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How to Create a Smart Folder in Mac OS

Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather...

How to Reclaim Precious Hard Drive Space with Monolingual on Your Mac

Do you speak Afrikaans? How about Assamesse? Chances are you don't. Well your Mac does a great job of offering these two languages and...

How to Share iCal Calendars Online

If your life revolves around a calendar, chances are that you probably would like to keep your family and friends updated about upcoming events....

How to Create a New Desktop in Mac OS Lion

In Mac OS Lion, Apple introduced Mission Control which is a mix of Spaces and Expose. In Mission Control you have the ability to create...

How to Create an External Lion Recovery Disk

If your Mac OS X Lion hard drive fails and you wish to restore a Time Machine backup to a hard drive without Lion,...

How to Get the Classic Layout in Mail for Mac OS Lion

Lion shipped with a slew of features that brought a lot of the iPad's user interface to the Mac, specifically Mac OS apps like...

How to Customize Finder’s Sidebar Items in Mac OS X

Do you frequent certain files and folders on your Mac and want to save some time? Customize the Finder Sidebar Finder in Mac OS sports a...

How to Align Mac OS Desktop Icons to the Grid

Have you ever found that moving icons around on your Mac's desktop leaves with an unaligned mess of shortcuts and files? This can also happen...

How to Control Startup Applications in Mac OS

Is your Mac booting up slowly? It could be that you are using the new Resume feature in Lion or you simply have a...

How to Back Up Your Mac with CarbonCopyCloner

In previous articles I've shown you how to back up your Mac with Time Machine and Super Duper, two fantastic approaches to safeguarding files...

How to Associate Your Apple ID with Your Mac in Lion

In Lion Apple introduced a new feature which allows users to associate their Apple ID's with their user accounts on the Mac. This new feature...

How to Use Custom Background Colors in Mac OS X Lion

One of Lion's new features brings custom colors to desktop backgrounds in Mac OS X. In previous versions you were only allowed to use one...

How to Change Mail’s Font in Mac OS X Lion

If you use Mac OS Xs Mail app to manage your email you may find the default font size for messages and the message...