http://www.pclive.com/blog Computer Self Help, Tips, and Tricks Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:50:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Posted by Charlie V. Did you know you have multiple ways of selecting text in Mac OS X? Here are some great time-saving tips to help you highlight text faster! 1. To select text one word at a time, double click on your starting word, and then begin dragging your mouse, ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=76 Posted by Charlie V. While computers these days can do some amazing things, they are requiring more and more resources to do them. One resource that cannot be overlooked is RAM (Random-Access Memory). When you ask your computer to perform multiple tasks at once, and are working with large file ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=75 Posted by Charlie V. Attention PCLive Bloggers! After my two part series on the importance of backing up your system, I wanted to let you know about an exciting new product offering that we created just for you, Online Backup! OnlineBackup Online Backup provides easy, automatic, and secure data backup. You simply install ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=74 Posted by Charlie V. If you're like me, when you work at your computer you like to have everything set a certain way. You like windows to open in a certain view, Safari bookmarks to be in place, mail accounts to be synced and your favorite applications placed neatly in ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=73 Posted by Charlie V. Have you ever created a document that you had to send to numerous people? Chances are some of the recipients might not have the application you created your document in, and you also risk the fear of formatting issues between computers, and giving people the ability ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=72 Posted by Charlie V. In part 2 of this backup blog, I'd like to talk about a fantastic system recovery application called SuperDuper!. SuperDuper! differs from Time Machine in the fact that it creates a fully bootable backup of your system, which is ideal if you have a dreaded hard disk failure ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=71 Posted by Charlie V. While some methods are more detailed than others, any system backup is better than nothing. Whether it's occasionally burning family photos and your music library to CD or employing a robust backup program, the peace of mind knowing your files are safe when your hard drive ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=70 Posted by Charlie V. If you're an iCal user, you know that there are three common ways to view your events and to-do items, day view, week view and month view. What if you wanted to switch between these quickly without taking your hands off the keyboard? You can with ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=69 Posted by Charlie V. Today more than ever, Apple has one of the most innovative and diverse line of consumer Macs. While choice is great, in this case, it demands the need for close comparison shopping, and requires that you estimate how you'll use your Mac in the future. Thinking ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=68 Posted by Charlie V. A co-worker filled me in on a very useful tool for all iPhone users who have software update 2.0 or higher. You can capture a screenshot that is saved to your pictures folder at anytime on the iPhone by holding down the power button and then ... http://www.pclive.com/blog/?p=67