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Ask TUAW Video Edition: Airport Breakdown!

by Justin Esgar (Apr 19th, 2011)

Happy Tuesday!!! Dave is a nice boyfriend who purchaed an AirPort Extreme for his girlfriend's birthday in order to help her. While the Extreme solved her printing/backup issues, he wanted to know about playing music through it. Today we discuss the different AirPort base stations and show Dave ...

Ask TUAW: iPad browser refreshing, iPhone headphones, laptop upgrades and more

by Ask TUAW (Apr 13th, 2011)

Welcome to Ask TUAW, your favorite weekly question-and-answer column. Now, we can never have too many questions, so please, go to the comments of this post and ask away. To get fabulous answers, we need your fabulous questions. You can also email your questions directly to ask [at] tuaw.com, or ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Cloning Data

by Justin Esgar (Apr 12th, 2011)

Douglas asks how to upgrade his hard drive and clone his Mac and Bootcamp data to the new one. We discuss new hard drives, enclosures, and cloning processes. Some resources for everyone: Carbon Copy Clone - More Info SuperDuper - More Info WinClone - Download Norton Ghost - More ...

Ask TUAW: Apple pricing, which cat is which, and laptop batteries you can't replace

by Ask TUAW (Apr 4th, 2011)

Ask TUAW Video Edition: PDF and Scripting

by Justin Esgar (Mar 29th, 2011)

Andrew asked us about how to have a folder convert documents to PDF format so that he can sync them to his Dropbox. Today's show goes into how to use Automator and AppleScript to do some scripting, and we're going to demonstrate an iPad app that will convert documents for you on your ...

Ask TUAW: iPhone US visitors, RAM upgrades, iPad buying advice

by Ask TUAW (Mar 28th, 2011)

In case you didn't know, the 2011 edition of the Great American Pastime starts Thursday the 31st. I'll be watching MLB.tv on my AppleTV -- and my iPhone and my iPad. Baseball everywhere! Awesome. MLB's television broadcast rules black out home team games via MLBtv, unfortunately, so I can't ...

Ask TUAW: Spring Has Sprung Edition

by Ask TUAW (Mar 24th, 2011)

Hello all! Welcome to the 'Spring has Sprung' edition of Ask TUAW, your favorite question-and-answer column. Now that many of you have your iPad 2s/are in line to get them/hope to see them show up eventually, we'll be answering some questions (and not answering others, because sometimes even Ask ...

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: The iPad 2 is Here! Edition

by Ask TUAW (Mar 14th, 2011)

The iPad 2 is finally here! In honor of Apple's super-gadget, we're having an iPad 2 edition of Ask TUAW again this week! Now, we can never have too many questions, so if you have anything you'd like to know about your new iPad or the one you're going to buy as soon as they're back in stock, ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: bulk emailing

by Justin Esgar (Mar 8th, 2011)

Jerry writes to us this week asking how to send mass emails and have them personalized. Software shown this week: MaxBulk Mailer - retails for US$50-60 dollars Remember, you can leave us questions in the comments! The video is on the next page. ...

Ask TUAW: The iPad 2 Is Almost Here! Edition

by Ask TUAW (Mar 7th, 2011)

The iPad 2 is almost here, and in honor of Apple's latest gadget, we're having an iPad 2 edition of Ask TUAW this week! We got a few interesting queries from last week's post, but this is going to get mighty boring without your questions about the iPad 2, which will be released on Friday! Here's ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Syncing Music to iPad

by Justin Esgar (Mar 1st, 2011)

This week, Cynthia has a question about syncing music to an iPad that she shares with her husband, who she claims wants to relive high school. Don't stop believin'! Remember, you can leave us questions in the comments! The video is on the next page. ...

Ask TUAW: Wait, is this a leap year? Edition

by Ask TUAW (Feb 28th, 2011)

Just to clear that up, no there is no February 29 this year, but 2012 is another story. Welcome to this week's edition of Ask TUAW -- everyone's favorite Mac and iOS Q&A and advice column. We got a few interesting queries from last week's post, but this is going to get mighty boring without ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Time Machine over a network

by Justin Esgar (Feb 22nd, 2011)

This week, Jude writes in and asks about using a home theater Mac mini as a Time Machine location for his MacBook Pro. We show him how to do this with some tweaking to his MacBook Pro. In the video, we used this code to put into Terminal.app: sudo defaults write ...

Ask TUAW: Presidents Day Edition

by Ask TUAW (Feb 21st, 2011)

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Presidents Day Edition of Ask TUAW -- everyone's favorite Mac and iOS Q&A and advice column. We got a nice group of questions from last week's post, but we always need more! Here's what we need you to do: go to the comments of this post, think long and hard ...