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:
* 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 notes on your Mac and iPhone: iCal
For example, I am taking a Frontier Airline flight to Macworld later this week. I received a confirmation email from Frontier after I booked my flight:
While I might put the
telephone number and URL for Frontier in Address
Book, information about my flight to San Francisco
would be easier to locate in iCal or the iPhone
Calendar. I used copy and paste to put the
information into iCal:
Then I waited for
MobileMe to sync the information to my iPhone:
One of the most
interesting things is that although the links from
the email do not appear in the iCal event, they are
visible and available on my iPhone. The links open to
Google maps in Safari. Just think of how convenient
it could be to have such easy access for maps to
hotels, restaurants etc.
Note that I edited the screenshots to remove personal
and identifying information from the images above.
Both Bob LeVitus and I will be at Macworld later this
week. Look for blog posts, Twitters and updates as we
learn about new products for the Mac, iPhone and iPod
Touch. I will be traveling with my husband, Ron--if
we don’t get snowed in by yet another DC storm.
--Pat
Printing from blogs and other long pages
The other day I sent her a link to one of my favorite blogs, Bakerella. If you have not seen it and you enjoy baking or cake decorating, this is a wonderful site. Aunt Lee discovered a recipe for Lemon Bars. Of course, she needed a printout to use while she cooked.
Click here to read more...
Interesting links 2009-06-17
I have noticed that several of the authors of blogs that I follow occasionally post interesting or useful links. I have decided to adopt the practice. The links I provide will generally be to technical sites or to sites that I think will be of interest to a wide audience of readers.
My husband had a heart attack last summer. It caused quite a scare since he did not seem to be a heart attack candidate. He eats sensibly, watches his weight, exercises regularly and his medical tests were in the normal or very slightly elevated range. On the advice of his cardiologist, we invested in a blood pressure machine. I have been looking for a good blood pressure chart, and I have found one! Check this link out:
Click here to read more...
Is your Internet connection down? Part 2
There can be lots of other problems with Internet connections besides those listed in Part 1. While that article dealt with problems that affect both wired and wireless connections, today we will focus on wireless problems.
Years ago when I bought my first Apple AirPort, no one else around me had a wireless Internet connection. My PC neighbors were amazed that I was able to be on the Internet without having a cable connected. Some of them eventually bought wireless set-ups of their own and they were stunned by the difficulties in setting up their new routers while my AirPort made the task so easy.
After a time things began to get ugly. Instead of being able to “see” one wireless network, I had several to choose from in my AirPort menu item. Soon I began having problems with drops in my AirPort signal strength and sometimes I could not even “see” my own network! Click here to read more...
Is your Internet connection down? Part 1
You launch Safari and all you see is a spinning beach ball. Or you’ve been away from your computer and then you come back to go to a web page. All that you get is a spinning beach ball.
So what is going on?
Why can’t you get that web page?
Did your computer mess up--again? Click here to read more...
Capturing YouTube Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY&fmt=18
There are several ways to capture YouTube videos. While some are geeky and complicated, CosmoPod, an inexpesive software package, makes the task quick and easy. Click here to read more...