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May 31, 2005

A little too quiet, if you ask me

Heh. I was kind of expecting something to go wrong. I hoped to ease you into using a new kind of computer (not Windows) in a new way (at home, sitting on the couch, with the weather channel or some endless golf tournament on the TV in the background) with tips and resources and lots of help. Moms need help with computers. Everybody knows this. Moms even know this.

But nothing seems to have gone wrong. There was the incident involving the faulty electrical socket - the symptoms included a lot of dead networking bits - but it was the house's fault. And Mom had it sussed anyway. She sorted it, powered it up again and everything came back to life and worked the way it's supposed to work in a perfect world.

Anyway, Mom's had her Mac for a little over 2 months and nothing has gone wrong. I don't know whether to be more impressed with Mom or the Mac. I feel a bit like Jimmy Stewart when he hooks up the head psychiatrist with Harvey.

Posted by Brad at 11:11 PM | Comments (2)

May 14, 2005

Safari | Make text bigger

If you find text in a web page is too small (or less commonly, too large)...

Increase text size:
Press the APPLE key and + key

Decrease text size:
Press the APPLE key and - key

It works in Firefox too!

Posted by Brad at 02:05 PM | Comments (0)

May 02, 2005

Exposé | Which keys do what

I grabbed this image from Apple's feature page on Exposé to save you a click, Mom. Now you'll always have it handy.

Apple also has a great demonstration movie for Exposé. It simply shows what F9, F10, and F11 do.

Posted by Brad at 01:08 AM | Comments (1)