Weekly video tips from the Apple experts
One of the features introduced with OS X Lion was Mission Control—a feature that can be useful, but is often ignored by Mac users. In the next few minutes I’ll show you ways to put Mission Control to good use in the hope that you’ll find reasons to incorporate it into your computing life.
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Curious about what you can do with text on your iPhone or iPad? Macworld associate editor Serenity Caldwell offers a few tips in this week's Macworld video.
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If you have a lot of files and folders to manage in OS X—and who doesn't?—there's a really handy utility called Hazel () that can help. It enables you to automate all kinds of file-management chores, from copying and moving files to renaming them, importing them in to apps like iTunes and iPhoto, or running them through AppleScripts and Automator workflows. Here's a brief introduction to how it works.
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Sometimes you need to access your home Mac while you’re not nearby—or maybe you have a Mac mini hooked up to an HDTV, or a Mac running as a server on your network. For all of these occasions, and many more, you can turn to OS X’s built-in screen-sharing functionality to quickly and easily connect to those machines from another Mac. Let’s run through the basics of how to set up screen sharing and start using it.
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If you read my review of Apple’s third-generation iPad, you’ll find a video overview I did of the new tablet. We’re including that same video here, so that Macworld Video subscribers can enjoy this up-close look at the latest iPad.
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Here at Macworld, we love launcher utilities, which let you find and open files, folders, applications, and more using the keyboard. In this week's video, I show you some tips for using my favorite launcher, LaunchBar, to be more productive. I focus here on LaunchBar basics and some everyday tasks LaunchBar makes easier. In my next video, I'll show you some more-advanced tips and tricks.
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I love Siri on my iPhone 4S, and I’m hoping full-fledged Siri support will arrive on the Mac with Mountain Lion. Until then, however, I can still talk to my Mac to get it to take actions, and you can too—thanks to Speakable Items and the Speech pane in System Preferences. This quick screencast will help you get started with barking orders that your Mac will actually listen to.
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