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How To: Check Your Computers Log In Times

Checking your login times are very helpful in many way. For example, if you feel like someone maybe a friend or family member has been snooping around on your computer, you can check to see if someone logged in and at what time it occurred. Another way this is helpful is if you want to see how often you use your computer. To do this just go and open Console. To open your Console application go into your Application folder, then into your Utilities Folder. After that is open, you will see your activity on your computer and type in “wake” to see logins. On the very left you will be able to see the time to check and see when someone logged in. By looking at the time you will be able to compare and see if you remember logging in at the time or not before blaming someone for snooping around on your computer.

Thanks to : OSXdaily.com for this great tip!

 

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The Basics and More: Text Edit

Basics of How to Use

Text Edit in words is a very simple version of Microsoft’s Word. Text Edit is very self-explanatory application. It will allow you to change fonts, sizes, bold, colors of words, and much more. Some of the fallbacks of Text Edit is that it does not have the special features that Word has like making charts, or creating special documents.

Useful Things

Like I have said, Text Edit is a very simple application, but it also has some very useful features like Spelling and Grammar Check. Another thing that is very useful is that you can save the file as a PDF. Moreover, if you have any questions on how to use this application you can go to the Top Menu Bar, select Help and type in your problem.

Conclusion

Clearly, Text Edit is a very simple Application that is very useful if you don’t want to pay for Word. Text Edit is a great application for people who don’t need anything fancy and just want to get down to writing.

 

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How To: Make Your Login Speed Faster

Does your computer take forever to load up? Well I have two easy tips that will make you login into your Mac faster. The first way is to make sure that you do not have any applications open automatically at login. You can check this by going into “System Preferences,” then go to accounts, and click on the “Login Items” button. To stop your apps from opening at login you have to select each one and click the minus button on the bottom. Note that just clicking the box on the side does not stop it from opening at login, but it hides it at login, and that does not affect the speed of login. Another way to make your Mac’s login speed faster is to make sure that you do not have any servers, external hardrives, or memory sticks connected to you computer because it will have to load those at login. It’s as easy as that to make your login speed faster.

Let us know how this worked for you.

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Average Joe’s Biweekly Tips and Tricks

New to a Mac? Here are some helpful keystrokes:

Apple or Command Button + h = Hide Current Application

Apple or Command Button + q = Quit Current Application

Apple or Command Button + c = Copy Highlighted Texts

Apple or Command Button + v = Paste Copied Texts

Apple or Command Button + z = Undo

Apple or Command Button + f = Find

Apple or Command Button + m = Minimize

Shift + Tab = Allows you to view current applications that are running and select them

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Average Joe’s Tips & Tricks

As of Today, we will be having Tips & Tricks coming every other week called Average Joe’s Tips & Tricks for all of the new Mac users. We hope that you will enjoy these tips and find them extremely useful.