Tips
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Clearing Recently Used Fonts from the macOS Font Panel
The macOS Font Panel, for apps that support it like Notes, TextEdit, and XX, allows you to quickly pick a font, point size, and color. It also displays categories of fonts, including a…
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Journaling for Writers during NaNoJoWriMo October
Fall is here, and that means we’re getting closer to NaNoWriMo. One way to start thinking about what to write for NaNoWriMo is to keep a writer’s journal, one that’s primarily about prepping…
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Adding Week Numbers to Apple’s iCal
It is often helpful to know what week, out of the possible 52 weeks in a calendar year, a particular week is. Here’s how to tell Apple’s.app Calendar to show week numbers. Open…
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Adding Week Numbers to Google Calendar
It is often helpful to know what week, out of the possible 52 weeks in a calendar year, a particular week is. Here’s how to tell Google Calendar to show week numbers. Log…
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My Favorite iOS 5.1 Feature
I love that I can compose a shot on my iPhone or an iPad with a camera, then use the Up button on the volume control on the side to trigger the shutter,…
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How to Extend The Due Date of your Kindle Library Book
Via Librarian by Day Bobbi Newman (who tweets as @librarianbyday): It is pretty easy to “extend” the due date of the library ebook you check out to your kindle, just turn your wireless…
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Guest Blogging at Peachpit
It’s my turn to be a guest blogger at Peachpit. I’m doing “5 Tips in 5 Days,” about the iPad. Five iPad 2 Tips in Five Days: Tip 1 – Consolidate Your Apps…
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5 Tips in 5 Days
My co-writer Dennis R. Cohen is blogging about the iPad over at Peachpit: 5 iPad 2 Tips in 5 Days: Tip 1 – Watch Out for the Camera Lens 5 iPad 2 Tips…
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About that battery . . .
Just for the heck of it, and because I was curious, I wanted to see how long my iPad’s battery would last if I were using it just to read some locally stored…
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Screenshots on the iPad
I had assumed, however foolishly, that taking screenshots on the iPad was pretty much the same as taking them on the iPhone. It is, and it isn’t. You still use the Home and…