You can obtain virtually any user manual online. Just go to the company website, look for manuals and open the one you need.
Once you see the manual on the screen, just go to File > Print, then click the PDF button in the lower left, and select “Save as PDF.” Give the manual a title you will remember (I usuall begin with the word “Manual”), such as “Manual HP Printer D110.pdf” and save it to your Documents folder.
When you need to refer to it, just type “Manual” into Spotlight, and all your manuals will be listed. Click the one you want, and voilá.
The Disk Utility application is a great, easy and quick way to create a copy of a previously burned DVD-R. This will not work with copyrighted DVDs.
Here are the steps:
1. On the Desktop, from the Go menu, select Utilities (Shift-command-U).
2. Find Disk Utility and double-click it to open it.
3. While it opens, insert the DVD you want to copy into your Mac. If a message appears asking if you want to watch the DVD, click the Cancel button.
4. If the DVD player application opens, quit it, because you want to make a copy, not watch the DVD.
5. The DVD will appear in the left panel of the Disk Utility window.
6. Select the DVD (the first line of the DVD if there are two.
7. From the File menu, select New > “Disk image from disk (title of your DVD)”
8. A “Save As” dialog box will appear. Type a name for the new DVD.
9. From the “Where:” pop-up menu, select Desktop.
10. From the “Image Format” pop-up menu, select “DVD/CS master.”
11. Leave Encryption as “none.”
12. Click Save. A Disk Utility Progress window appears, showing “Creating Image …..,” the first step of re-creating your DVD. This step usually takes several minutes.
13. Once this process is complete, the new title will be shown in the lower window of the left panel of the Disk Utilities window.
14. Click on it to select it, and click the yellow-and-black Burn button in the button bar of the window.
15. Your original DVD will be ejected from your Mac automatically, and a dialog box will appear, asking for a disc to be inserted.
16. Insert a blank DVD-R. When the Burn window shows the sentence, “Ready to Burn,” select a speed. Most people choose “Maximum Possible (8x).” If the burned DVD turns out to be less than perfect, you can burn it again at a lower speed.
17. Leave the “After Burning” choices of “Verify burned data” and “Eject disc.” Click the Burn button. This will open another Disk Utility Progress” window.
18. When the burn process is complete, a message will pup up saying “Image … (“name”) … burned successfully.”
19. Click OK. Eject the DVD.
20. To verify that the copy process was really a success, re-insert the DVD and check its content.
21. You may continue steps 16 through 20 to make as many copies as you need.
To see a demo video, go to http://www.youtube.com and search for “Copy a DVD using Disk Utility.”
Here is the direct link to the video I just watched and successfully followed the steps:
You can also go to the Disk Utility Help menu and type the word “copy” to get a list of potentially helpful topics. Select “Duplicating a CD or DVD.”
Friend lists allow you to filter your News Feed, so that you see updates about only one group at a time, such as your family members. This can save you lots of time if you have lots of Facebook friends.
Friend lists also allow you to fine-tune your privacy settings.
I have 4 browsers on my Mac: Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome and Camino.
Many people don’t know that you can have more than one browser open at the same time. For instance, I have several Gmail accounts. To avoid having to sign out of one and sign into another account on the same browser, I access each Gmail account on a different browser.
Once, I helped a friend sell an item on eBay, working with her eBay account on the browser Camino, to keep the transaction separate from my own eBay account.
The only limitation of how many browser you can use at the same time is memory, which with current Macs is not an issue.
“Get Tube” is a free application for OS X that lets you download YouTube videos into Quicktime movies. This makes them readily available to you at any time on your Mac. As QuickTime movies, they are also editable.
When I want to access a different website without losing the current one, I press Command-T. This opens a new tabbed page, where I type the new URL and press Enter. This opens the new website, and I can easily go back to the previous site by clicking its tab.
Anne's Quick Tips for Mac 