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• Article | 8/05/2012 Remotely transfer iPhoto images to iPhone

  Reader Robert Zavod would like greater access to his photos from his iPhone. He writes:
• Article | 17/04/2012 How to capture video from an iOS device

  Reader Andrew Lane is interested in the technique I used to capture video from my iPad's screen. He writes:
• Article | 6/03/2012 Changing your Apple ID's e-mail address

  A reader who wishes to remain anonymous would like help with his Apple ID. He writes:
• Article | 21/07/2011 How to install Mac OS X Lion

  For over a decade, installing the latest major version of Mac OS X meant buying a disc and slipping it into your Mac's optical drive. No longer. Mac O...
• Article | 21/07/2011 How to install Mac OS X Lion over Leopard

  One of the requirements for installing Lion is that you already have Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) version 10.6.6 or later installed. The main practica...
• Article | 21/07/2011 Should you do a 'clean install' of Lion?

  With some previous major releases of Mac OS X, upgrading over an existing OS X installation -- for example, installing 10.3 over 10.2 -- entailed some...
• Article | 26/05/2011 How to insert an image into a Gmail email

  Want to send someone a photo, screenshot, or other image? If you're a Gmail user, there's only one option: attach the item(s) to the message. That's a...
• Article | 24/05/2011 Edit spreadsheets on an iPad

  As the iPad ecosystem expands and matures, it becomes easier to leave your laptop behind and accomplish much of your business work on Apple's tablet c...
• Article | 5/04/2011 How to fix speech recognition in Windows 7

  QUESTION Speech recognition will no longer load on my Windows 7 PC. Unless I first switch off User Account Control, I get the error message: 'C:\Windo...
• Article | 16/03/2011 Internet Explorer 9: A getting started guide

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 officially launched late Monday and is ready for download here.
• Article | 9/03/2011 Enable iTunes Home Sharing in iOS 4.3

  The next major iOS update is slated to be released this Friday, March 11, alongside the ultra-hyped iPad 2. One of the key features is a little someth...
• Article | 9/03/2011 Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily

  FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly E...
• Article | 3/03/2011 Digitize your movies

  Analog movies can be the easiest--or the hardest--medium to digitize, depending on the format you're working with. While older camcorder and video for...
• Article | 5/02/2011 Prepare your PC for future data disasters

  Reformatting and restoring a PC is not fun--in the way spending 2 hours in the dentist's chair is not fun. You have to back up all your data (and pray...
• Article | 2/02/2011 Stop Facebook from cluttering your inbox

  There's a fine line between awesome and annoying. Take Facebook: Most of the time, it's great, but a few things about the service drive me crazy.