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
Big News In Our December Email Newsletter
Some Pretty Big News From Up Your Media –New partner, new workshops, operating systems explained Welcome Rob Van De WegheAfter 12+ years as a strictly solo operator, I’ve partnered with someone who can add value to the team, in a very specialized…
Our May 2021 Spring Up Your Media Newsletter
Our First Up Your Media Newsletter since March 3, 2020!This is our first newsletter since last March 3rd 2020. At the time, I was hyping our upcoming workshop schedule for March, April and May. Little did we know… It’s been a very busy year…
Self-Care For Your Mac Computer
Finally finished the resource file from a presentation I did for the PQMug last April 2017. Self-Care For Your Mac computer, in movie format. Steps you can take to troubleshoot and maintain your iMac or MacBook before calling a technician.
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…
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…
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…
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…
How to Install the Adobe Flash Update
Lots of emails this week about the new Adobe Flash update and how to install it. They seem to update this plugin every 4 to 6 weeks, and it’s essential to many online services like YouTube videos and other sites. First, go…