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How To: View Your Apple Support Profile

On January 10, 2012 By

Apple Support Profile is a great way to view your history, warranty information, and other details of your apple products. Getting there is easy, just click this link: Apple Support Profile. After that sign into your apple ID account and all items registered under that account will apear. In your Apple Support Profile you will [...]

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How To: Use Mission Control

On December 26, 2011 By

Mission Control is a new application that comes with OS X Lion. It gives you the ability to control and organize all of your windows and applications. Mission Control is a very basic and user friendly application. To quickly access Mission Control hit f3 depending on your keyboard. To use Mission Control you can add extra [...]

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How To: Customize Your Finder Window

On December 12, 2011 By

You might be asking yourself why would I want to customize my Finder Window. Well customizing your Finder Window will help with navigating through files faster. There are multiple ways to customize your Finder Window. The first way is to go to the Menu Bar in the top Left, click on Finder, scroll down to Preferences, and select [...]

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How To: Reset Your Password Using Apple ID in OSX Lion

On November 28, 2011 By

Have you ever forgotten your password to your computer? Well you can easily reset it using your Apple ID Login. Note that this does not work for the Login Screen, but does work for unlocking the ability to change settings. Also you must have your Apple ID account connected to your user account, which you [...]

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How to: Change Your Modifier Keys

On November 14, 2011 By

  Changing your modifier keys to your own preference is very easy and helpful, especially for PC users that have recently switched over to a Mac. To change the Alt, Command, and Control button so that it mimics a PCs is very simple. First, open System Preferences, then select Keyboards, and press on Modifier Keys. A smaller [...]

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How To: Customize with Mac OS X Lion

On October 31, 2011 By

Want to learn how to customize Launchpad and your desktop backgrounds in Mac OS X Lion? Well there are many different ways to customize your Launchpad’s background and the different desktops space’s backgrounds in Mac OS X. First, if you want to change Launchpad’s background open up Launchpad then select Command + B which will [...]

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How to: Facetime

On October 17, 2011 By

FaceTime is a video chatting application that you can use from iPhone to iPhone or computer to iPhone. To even start your FaceTiming journey you need to make sure that you have an Apple account ready, which can be the same one that you use for iTunes or the App Store. After that you will [...]

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