MacBook Pro. I get login [...]

Understand the Apple TV, Mirroring, and Aspect Ratio Q: I have a new iPad and the most recent Apple TV. It seems like with the resolution the iPad is putting [...]

Deal with Spam When Mail Won't Q: I entered my iCloud email address on a site that was nothing but a spam generator. I've marked messages from this site as [...]

Flip Camcorders Are Down, but Not Out Q: I purchased a Flip MinoHD camera for each of my two daughters a few years ago. I want to continue to use [...]

Sync iCloud with Windows Outlook Q: My son-in-law has a PC and uses Outlook for Windows. He now has both an iPad and an iPhone and wants to sync the [...]

Hide Purchased iOS Apps Q: I've had an iPhone since the first model came out, and over time I've accumulated a lot of apps. When I look at the Purchased [...]

MobileMe Gallery Alternatives Q: I have a MobileMe picture gallery that's linked to my website. I have learned that MobileMe will cease to exist sometime in the next year, and [...]

Lion, Time Machine, and iPhoto Q: I recently installed Lion and dutifully backed up my hard drive with Time Machine. Then I opened iPhoto and, using the Time Machine interface, [...]

Share a Hotel Internet Connection Q: When I'm on the road, how can I create a wireless network on my MacBook that I can share with my iPad? A: You [...]

Death and iTunes Q: Someday--hopefully not today--I shall shuffle off this mortal coil, and then what will happen to my iTunes collection? Is there some way of transferring ownership of [...]

Identify Faces Faster in iPhoto Q: I just upgraded to iPhoto '11 and now have the daunting task of assigning face names to 24,000 faces in my iPhoto library. How [...]

The ubiquitous television set has grown up over the decades. No longer reliant on an antenna picking up a scant few local stations, modern TVs receive programming by the bucket [...]

Picture-in-Picture iChat Presentations Q: I'm scheduled to do a presentation with people thousands of miles away. They're Mac users, so I was hoping that I could use iChat. I want [...]

Transfer Angry Birds Saved Game Data Q: I lost all my Angry Birds (www.rovio.com) saved game data on my iPad. My girlfriend's iPad has just about the same number of [...]

End iPod Autoplay Q: I have a Mac and also a PC (running Windows 7), and while I like the Mac better, the one thing the two computers have in [...]

Split GarageBand Project into Multiple Tracks Q: I recently used GarageBand to record our church choir singing many songs. Trouble is, because I recorded all the songs at one time, [...]

Empty iPhoto's Stubborn Trash Q: My iPhoto trash contains 474 items. I've been trying to empty the trash but it just won't go away. Do you have any suggestions for [...]

Archive iPhone SMS Messages Q: Is there a way to archive iPhone text messages? And is it possible to archive messages from a single sender or to archive all messages [...]

Cure for the Common Double-Cap Q: I am a LOusy typist. I am FOrever hitting double-CAps when I type in MAil. Microsoft Word has an autocorrect function that SEems to [...]

Capturing iTunes Videos Q: Is there a way to burn videos you purchase from the iTunes Store to a DVD? I'm a teacher and buying a single episode to watch [...]

Speed Up iMovie Clips Q: While filming Weeds last year (where I play Dean Hodes), I borrowed a Flip pocket camcorder to record my makeup transformation. I wanted to edit [...]

Viewing Large Movies Online Q: I have a 1.75GB MPEG-4 Quick-Time movie file. If I subscribe to MobileMe and use iDisk to upload the movie, will friends and family be […]

* In September, Apple performed the now-yearly ritual of updating its iPod lineup in anticipation of the upcoming holiday season. Why? Apple sold 22.7 million iPods in the 2008 holiday […]

Disabling Safari 4's Image Cache Q: I've just noticed that Safari 4 has an image cache that stores a JPEG and PNG version of every Web page I visit. Is […]

Up until a year or so ago, camcorders were fairly bulky things. That has changed. Thanks to the development of camcorders that store their recordings on flash media and operate […]

Nearly three years ago, I got a bright idea: turn a spare 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo Mac mini into a media center, one that could play music, record and play […]

The world is going high-def, so isn't it about time to consider an HD camcorder? In a word, yes. Prices for these camcorders have dropped precipitously--you can now put HD […]

Document-Switching Shortcuts Q: When I used Windows, I could switch between open Microsoft word documents using a keyboard command. Can you offer any suggestions for more easily switching between documents […]

Keep it Down in There Given how early and often kids listen to music these days, damage to young ears is a big concern. Ultimate Ears' LoudEnough headphones offer a […]

Like puppies, children can be adorable even as they create chaos-splashing about in mud puddles or shrieking on the playground. But, also like their canine companions, kids at play can [...]

Where to Buy You have many choices to consider when you're shopping for a Mac. Apple Retail Stores Apple has made a massive retail push in recent years--both online and […]

Apple's iPod line has come a long way since the company's boxy 5GB model hit the market in late 2001. In the years since, Apple has added more substance, style, […]

In October 2005, Apple demonstrated its interest in selling video content alongside its digital music offerings by adding TV shows to the iTunes Store. Great as it might have been […]

Anyone who has launched an e-mail client to discover a glut of offers for dubious nostrums, bogus diplomas, and indelicate physical congress is well aware that spam--the junk mail that […]

Pity the modern worker. Back when our ancestors served their 60 hours a week lashed to lathes, coupled to conveyor belts, and harnessed to harvesters, it was impossible to take […]

When Steve Jobs introduced iTunes 7, he said that it was the biggest upgrade to the music program since it made its debut almost six years ago. Nobody argued. From […]

If you or your kids are headed back to school this fall, you'll need new gear--which is why we've assembled the following guide. We asked Christopher Breen to look at […]

We all seek our own holy grail of computing--a feature or shortcut that would make our lives so much easier, if only we knew where to find it. Well, now […]