Name - Pat Fauquet
Location - Fairfax County VA
I work with Bob LeVitus in his Dr. Mac consulting business. I am an active member of the Macintosh user group community. I have been solving Mac problems and teaching Mac users for over 20 years.
Bob LeVitus Consulting
About this Blog:
This blog is written for the beginning to intermediate Macintosh user. While there are many technical information sites, my purpose is to write clear solutions to common Macintosh problems with lots of illustrations to make it easy to follow along.
In my work as a consultant, I must keep my computer up-to-date, so illustrations and directions will be made from the latest version of the Mac OS X operating system.
Recent Posts:
* FaceTime Data Usage
* A FaceTime Wedding
* Solving iPad, iPhone, iPod and problems
* Magic Trackpad troubles
* Time Flies
* AirPort Wireless a bit slow?
* Life with an iPad
* Life Happens
* Cleaning up your desktop
* Mail - Why do wrong addresses pop up? * Safari: Tabs - More Tricks
* Safari: Using Tabs
* Taking notes on your Mac and iPhone: Notes in Mail
* Taking notes on your Mac and iPhone: iCal
* Taking notes on your Mac and iPhone: Address Book
* iPhone and iPod Touch - How to update an application
* HDMI cables cost how much?
* Welcoming in the New Year
* MacJury Duty on Case 920
* Doctor Mac Newsletter 31
* Safari - I closed the window!
* Safari - Know where you are going
* Safari Toolbar - Make it yours
* Close those windows
* Editing iCal Events
* Overcome by life
* Snow Leopard: Do I need Rosetta?
* Snow Leopard: Slow to empty trash?
* More Option key menu bar tricks in Snow Leopard
* The Option key does even more in Snow Leopard
* Using Speak Text in Snow Leopard
* Equalizing song volumes in iTunes
* Reading menus and drive directories
* Traveling with your Mac
* Do you back up your external drives?
* New gear for my new iPhone
* Printing from blogs and other long pages
* Is your Internet connection down? Pt. 1
* Is your Internet connection down? Pt. 2
* Keep your MacBook and MacBook Pro batteries happy and healthy
* Capturing YouTube Videos
* Creating and editing PDF files
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Taking iPhone Screenshots
Carl, one of our Dr. Mac Consulting clients sent me a tweet :
The ability to make screenshots was added in the iPhone 2.0 software. To make a screenshot: Click here to read more...
Creating and editing PDF files
I do! I often use that information to learn a new technique. I also use it to prepare presentations for my user group, teach a class, ore even write a blog post.
Most of the information that I save will never be printed out. I will read it on my computer screen. I will want to be able to search the information. I will want the option to add comments or highlighting and I want to preserve the links in the article. I might also want to be able to combine several articles into a single document. Click here to read more...
Windows switcher or Mac virgin?
Today brought an interesting email from one of our clients:
Pat, I have made this mistake over and over. When visually looking at your iCal in monthly view, the appointments hug the left side of the date box and (it) is confusing as the date next to the text is the previous day. I can't begin to count the mistakes I had made by looking at appointment and seeing the date next to it (date is right justified). Is there some setting that can either move date to right or appointments to the left. It is visually wrong and quite unlike Apple.
When I take a look at my calendar, it is difficult to see the problem:
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New MacBook Pro - Two Week Report
So what do I think? Was it a wise purchase? Did I choose the right options? Click here to read more...
Removing False Invaders
I explained what the
icons were--but I did not explain how to get rid of
them. I thought about it, but I had spent several
days on that post and it was time to get it online.
When I publish a post, I usually mention it on
Twitter. As I was getting ready to write, this
message came up in my Twitter Stream:
What a coincidence! I
tweeted this back:
Who is invading my computer?
I have a similar icon:
Click here to read more...How to change the highlight color for text
Hi Pat,
This is an older post but hopefully you may get this: I see in this post you say that the default for TextEdit's highlighting color for the Find function is yellow.
Well, when I restore to default the color I get is this almost invisible pale blue-gray. Which makes "finding" tend to involve lots of squinting and hunching and glaring at my page. Why won't the default color yellow work as my Find default? I'm on a MacBook 10.4, if that helps. Click here to read more...