Give Us One Minute

The last article in our Mac Productivity series presented numerous keystroke combinations to automate repetitive operating system tasks and to apply basic formatting. Today we take a look at how to use our keyboard to move around within our documents in most text editors and word-processing applications that conform to Apple user interface standards. These [...]

The foundation for being productive on any computer is knowing how to use the hardware. Apple (or for that matter, any computer manufacturer) provides a keyboard with every computer (and we don’t count the Apple TV as a computer during today’s discussion). They also provide a mouse. Did you know that? Of course you did. [...]

We’ve not done such a good job of living up to our title of Give Us One Minute. Sure we’ve provided some interesting news from around the web that you can digest in a minute or so, but it seems all of our original content has been lengthy and not in sync with our over [...]

Google released the beta of their Google Desktop for Mac today. So why would you want to install Google Desktop when OS X already includes Spotlight for searching? So you can experiment with all of those wonderful Google search tips we showed you in a previous article, of course. Now you can view the results [...]

Do you google? Of course you do. Who doesn’t? Of course I mean the verb google as in the non-sanctioned by Webster’s dictionary verb. But just what does it mean to google? Simply put we are talking about using the Google Search engine (http://www.google.com) to search for stuff, a highly technical term that should not [...]