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How To: Back Up Your Mac Using Time Machine

Are you worried about backing up your personal information to an online website. If you are like me and do not want to back up your personal information to an online site, then using Time Machine is the next best option. This is because you use an external hard drive to back up your information. Start by connecting an external hard drive that is large enough to store all the information on your computer or more. If this is the first time you have connected this hard drive to your Mac then a pop up will apear asking if you would like to use this as a backup location. If that does not appear, go into System Preferences, click on the Time Machine Pane, then on Select Disk, and choose the external hard drive. Make sure to check the box to Encrypt Backup Disk. Then Time Machine will automatically backup. Time Machine will automatically keep hourly, daily, and monthly backups depending on how much storage is in the backup drive. When you want to manually backup your computer select Back Up Now in the Time Machine menu. Also when you first backup your computer it will take a lot longer then when you back up your after.

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How To: Use GarageBand’s “Learn to Play”

Apple has made it easier then ever to learn how to play an instrument at home. Through GarageBand you are able to learn the fundamentals of how to play a basic, rock or even a blues guitar. Did I mention that those lessons are free. You can even learn along side one of your favorite artists, but this one will end up costing you about $5 for every lesson (lessons go from Beginner to Advanced). All of this should be located in GarageBand’s Lesson Store.

“Intro to Guitar” should already be pre-installed into GarageBand. To start the video just click on it and a full screen demo should appear. On the timeline (located under the video) you are able to control which sections you would like to go over. On the top right of the full screen demo are a Glossary (for music terms), a Tuner (if you have your guitar plugged into your computer), a Mixer (for volumes of teacher’s voice, guitar, ect…), and Setup (for music notations or how you would like to view your music notes while in Play mode). When you feel ready to take a take on the song that you have been practicing in the video, hover over the video screen and click Play. In Play mode you are also able to pause, repeat, and slow down parts of the song to make it easier to learn. After a little practice you can record yourself and listen to what you sound like by hitting the circular Record button on the bottom middle. In no time you will be a rock legend!

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Apple’s “Find Out How” Videos

For those of you who do not like to read, I will keep this short and say that Apple has many “Find Out How” videos, so that you can fully learn how to master your computer. For the link to the website click here or you can find it by typing in “Find Out How” in the search bar in Apple’s website. Now, for those of you who do not mind reading I will go on further to explain the many depths of Apple’s “Find Out How.” To start, Apple has conveniently listed a few categories to choose from. It starts with Mac Basics, Photos, Movies, Web, Music, and ends with iWork. Under each category is a subcategory, containing a list of all the videos. After, you have watched a video the site will automatically check mark the name of the video so that you know which you have already watched. For, those of you who took the time to read this all the way through, I hope this helps and you learn how to master your Mac.

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How To: Customize System Preferences’ Panes

System Preferences’ panes use to be stuck the way it was, but now it is possible to hide the default panes. To do this just open System Preferences, select View in the top menu bar, and then click on Customize. From there check mark boxes will show up on the bottom right of all the panes. To hide it from view deselect it and press Done. If you want to get the pane back just repeat the steps except instead of deselecting you will select the hidden pane.

 

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How To: Transfer Your Old iPhone/ iPad Information to Your New One with iCloud

With the recent launch of the new iPad I thought that this would be a great new way to show how to transfer your information. First, starting on your old iPad. You will need to start by go into Settings, then selecting iCloud, and taping on Storage and Backup. Then tap on “Backup Now” and let it finish. On to your new iPad. From the Set-up screen select Restore From iCloud Backup. Login to your iCloud account, select your most recent backup, and select restore. Then let the transfer load. This a lot easier then the traditional way of going through iTunes. matheson IrinaallenStay connected at my new twitter handle to stay updated 24/7 @TRMGaveragejoes and @realmacgenius What do you think? Let us know in the comment section.