Mac Quick Tips

The task of backing up your system is virtually effortless with Time Machine. We’ll show you how to restrict Time Machine from backing up selected folders or files, saving space and time.

Preview is a powerful application, allowing you to manipulate PDFs in many ways. In this tip, we’ll show you how to merge the contents of two separate PDF files.

Getting rid of sensitive data in a secure manner - these days we all have to do it. We’ll show you how to delete items securely from your Trash and from an external drive.

Learning and accessing "special" or international characters is simple with the Keyboard Viewer built into Mac OS X.

While browsing the web, you may find yourself ending up with multiple browser windows, each with multiple tabs. Let us show you how easy it is to manage all of those open webpages using Safari.

Working with PDFs on a Mac is even more powerful with Leopard. With Preview, you now have the ability to easily annotate documents. Watch this tip to find out more.

iChat is great for instant text and video-based communication. What you might not have explored is iChat’s ability to send large files directly to your buddies.

Mac OS X has many built-in ways to interact with and create PDF files. When browsing the web, you can now view PDFs right in your browser - no need to launch a separate application.

Mac OS X’s built-in dictionary can be accessed in a variety of ways, so it’s readily available to you. Added bonus: Dictionary also now pulls in information from Wikipedia.

You turn to Spotlight to quickly find things on your computer. Did you know that you can also use Spotlight for simple calculations and to get dictionary definitions?

Keynote builds beautiful presentations. With a variety of different export options, you can be sure that your presentation is ready to share no matter what type of system you’re using.

Apple’s Mail is not only a great app to manage your email and to-do lists, you can also use it to manage the RSS feeds you subscribe to.

When sorting through multiple files in a folder, you may have a hard time identifying the file of interest without launching an application to open it. With Quick Look, you can look inside any document without launching an application.

It’s easy to start an interactive screen sharing session to see and control other Macs on your network. Here’s how.

Leopard introduces the Stack to the Dock, providing you with a unique way to organize documents and applications. If you’d like to create your own custom stack, check out this tip.