I’m baffled. Every program I have on my MacBook Air lets me print two sided (“duplex”) on my HP printer except Microsoft Word. In fact, even Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint can print 2 sided, but not Word. What the heck?
However obsessive you are about keeping your Mac system lean and fast, unneeded files creep up and steal space, extensions stick around after you need them and utilities fall behind the update cycles. The Mac has its own cleanup that happens behind the scenes, but you can accomplish a lot more with CleanMyMac X from MacPaw. I tried it out and here’s what I found…
I’m late to the Mac platform, having recently changed over from Windows. One thing I really miss is the ability to create shortcuts to web pages on my desktop. Is that something you can do in Chrome for Mac?
I’ve become a big fan of using Siri for dictation on my iPhone, rarely typing in messages any more. I’d love the same capability on my MacBook Air, but it’s not running iOS and doesn’t have Siri. Can I use voice dictation anyway on a Mac OS X system?
I am not a fan of Photos and definitely don’t want to learn Photoshop for such a simple task: How can I shrink down my photos and crop them as desired on my MacOS system?
I have thousands of photos and videos on my Apple iPhone XR and would like to have a full backup on my MacBook. Not an iCloud copy, but my own separate copy of everything. What’s the easiest way to do that?
I love my Mac system, but when I plug in my Android phone, they just don’t seem even remotely compatible. How can I access and work with my Android file system and data from my MacOS X system?
I’m confused about what’s going on, but while the audio editing program Audacity seems to work just fine, it isn’t getting any signal from the microphone. I use Audacity a lot to record audio content, so this is a problem! How can I get it working again in MacOS X 10.15 Catalina?
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