| Master Apple Mail (Part 4) |
| The Search field in Mail in OS X 10.8 is a little simpler than it was in previous versions, but it hasn’t lost anything in the way of sophistication. On the contrary, now when you type a phrase or a name, it actively suggests what you might be looking for. |
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| Master Apple Mail (Part 3) |
| As in many apps, a lot of the commands that are available from the menu bar menus are also available by right clicking on an item and calling up the contextual menu. This is almost always quicker and provides instant access to things like flagging, moving, deleting, forwarding and applying rules to messages. |
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| Master Apple Mail (Part 2) |
| Although Mail has a stripped down look, its interface isn’t all that customizable aside from the ability to drag section borders. The one big thing that you can change though is the way it’s laid out. Go into mail’s Preferences and find the Viewing tab. |
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| Master Apple Mail (Part 1) |
| Apple introduced its own Mail application with the very first version of OS X, although it wasn’t a new program, having been developed for the NeXTSTEP operating system that would become Apple’s flagship OS. At the time it had plenty of competition from the likes of Microsoft’s Outlook and later Entourage, Netscape’s Communicator, Eudora and others, but as Mail matured it started to win over more and more users. |
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| Use Wi-Fi Hotspots Wisely |
| Wi-Fi hotspots are clearly convenient. But the security risks associated with these networks can sometimes outweigh the convenience they provide. The truth is that most Wi-Fi hotspots, and especially public hotspots in busy places, can be hotbeds for snoops and hackers. |
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| Turn Your Smartphone Into A Safe |
| Trojans, worms, viruses, and spyware exist on your smartphone platform of choice just as they do on desktop platforms, which means you should be passing everything you download through a security filter. Just like on your desktop, an antivirus app periodically checks the software on your system against a list of known malware and flags any matches. |
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| Why Developers And Customers Should Be Wary Of The Mac App Store |
| The Mac App Store’s restrictions have some precedent, since they have been part of the iOS App Store since day one. But “on the Mac,” Arment tells Macrworld, “the App Store policies are being retrofit-ted into a well-established environment that they’re fairly incompatible with.” |
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| Rise Of The Mobile Processors (Part 3) |
| Codenamed Wayne, Nvidia’s next chip will pair four to eight 28nm ARM Cortex-A15 cores with a new GPU architecture believed to be based on Kepler. With a unified shader architecture featuring 24 to 64 fully programmable, general purpose GPU cores instead of fixed function geometry and pixel shaders, it promises to be twice as fast as Tegra 3. |
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| Rise Of The Mobile Processors (Part 2) |
| In many respects, improving processors for smartphones and tablets is no different to improving processors for desktops and laptops. The biggest challenges are power consumption and heat, but on mobile both issues become more critical. Up to a point, the same tricks that work on desktop processors also work on mobile: new process technologies and a die shrink. |
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| Rise Of The Mobile Processors (Part 1) |
| AMD versus Intel. Athlon versus Pentium. Radeon versus GeForce. For years we’ve tracked the ongoing battles between the giants of processing and graphics. Now, however, something strange is happening, something that could leave the latest developments in desktop CPUs and GPUs looking like a sideshow. What if the real battle for the future of computing isn’t between Intel and AMD, but Intel and ARM? |
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| The Apple Buyer's Guide (Part 4) - iOS, Apple TV |
| The iPhone 4 and 4S and the iPod touch 4th generation have a 3.5in Retina Display with four times as many pixels as their predecessors, though the iPod’s screen isn’t of quite such a high quality. The iPhone 5 and iPod touch 5th generation share exactly the same larger Retina Display. The iPad 3rd generation similarly doubles the iPad 2’s resolution. |
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| The Apple Buyer's Guide (Part 3) - MacBookPro, MacBook Air |
| The 13in and 15in MacBook Pro each have two USB 3 ports, one FireWire 800, one Thunderbolt and Gigabit Ethernet, as well as 802.11n wifi and Bluetooth 4.0, audio in/out and an SDXC Card reader. The MacBook Pro with Retina Display has two USB 3 and two Thunderbolt ports, HDMI and SDXC, but needs an adaptor for Ethernet or FireWire. |
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| The Apple Buyer's Guide (Part 2) - iMac, Mac Pro |
| As the featureless case implies, the iMac isn’t designed for user upgrading; getting inside is an engineer’s job. But adding RAM is very simple through a hatch on the underside. Remove two crosshead screws, and it’s a two-minute job to pull out the modules and insert bigger ones. |
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| The Apple Buyer's Guide (Part 1) - iPad mini, Mac mini |
| Apple’s wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse are included with all Macs except the Mac mini. If you want a wired keyboard with a numeric keypad, opt for this when ordering. You can swap the mouse for a MagicTrackpad at the same price, enabling more gestures. |
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| Can Ultraportables Really Ever Be Green? |
| When Apple pulled out of the US environmental scheme EPEAT, ahead of the launch of the MacBook Pro with Retina display, the move appeared to be definitive confirmation that ultrathin laptops can’t be environmentally friendly. |
