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I switched! I recently switched my desktop from WinXP to Tiger, and later upgraded to Leopard. Although the basics are simple, there are some habits I was accustomed to in Windows that needed to be UN-learned for OS X.

The most electrifying lesson was that, unlike in Windows where dragging a folder onto another folder merges the contents, in OS X, dragging a folder onto another folder actually replaces the entire folder. This was obviously a habit that needed to be un-learned immediately. Continue Reading »

I’m often asked “Why do I  have to close each message and return to the list to read mesages?  I want to read through open messages in Gmail.  There is a shortcut which allows you to move through open messages. Open the first message, to archive the current message and move to the next message, click on the left bracket “[” key. The next message will be open. You are not returned to the list of messages.

Before archiving, use the other keyboard shortcuts to mark the message. Just press “S” to mark the message with a ’star’ if you still need to take action or follow-up later. This is the same as ‘flagging’ a message in Outlook or other email applications.

Ever wish you had an extra phone line or two? Well, maybe just an extra number would do the trick for you. Applying for a job and need a message phone number? Work-at-home entrepreneur who needs an office line? Don’t want to give out your cell number? Take a look at GrandCentral.com’s offerings. It’s a free service for controlling your voice mail messages and various phone lines. Continue Reading »

MS Office 2007 uses the extension of DocX as a default to save Word documents. Unfortunately, unless one has MS Office 2007, these documents can not be opened automatically — at least not yet. Here are a few of the things you need to know. Continue Reading »

I’m not a whiner! But I had a tough week at the end of December. My site was down or so slow it might as well have been down for more than eight days! Multiple daily email messages to and from tech support resulted only in credits to my hosting costs and thanks for ‘being so patient.’ Phone calls resulted in the same. It was determined that my site was on an overloaded server and needed to be moved. Fine, when could that be accomplished I asked. Well, it turned out there were a lot of people who needed to be moved and it might take a month!!!! No kidding! Continue Reading »

Before you try the iTouch January upgrade, read on. There are a lot of questions regarding troubleshooting this upgrade and many users report issues. To avoid the problems these users had, follow these steps. Continue Reading »