Apple Tips, Help & Tech Blog
Practical Apple tips, troubleshooting advice and the occasional bit of technology nonsense from Dan LaRocque and Robert Van De Weghe at Up Your Media.
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Back Up Your Hard Drive With Time Machine
Get Some Peace Without Missing What Matters
How To Clear Your Browser Caches and Cookies
How to Deactivate Your Facebook Account, and Whatever Happened to Pirate?
How to Record Your Mac Screen
Memory (RAM) vs Storage Capacity
Passwords, Passkeys and Security for Your Mac
Understanding System Settings on Your Mac
Up Your Media’s Custom iPhone Ringtones
Use iPhone Reader View to Get Straight To The Content
Using Multiple Photos Libraries On Your Mac
What’s Inside Your Mac? The Main Parts Explained
Your Mac Says Your Startup Disk Is Almost Full. Now What?
Latest Posts
Adobe Flash Update Tutorial, July 4 2016
Adobe Flash received an update on April 21st 2016, and it’s starting to affect usability. I had written a tutorial on how to upgrade your version a couple years ago, but here is some more current information. To avoid following a link…
Understanding System Settings on Your Mac
If you’ve used a Mac for a while, you may remember something called System Preferences. Apple renamed it System Settings and redesigned the layout to make it more consistent with iPhone and iPad. The names and locations of some controls have changed,…
July’s Apple Tips And Tricks Newsletter
How To Create An Apple ID, Quick Guide to Bits and Bytes, How To Change Your Wifi Network Password, How to create a monthly calendar item, How to set a specific ringtone, recent software updates How To Create An Apple ID Hard…
How to Deactivate Your Facebook Account, and Whatever Happened to Pirate?
Facebook has changed a lot over the years. The menus have moved, the settings have moved, the privacy controls have moved, and occasionally I suspect Facebook itself isn’t entirely sure where it put everything. But two things are still worth knowing: how…
Your Mac Says Your Startup Disk Is Almost Full. Now What?
If your Mac warns that your startup disk is almost full, don’t panic. It simply means your Mac is running low on available storage space, and that can slow things down, cause apps to misbehave, and make macOS updates difficult to install.…
Bulletproof Email Solutions for iPhone and iPad
Now that you’ve got an iPhone and / or iPad, your email app is sure to be one of your most important tools for staying connected with friends and family while out on the road, or on the beach. The major cellular…
Passwords, Passkeys and Security for Your Mac
Passwords have always been one of the more entertaining parts of working with computers. I can’t count the number of times I’ve asked someone for their Mac password, email password, Apple Account password or Wi-Fi password, only to be greeted with the…
How to Record Your Mac Screen
There are plenty of reasons you might want to record what’s happening on your Mac screen. Maybe you’re showing someone how to use an app, demonstrating a problem, creating a tutorial, or trying to explain something that would otherwise require six paragraphs…
Up Your Media Quick Mac Tips Newsletter Volume VI
Manage iPhoto Duplicates with Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto This 3rd party application, available for free at your App store, actually works to locate and delete exact iPhoto duplicates. Free up a little disk space and trim down those annoying duplicates. Create PDFs…
Apple Quick Tips Newsletter Volume VII
Email Webpage Link Or Contents As with anything Apple, there’s always more than one way to skin a cat, or in this case, to email a Safari webpage to a friend. With the webpage open, go to your File menu and choose…