Tips by Tony

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Posts Tagged ‘mac

07 Feb, 2011

Understanding the Mac’s green zoom (+) button

Posted by: Tony In: Tips

If you’ve switched from a Windows computer to the Mac, you may be confused or frustrated by the little green (+) button in the upper right corner of every application window. It’s called the zoom button, and it is not the same as the maximize button in MS Windows. Once you understand what the zoom button does and how it works, your confusion and frustration should come to an end.

11 Sep, 2009

Writing Tools for Mac OS X

Posted by: Tony In: Ideas & Inspiration

While you can certainly do serious writing with a word processing application (MS Word, OpenOffice, Pages, etc.,) there’s an entire class of application aimed specifically at the process of writing.

17 Apr, 2009

Archiving Old Emails in Apple Mail

Posted by: Tony In: Tips

Having too many emails in your company email account can be a problem. Not only can Mail become sluggish, but nightly backups by your IT department will take longer and require more storage space. This tutorial will explain how to move emails from your server account to your local computer.


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