Macworld's best tips, tricks, and How-To's

Adding streaming radio to Apple TV

Yes, you can so stream Internet radio through your Apple TV.

Gain full keyboard and mouse control in 10.5’s screen sharingDo you use 10.5’s screen sharing feature? Have you been frustrated by the inability to send, for instance, Command-Tab to the remote Mac? Here’'s a simple way to solve that, and other, problems.
Working Mac: Office 2008 survival guideOffice 2008 offers a bunch of improvements over Microsoft's last Mac office suite. But some new features are confounding. Kirk McElhearn is here, with answers to the most common Office 2008 questions.

Latest Help and Tips

Adding streaming radio to Apple TV
Yes, you can so stream Internet radio through your Apple TV.
Gain full keyboard and mouse control in 10.5’s screen sharing
Do you use 10.5’s screen sharing feature? Have you been frustrated by the inability to send, for instance, Command-Tab to the remote Mac? Here’'s a simple way to solve that, and other, problems.
Working Mac: Office 2008 survival guide
Office 2008 offers a bunch of improvements over Microsoft's last Mac office suite. But some new features are confounding. Kirk McElhearn is here, with answers to the most common Office 2008 questions.
Avoiding lengthy iMovie letterboxing
Is iMovie automatically letterboxing your movies? You may have started your project on the wrong foot.
A copy-and-paste tip for Keynote slide groups
Here’s a reminder on a simple feature of Keynote’s slide groups that may lead to unintended results.
Ease the Safari-to-iTunes lyric pasting task
Use a simple AppleScript to make it simpler to copy lyrics from Safari (or any other browser) to iTunes.
Bugs & Fixes: iTunes’ CD mounting bug
Ted Landau looks at a bug introduced in iTunes 7.7 that occurs when you insert a CD to import into iTunes.
Permanently delete Mail messages
Learn a useful—and potentially dangerous—method of permanently deleting messages in Mail.
Bulk-add Mail addresses to Address Book
Need to quickly and easily pull email addresses from your Inbox into Address Book? MailCM will do the job in next to no time.
What to do with an old iPhone
You’ve upgraded to Apple’s iPhone 3G. But what to do with that original iPhone you bought a year ago? Christopher Breen outlines three options—give it away, sell it, or keep it.
Whipping the Apple TV into shape
Is your Apple TV feeling low? Simplify, simplify, simplify.
Create a visual catalog of settings and error messages
Learn a simple way to keep track of various settings on your Mac, as well as those obscure error messages that may occasionally pop up.
Printing iPhone text messages
Wouldn't it be nice if you could print the SMS messages on your iPhone. With PhoneView, you can.
Bugs & Fixes: Fixing a Connect to Server error
Sometimes when using the Connect to Server command, you might get an error message even when you’ve entered a correct server address. Here’s the fix.
Set up a basic workgroup file server the simple way
In many workgroup environments, there’s no need to use a complicated method for setting up a file server. Kirk McElhearn offers a basic approach that should be sufficient for many users.
Search for iTunes music by star rating
Want to filter your iTunes library by rating information? Just type some asterisks.
Obtaining free GarageBand sounds
Want to add free software instrument sounds to GarageBand? SoundFont is the answer.
ExpressCard/34 Buyers’ Guide
If you've got a MacBook Pro, you've got an ExpressCard/34 slot (instead of the old PC Card slot). Jeff Carlson explains a few of the ways you can use that slot to beef up your laptop.
Earthlink and the devil's spam filter
Want to make friends and influence people? Dial down Earthlink's address-approval "feature."
Record any sounds
Many fleeting sounds that play on your Mac are worth preserving. With the help of the right software, you can record and edit audio files and add them to iTunes for future use.