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How to Generate Strong Passwords

Good strong passwords to all your accounts are critical. Here’s a simple application that will help you generate secure passwords whenever you need them.

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Category: Apple Mac OS X

How to Take a Screen Shot of a Screen Saver

Learn how to take screen shots of your screen saver in action in this easy Mac OS X tutorial.

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Category: Apple Mac OS X

How to Take a Screenshot on the iPhone and iPad

Would you like to record a screenshot of what’s currently being displayed on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? Just follow these simple directions.

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Category: Apple iPhone

How to Force Quit Apps on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Learn how to get control of your phone back if an app on your iPhone or iPad gets stuck and locks up your phone.

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Category: Apple iPhone

How to Use Time Machine to Make Offsite Backups

Learn how to use Time Machine to make multiple backups of your machine so that offsite copies can be maintained and updated as needed.

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Category: Apple Mac OS X

Add Holiday, Sports and other Specialized Calendars to iCal on Your Mac and iPhone

Apple offers hundreds of free specialized calendars for iCal and the iPhone showing holidays for many countries, game dates for sports team and more. Learn how to use them!

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Category: Apple iCal

How to Boost Your iPhone Reception in Fringe Areas

If you’re only getting 1 or 2 bars of signal strength in outlying areas, then here’s an easy way to eek out 1 or 2 more bars in many cases.

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Category: Apple iPhone

Extract and Copy an Application’s Icon

Need to get a copy of an application’s icon on Mac OS X? Turns out there’s a really easy way to do it in Leopard and later releases.

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Category: Apple Mac OS X

Change the Default Event Duration for New iCal Events

iCal sets the default duration for new events you create to one hour. Perhaps a different default is more suitable for you. Here’s how to change the default event length.

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Category: Apple iCal

How to Enable Half Star Ratings in iTunes

Do you find rating songs with 1 to 5 stars too limiting? Learn how to assign ratings like 3.5 or 4.5 stars to songs with this quick trick.

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Category: Apple iTunes