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AppleCare: The Ultimate Guide. AppleCare is the support arm of Apple.

AppleCare: The Ultimate Guide

If things go wrong, they’re the best people to speak to. Apple offers an extended support package called the "AppleCare Protection Plan" for their hardware devices that provides additional support beyond the standard warranty. However, longer support is just the tip of the iceberg and the AppleCare Protection Plan provides a lot of features that most people almost never realize. In this guide, we’ll be breaking down the AppleCare Protection Plan to discover what exactly you get for your money. The Basics All new Apple products include a standard one-year limited warranty and 90 days of “complimentary” phone support. All new Apple products include a standard one-year limited warranty... We’ll spend a few minutes discussing what the standard warranty provides before discussing what the AppleCare Protection Plan adds to this. One-Year Limited Warranty 90-Day Complimentary Phone Support.

Beginner's Guide To iPhoto. Beginner's Guide To iPhoto. Getting Started with Aperture. Aperture is a complete photography toolkit from Apple.

Getting Started with Aperture

This impressive app lets you import, organize, edit, and share your photos from a single application in a professional workflow. In this video, I will go over all of the features that Aperture has to offer. Screencast Getting Started with Aperture The User Interface If you’ve used Apple iPhoto before, you will notice that the user interface is very similar to Aperture. The Complete Guide to Buying an External Display For Your Mac. Apple sells more portable Macs than desktops - but that’s a lot of Macs with a display of 15” or less.

The Complete Guide to Buying an External Display For Your Mac

A Beginner’s Guide to the Ports on Your Mac. Thunderbolt, HDMI, USB 3.0, FireWire 800, Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio.

A Beginner’s Guide to the Ports on Your Mac

What do they all do? If you’re new to the Mac, or computers in general, here’s a comprehensive guide explaining what all the ports do on your new Mac. For the purposes of this guide, we’ll be basing it upon the current Mac lineup as of February 2013. Before USB Compared to Macs before 1998, our Macs have the smallest range of ports imaginable. Back on the original beige PowerMac G3, there was no shortage of different ports On a PC you’d find ports such as PS/2, AT, Parallel and Game port. Practical Tips For Taking Care of Your Mac's Battery.

Rechargeable batteries are in all our electronic equipment, yet we know very little about them.

Practical Tips For Taking Care of Your Mac's Battery

In this tutorial we’ll discuss the best methods of keeping your battery at its best and what to do when your battery is showing signs of age. Apple’s Batteries Apple uses Lithium-Polymer batteries in all their battery-powered products. Whether it’s an iPod shuffle or a MacBook Pro, the battery technology is the same. Everything You Need to Know About Your Mac's Hard Drive. Hard drives: they are one of the most important pieces of hardware in your computer, and also the source of most problems you will encounter.

Everything You Need to Know About Your Mac's Hard Drive

The hard drive is where all the data on your computer is stored, so when it stops working it can be a bit scary. In this tutorial, I will go over how a hard drive works, how to fix common hard drive problems, and end with a discussion on filesystems and how to use them. What is a hard drive? The hard drive is a piece of hardware inside your computer that stores all your data. This includes all of your documents, pictures, movies, music, applications, and even OS X itself. Hard Disk Drives The hard drive reads and writes data by changing the magnetic polarities on the drive.

If you're ever seen warnings to not put any magnets near computers, the reason is because of the hard disk drive. Solid State Drives Solid state drives are a lot more more confusing and advanced than hard disk drives. How to Create an Awesome Diagnostic Drive for Your Mac. AppleCare: The Ultimate Guide. Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer. If you have a Mac, you can import photos from your iOS device using iPhoto, Image Capture, or Aperture.

Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer

Import photos using iPhoto: Connect the device to your computer. iPhoto should automatically open its import window and show your device's images and videos. If iPhoto doesn't open, you might need to turn the option on. Click Import All. Or if you want to import specific items, select those images and videos, then click Import Selected. 9 Hazel Rules to Increase Your Productivity. Hazel, a folder monitoring application, has long been a favorite among many a Mac enthusiast.

9 Hazel Rules to Increase Your Productivity

Hazel will automatically take action on your files, using the rules you create, keeping your folders in order. Getting Started With Grapher, Your Mac's Built-in Graph Tool. Grapher is one of those tools on OS X that is sadly abandoned.

Getting Started With Grapher, Your Mac's Built-in Graph Tool

Preview: OS X's Secret Weapon Image Editor. Kindle for Mac: Everything You Need to Know to Read in Sync. In this article, we're going to take a look at the relationship between your Kindle and your Mac and how to keep your library in sync wherever you're reading (whether it be on Kindle hardware or not).

Kindle for Mac: Everything You Need to Know to Read in Sync

Kindle for Mac One of the big advantages of Amazon's content ecosystem is the range of platforms available for consuming their content. How to Import DVDs Into iTunes. There was once a time when all the music we listened to was stored on 700 MB CDs. I still purchase these shiny bits of polycarbonate plastic to have physical copies of all my favorite albums, but things are definitely progressing into the digital age of the iTunes Store. That brings us to the topic of films, which very much in the same ship. Soon even Blu-Rays will be out of date, but there are still many DVDs laying around in the corners of your friends attic. How to Use Home Sharing in iTunes. In the days before iTunes 9, users had to copy their old library from one computer to another using an external hard drive, or even a series of DVDs. Everyone knew it was possible to transfer it over the local network using either Ethernet or WiFi, but there wasn’t an official solution for it.

When the ninth revision of Apple’s music player released, a fancy new feature called Home Sharing accompanied it. This finally brought the much-needed LAN transfer feature. Five Ways to AirPlay From Your Mac to Your Television. AirPlay is by far one of the most popular features of the Apple TV. On iOS devices, it allows the easy streaming of audio and video to an Apple TV so that you can enjoy watching a movie on your television with friends and family. On the Mac, however, it's not as simple. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to AirPlay almost any audio and video content from your Mac to your Apple TV. 1. iTunes. Learn Everything There Is To Know About Your Mac's Hardware.

A computer is a complicated beast. Even if you know your way around the general specs such as processor speed and memory, there are still a ton of potential questions that could arise. For instance, how many memory slots are available? What graphics card do you have? What type of drive do you need if you want to upgrade? These are questions that pro users should be able to answer about their machine right away, can you? If not, follow along as we look at four different methods for digging into your system and pulling out any information that you need about hardware, software and more. Screencast Watch the video for a quick overview of the methods in the article. System Information. How to Run Windows on Your Mac. Ever since Apple switched to Intel architecture back in 2006, Macs have been able to run Microsoft Windows natively without any kind of emulation software, such as Microsoft Virtual PC.

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Switching from Windows to OS X. Making the switch from Windows to OS X can be a pretty daunting task, especially if you've grown up using one system for your entire life. But migrating across to OS X doesn't have to be difficult. Given the range of Mac programs now available and the better compatibility with existing Windows peripherals, such as mice and keyboards, it is a lot easier to do than it used to be, especially since the switch over to Intel-based systems.