This tutorial will show you how to have all photos in their original size you take on your iOS devices to be uploaded to the iCloud and downloaded to your Mac. It will also enable all photos in an optimized size to be moved onto your iOS devices. With this scheme you won’t run out […]
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How to Turn On Automatic Updates for OS X and Apps
One of the best ways to protect yourself on your Mac is to download and install patches as Apple and app developers release them. Rather than doing it yourself, here’s how to have it happen automatically in the background. You might want to turn this feature off when you go on a limited data service […]
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ClamXav can be downloaded directly or through the Mac App Store. The Mac App Store version does not contain the Sentry tool that allows constant scanning for changes by folder, so this tutorial is for the download version which you can get at http://www.clamxav.com/. Note: ClamXav used to be free but as of June 2015 […]
Continue readingHow to Record Skype Call Including Audio from iOS
This tutorial explains how to use Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack 3 (http://rogueamoeba.com) to capture both sides of a Skype call to separate channels and also include high quality sound coming from an iOS device plugged into a Mac. This technique can be used to capture music, podcasts, games, VoiceOver, any sound coming from an iOS […]
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Whenever I present at Macworld, Podcast Expo, MacMania, etc. I upload my presentations to Slideshare.net. If you’re looking for one of my presentations, follow this link: http://www.slideshare.net/nosillacast/presentations
Continue readingHow to Disable Auto-Play Videos in Facebook
Recently Facebook decided that we wanted our feeds littered with auto-playing videos. The only saving grace is that the audio doesn’t also play but it’s still distracting and annoying to many of us. Luckily, there’s a switch to turn it off from the web-version of Facebook, and in a completely different place to turn it […]
Continue readingDoodle Simplifies Scheduling
Doodle is a freemium service that makes scheduling a group of people easy instead of dreadful. Doodle is available at http://doodle.com Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use Doodle to schedule an event.
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Activity Monitor for iOS Using Instruments in Xcode
Activity Monitor is a great utility on the Mac to monitor what applications and services are chewing up CPU cycles, energy hogs, and other things that might slow your Mac down. in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to engage a version of Activity Monitor to track your iOS device. My particular interest in using […]
Continue readingDumb Question Corner – How to Stop Safari from Offering Push Notifications
David Bogdan sent in our Dumb Question for this week. He wrote: Hello Bart and Allison, Hello from Japan. It’s been awhile, though I’ve been listening to you on podcasts and it sounds like the two of you are doing well. I wanted to ask another dumb question regarding security. Recently, I’ve been getting occasional […]
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