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TUAW Help Line: holiday gift questions & answers

by Michael Rose (Dec 25th, 2011)

The goose is cooked, the cookies crumbled, the wrapping paper thrown away and the relatives released to their neutral corners. Finally, you can get down to the post-holiday fun of setting up your new iPad, or transferring your data from your old PC to your new Mac! Unfortunately, the end of a ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Extending your AirPort wireless

by Justin Esgar (May 31st, 2011)

Ahhh ... Tuesday -- what a glorious day, and a perfect day to talk about AirPort wireless setups. For this week's Ask TUAW video, here's a short piece on how to extend your wireless network. We're using an AirPort Extreme, but the steps are the same for the Express. The video is in the second ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Migration Assistant

by Justin Esgar (Mar 22nd, 2011)

Today we discuss the Mac OS X Migration Assistant. Joe asks, "What's the best way to transfer my old data on my old MacBook to my new MacBook Pro without erasing new software on the MBP like the new iLife suite?" Well Joe, you and many other TUAW readers are going to learn about the Migration ...

Ask TUAW video edition: Playing video formats

by Justin Esgar (Jan 25th, 2011)

Hey everyone, it's week two of Ask TUAW's video edition. This week we help Nolan play a WMV file and discuss the options that are out there to play all sorts of video files. Remember, you can leave us questions in the comments! The video is on the next page. Mentioned in this ...

Ask TUAW: Outlook 2011 attachment problems, Apple TV alternatives, deleting apps and more

by Chris Ullrich (Dec 17th, 2010)

Welcome back to another edition of Ask TUAW. Each week this column will feature questions from readers and answers by the TUAW team. If you have questions for the following week's column, drop them in the comments, and I will do my best to get to them. When asking a question, please include ...

Xcode Tip: Updating your documentation

by Erica Sadun (Oct 22nd, 2009)

It appears that the Dev Center at Apple just updated its documentation set today. If you're using Xcode 3.2 and you want to update your documentation, you might be looking in the wrong place. Before 3.2, you used to update your documentation in the Developer Documentation window (Help > Developer ...

Ask TUAW: Recovering pictures, updating Facebook, iPhone battery life and more

by Chris Ullrich (Feb 25th, 2009)

Once again, it's time for another edition of Ask TUAW: the place where we try to answer all of your Mac and Apple-related questions. This week we're taking questions about recovering pictures from corrupted compact flash cards, Twitter for the iPhone, extending iPhone battery life and more. As ...

Ask TUAW: Preventing automounting, Exchange support, printing selections, and more

by Mat Lu (Feb 18th, 2009)

For this edition of Ask TUAW we've got questions about preventing an external partition from automounting, printing text selections, getting email from an Exchange server, syncing the Address Book with Google contacts, and more. As always, your suggestions are welcome. Questions for next week ...

Force help to be more helpful

by Aron Trimble (Feb 10th, 2009)

Being the Kool-aid sipping, Apple fanatic that you are, I'm sure you have already updated to the latest versions of iLife and iWork, right? If you have then it's not unlikely for you to be experiencing the same kind of problem that Rob Griffiths over at Macworld is dealing with as well. Following ...

TUAW Tip: use the Help menu to search Safari bookmarks and history

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 24th, 2008)

Note: This tip is Leopard-only, sorry Tiger holdouts. The Command-? trick is easily one of my favorites among the less-ballyhooed feature expansions of Leopard. If you missed that one, it allows you to search for menu items in any application by pulling down the "Help" menu, which can be triggered ...

iPhone 101: A user guide to take with you

by Robert Palmer (Jul 9th, 2008)

If you're going to be a new iPhone 3G owner this week, you might want to make a note of this site to help you get acquainted with your new mobile device. Apple has a guide to the iPhone available at http://help.apple.com/iphone/guide that you can view directly in MobileSafari, so you'll always have ...

TUAW Tip: Use Help to select menu items in Leopard

by Mat Lu (Feb 8th, 2008)

Over at Mac OS X Hints I recently ran into this doozy of a hint that I somehow missed on its first go around. Basically the idea is to capitalize on a great new feature in Leopard's help. You can get to any menu item without your mouse by activating the help menu with the keyboard shortcut ? + ? ...

Leopard screensaver, Help menu video leaked

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2007)

When I posted the new System Preferences pane in Leopard earlier this week, I was a little disappointed to see that while the desktop had changed (here it is online, if you want to make it your own already-- thanks, Ryan D!), the screensaver had not. I figured this is because Apple wasn't bringing ...

Adium devs need YOU

by Michael Rose (Mar 8th, 2007)

Adium 1.0.1 is a great (and long-awaited) release for the free & open-source multiplatform chat client. The work, however, continues, and the Adium developers are politely asking for your help. First, there are a slew of items that need user feedback, and you can do that, right? Second, ...

Apple TV and iPhone forums open at Apple Discussions

by David Chartier (Jan 16th, 2007)

Did your brand new iTV just go on the iFritz? Or possibly your iPhone took a cue from Mr. Jobs and prank called Japa- Wait, they aren't out yet? Well, maybe these two shiny new pre-release Apple Discussion forums, one for the Apple TV and another for the iPhone, will still come in handy for ...