Practical Tips in plain language — how to use your Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod.

Apple software

These Tips explain how to use the software included with your Mac or iOS device, or available separately from Apple. This includes things like Address Book, iCal, Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, Pages.app, and a heap of others.

Quickly rename batches of files with ease

Rename files with A Better Finder Rename.

If you have more than a couple of files to rename then A Better Finder Rename is an app you’ll find very helpful. I use it frequently. Here’s an intro to the app, showing how to make filenames lower case.

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Organize System Preferences in Lion

Tidy up System Preferences in Lion and organise the window in the way that suits you: by category or alphabetically. Here’s how.

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Save a page in Safari to read later on your Mac or iPad

The Reading List icon resembles a pair of spectacles. It usually appears at the left end of the Bookmarks Bar.

You want to read a web page, but not just now. You want to save it to read later, but not clutter up your Bookmarks menu with a web page you’ll only visit once. In Lion Apple have solved this problem for you. Read how now. Or later. :-)

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Scoot to the top or bottom of a document

The fn key on a MacBook Pro built-in keyboard.

Moving around a long document can mean a lot of scrolling, unless you know the shortcut keys to use. Here’s what you need to know to go quickly to top or bottom, or up or down a page at a time.

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