Category: help

How To Customize Your Background- Mac

Difficulty Level (1/10-Easy) Is your do cute enough for a magazine cover? Do you think your kid’s sports play deserves to be on the cover of the newspaper? Well, while the past two situations are probably not likely, you can showcase situations like these on your mac’s background. It’s easy and it’s fun, so I laid out the basics for you beginners below. Let...

Should my family have separate iTunes accounts? Can we keep our purchases?- Reader Q & A

An anonymous reader asked: “My kid has an iPhone and her iTunes account uses my email address and credit card. I never noticed until I attempted to create an account for my new iPad. Should we share accounts, or separate? Can I transfer our previous purchases to the new account?”A: This is a common situation in families. As for what you should do, it...

How NOT To Share Everything You Do on Facebook

Do you read a lot of articles online? Do you watch a lot of videos? Do you LOVE a Facebook game? If you participate in one of these activities along with thousands of others and I’m friends with you on Facebook I know, because the developers of these apps and sites build autosharing into their applications for the free publicity to your friends. But,...

Why Does My iphone Volume Not Go All The Way Down? Answer

This question comes from a reader. “Why doesn’t the volume on my iphone go all the way down?”. Here’s the simple answer. There are two types of volume on your iphone. You have your application volume, which is the volume for music, videos, and applications, and you have your ringer volume. Each is mutable, and adjustable. But, you will notice that the ringer never...

101 Uses For Old Computers- Part one

So you just got a new computer? Hopefully a Mac? If you’re reading this, you’re probably trying to repurpose your old computer. Don’t let it sit idle. It isn’t useless. In fact, over the next four months I am going to offer you one hundred and one useful ideas for how to use that old hunk of junk. Today I present to you the...