The Apple store in Haywood mall opened it’s doors at 10:00 am today. The store is one of the biggest I have been in. Much larger than the 2 closest stores Charlotte, NC and Mall of Georgia, GA. When the store opened at 10 there were more than 500 in line to see the 1st Apple store in the upstate of SC. I shot all kinds of video on my iPhone 4 today and I am going to use …

The long awaited Haywood Mall Apple store will be opening its doors for the first time this Saturday at 10:00am. Apple has not had much of a presence in the Upstate until now. Please join me in welcoming Apple to the Upstate. I am going to try and be in line to be one of the first in the store along with some of my friends from the local Greer Mac User Group.

Every Apple Retail Store offers a range of …

For our summer vacation my parents bought a new camera and we wanted to test it against 2 other cameras. So we headed to the beach with the 3 cameras and took the same shoots. Long story short I came back to the beach house and uploaded all the shots to iPhoto. I then wanted to see all the information about each shot so I knew which camera too the best shoots. I kept hitting “Command+I” but all I got …

This morning I got and e-mail from the site.  Doug has forgotten his Admin password for his make ( or it was changed by mistake) and he needed help figuring out how to reset it. Bellow are the instructions for Snow Leopard. If you need the instructions for a different version then scroll to the bottom of the page for the link to the apple support articles on this subject.

This is a 2 step process because your user password and …

I am an avid mobile user of my mac, and when I bought the MacBook the only issue I had was keeping the MagSafe power cord organized. About 6 months ago I found the answer to my problem. I came across a new product from Quirky.com. It is called the PowerCurl. What it does is pretty cool and pretty simple. It not only gives you a place to wrap the MagSafe side of the transformer it wraps the power cord …

MacUpdate Promo today released a bundle that includes Parallels and 10 other great Mac applications. None of the Applications are not crippled in any way. They are full versions of the software just as if you had bought them straight from the Developers Web site. This is more than $400 of great software for 50 bucks. Check out the this video (MacUpdate Promo Spring 2010) to learn more about each application. It does a good job of telling about …

I received an e-mail form Kathryn asking why people were not able to open attachments to her e-mails. After I asked her  A bit more about what was going on, I concluded she was sending .pages documents to people who were either on mac without pages or worse on a windows computer(poor people). What Isuggested to here was to either save the Pages file as a .pdf or save a Word Document Copy.

If you are not sure how to save …

In Mail OS X 10.6 one of the changes is how an email address is copied to the clip board. By default in 10.6 when you copy and paste an e-mail address you get the output in “Name ” . Before the release of 10.6 you could just copy an email address in Mail and when you pasted it you would just get “name@example.com.”

If use use Mail.app like I do and use the copy feature to move e-mail addresses around, …

If you will keep these 10 Mail.app shortcuts in your head you will become much faster at getting through your daily e-mails.

These are my ten most useful, the ones I do remember because I use them most often.

Command-N — Opens a new message
Command-1 — Opens the inbox (try also, Command-2, -3, -4 – neat!)
Command-Shift-M — Closes and opens the mailbox drawer on the left
Command-Option-F — Jumps the cursor up to the search field
Command-Shift-A — Attaches a file to …

I needed a quick way to resize images in batches, and was pleased to find that Preview has that functionality. Open the whole batch of images in Preview; the images will all open in the same window with thumbnails visible in the sidebar.
Select all of the thumbnails in the sidebar (with Command-A, or click the first and then click the last while holding Shift). Next, from the Tools menu, choose Adjust Size. You’ll be presented with a dialog containing options …