To celebrateBoxing DayI’d like to propose one final gift for 2012 . And that gift is a roundup of what I think were the best Mac 911 first appearance from the past year . My Leslie Townes Hope is that it will facilitate you solve those annoying issues that have plagued you over retiring months and help you startle 2013 with a respectable and happier Mac .
We began the year by explain how toreset a leave administrator ’s watchword under Lion . ( The proficiency works with Mountain Lion as well . )
Reader Ted Adams was uninterested in some of the Apple - installed applications that shipped with OS X and wanted to delete them . I showed him how inDeleting Files Within Lion ’s Applications Folder . ( Again , works with Mountain Lion . )
Now that we ’ve find out just how sprightly an SSD can be , many people are interesting inKeeping Mac bone and Data on freestanding crusade .
Security is just as important now as it was on March 28 , 2012 when I explained to Steve CarterHow to Securely Delete Filesfrom his Mac .
Although it ’s 2012 ( and very nigh 2013 ) , a fair turn of Mac users cling to AppleWorks . Ted Landau offered advice forOpening ( Very ) Old AppleWorks and Word Documentsfor just these people .
I admit it , I ’ve grown quite fond of Automator . During 2012 , among other things , I used it toAutomatically Encrypt Files For My Google Drive(and other online store services ) .
Reader Matthew Hansman was having a heck of a clock time with iCloud on his MacBook Pro — the overhaul just could not be automatically configured . I picture him how toManually Configure an iCloud Email Account .
Some of you are more than a slight frustrated that your Macs do n’t suffer AirPlay mirroring . In JulyI told you about an alternative .
While iOS machine are far more closed than the Mac OS , they ’re not quite as closed as some think , as I explain inHow To draw out Voice and Text Messages From an iPhone .
If you received an Apple TV for the holidays , you ’ll in all likelihood be interesting inLimiting your Apple Remote , as were our reader in October .
And finally , we ’ll stop with something that I desire serves you well for the next 11 months — How to chuck out Holiday Tracks From Genius Playlists .