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| Revive A Crashed Notebook |
| The oftentimes cryptic message on a Windows stop error, aka BSOD (blue screen of death), can make it difficult to determine the origin of the problem. But the BSOD is actually the result of a Windows safeguard, so you can consider it better news than when your computer suddenly shuts down completely for no obvious reason. |
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| Mobile Devices and HDMI |
| Being mobile doesn’t mean you have to give up your large screen HD television. You can connect your laptop, tablet, or smartphone to an available HDTV at a hotel, resort, or other venue. What makes connecting a mobile device to an HDTV so appealing is its simplicity. |
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| Three Quick Ways To View Notification Center |
| With Mountain Lion, you may find that your Mac goes to sleep when you don’t want it to (when you’re delivering a presentation, perhaps, or watching a video). Say you’ve configured your Energy Saver preferences to put your Mac to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity. |
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| Top Ten Raspberry Pi Projects (Part 2) |
| Putting a Raspberry Pi in space may sound extreme, but the device is well suited to such Endeavours: it’s passively cooled, with no moving parts, and can run from batteries or solar power. |
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| Top Ten Raspberry Pi Projects (Part 1) |
| The Raspberry Pi has turned out to be a terrific success. Despite minimal third party software support and manufacturing delays, it remains a bestseller, with buyers waiting weeks to receive their orders as production is ramped up to meet demand. |
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| Western Digital My Net N900 Central – Good NAS For Home Users |
| The My Net N900 Central is a combination dual-band wireless-n router/network-attached storage (NAS) unit. It comes with a fixed internal 1TB hard drive, four gigabit Ethernet Ports and a USB 2.0 port for storage or a printer. It’s at the top end Western Digital’s My Net range of home routers, the company’s first major foray into the network space. |
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| Introducing UEFI BIOS (Part 2) |
| We’ve mentioned that UEFI lets motherboard manufacturers provide a friendly graphical interface to system settings, and that may be reason enough to switch. Once you’ve used a handy dropdown menu to configure your hard disks and tweak the frequency settings on your CPU, the old business of moving back and forth with the cursor keys feels impossibly primitive. |
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| Introducing UEFI BIOS (Part 1) |
| If you’re buying a new PC, you may see systems described as boasting a UEFI BIOS. If you’re building a computer from scratch you may notice that some motherboards feature a UEFI BIOS, while other, older models lack it. But what does UEFI mean, and is it worth paying extra for it? |
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| AMD FX – Can They Challenge Intel’s Mid-Range? |
| AMD has a superb range of graphics cards and a strong range of APUs, but one of its stalwarts - its line of traditional processors – is floundering. Last year’s first generation of FX chips aimed at Intel’s Core i5 range and fell short, so AMD is back with a second attempt. |
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| Understanding the Architecture of SharePoint 2010 : Deployment |
| In a small farm deployment, server roles may be combined to deploy the entire application architecture on the minimum amount of resources from a hardware standpoint. For example, you can combine the Web server and application server roles on a single server or on multiple servers to achieve redundancy. |
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| Understanding the Architecture of SharePoint 2010 : Capabilities |
| These capability areas define SharePoint 2010 as a unique product in the marketplace and allow the expandability and flexibility needed to empower both customers and independent software vendor (ISV) partners to create their own unique solutions to line-of-business problems. |
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| DisplayPort 1.2 - Meet HDMI’s Smarter Brother |
| DisplayPort has made a few timid steps forward since its 2006 introduction; but based on what we saw at CES in January, 2012 might be the year it finally breaks through to mainstream usage. |
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| How To Get The Best From Your Batteries (Part 2) |
| It's natural to want the longest possible battery life from your laptop. If you have a modern thin and light model in which the battery is integrated into the body and can’t be replaced, you'll want to maximize its lifespan; too, since replacing it means sending it away and probably facing a hefty bill. |
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| How To Get The Best From Your Batteries (Part 1) |
| We're increasingly reliant on mobile devices for computing, whether in the form of laptops, mobile phones or tablets. To that extent, we're reliant on batteries to keep these devices working while we're out and about, and to minimise the time we spend tethered to the wall by a charging cable. |
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| The 30 Most Important Technology Trends (Part 3) |
| Nvidia has started a cloud service for 3D computation. Called GeForce Grid, the service is a computing centre full of special graphics processors that compute the 3D graphics for thousands of gamers simultaneously. |
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| The 30 Most Important Technology Trends (Part 2) |
| The next generation of memory modules are ready. DDR4 should manage to run at a lower voltage (1.0 to 1.2 volts) compared to DDR3 (1.2 to 1.5 volts). DDR4 is also expected to reach clock speeds of 2,133MHz, which is double the current speeds. |
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