Apples to Apples vs Apples to Oranges? Just drink the Kool-Aid!

I often get asked, “Why should I use Apple Mail instead of Outlook for Mac 2011, or gmail.com web mail?

The number one reason is INTEGRATION. Apple Mail is so well integrated with the Mac OSX operating system, and other Apple applications, that [...]

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Alicia is officially an author. If you loved her classes, you’ll love her writing:

This is not a book about how to use Word on a PC. Lots of people have already written about that.

This is a book about how [...]

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Someone left us this review on the Intuit Proadvisor website. I have no idea who, so thank you, whoever you are! “Alicia is an amazing, confident, and very patient teacher. She has helped our business a lot. We did not know what we did not know, but Alicia showed us shortcuts, useful reports, and [...]

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In March, Jamie went to the MacTech BootCamp II in Seattle, WA and earned his Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Accreditation. This is a brand new accreditation from Microsoft, and the conference attendees were the first in the country to have the opportunity to earn it.

In combination with his Microsoft Office 2011 certification in [...]

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Jamie here. With my new Office for Mac 2011 Accreditation, I got the lowdown on the new Office 365 product and the changes being implemented concerning licensing for Office for Mac 2011. Microsoft won’t be releasing the next Office for Mac until 2014. They are trying to drive people to use their [...]

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Turning on Dictation

Did you know that OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion makes it easier than ever to draft emails and write documents? You don’t even need to type them anymore!

Dictation is your Mac’s latest feature, allowing you to say what you want to write. Your voice is sent up to Apple’s servers, [...]

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By Alicia Katz Pollock via TidBITS.com:

Most people don’t realize that Time Machine backs up their Dropbox folder by default. This is either a nice secondary backup of key information, or a waste of precious hard drive space for files that are already being duplicated to the Dropbox Web site.

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“My initial inquiry to Alicia regarding Excel training was responded to promptly, and she answered all of my initial questions in detail over the phone. I hired her for a 3 hours session to tutor me in Excel. It truly exceeded my expectations. Her depth of knowledge, teaching style and patience made it worth [...]

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A few years ago, I was helping a client upgrade her Mac running OSX 10.5 Leopard, but she couldn’t remember her administrative password. Because she had an older computer, I couldn’t boot into OSX’s Recovery Disk and reset it from there – I had to go so far as to create a new Root [...]

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Apple’s new Sandboxing ensures that you can’t install software from vendors that are not on their “approved” list. For many users that’s just fine, but power users need software not sold in the Apple Store, or from small independent developers.

You can change your computer’s default settings by going into System Preferences > Security [...]

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