The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

No Robots Providing Mac Help Today

Ok, ok, let me start by assuring you there will be no April-fools jokes in this newsletter. I don’t promise something entirely humorless, either!

This is the second warm day in Chicago in what seems like, well, forever, and the sun is creeping in when it makes it past the clouds rolling by, warming my back, making my eyes squint and the text on the screen appear to dim. Ah, Spring! Which in Chicago at least comes on like Summer. Boom. It’s hot.

OnDeckTech’s open house, training center & 24/7 live help

Shameless self-promotion edition of our newsletter

Our newsletter will be back next month with another informative edition about Apple technology. We’ve been so busy getting ready for our open house this week, we haven’t had a chance to devote time to another edition of our monthly newsletter!

If you’re in Chicago and have time Friday, October 14, you’re invited to visit our open house at 1464 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago’s Wickerpark neighborhood between the hours of 8AM and 7PM. You’ll be able to meet our team of Apple-certified nerds, and some others, and see where we work our magic. We apologize our facility is not wheel-chair accessible, and is a third-floor walk up.

Summary: A “nano” mention of the new iPod nano and Rokr, 24/7 live help, when to back-up your data (and when not to), creating a Smart Mailbox in Mail, mac mind-mapping software, Safari update 2.0.1, and On hurricanes.

A “nano” mention of the new iPod Nano and Rokr

[Not covering this more than briefly because it’s news that has already saturated the known universe…]

4 tips in OS X Yahoo Mail, Apple Mail, dock and log files

This month’s newsletter focuses on a few quick tips, addressing perpetual questions we receive here at OnDeckTech, and on Website Wednesday Nights on WGN Radio, AM 720.

1. Yahoo Mail: why you can’t use a mail program like Apple Mail to check it (for free)

Yahoo, Inc. provides a free e-mail service with which most of you are probably familiar. It allows you to choose an e-mail address at the Yahoo.com domain, and provides you access to check that address using a web browser.

Before we get to the newsletter, which this month *attempts* to stay relevant while covering Shark attack and identity theft, let me share our news that OnDeckTech is currently the featured consultant on Apple’s Consultants website: http://consultants.apple.com , you can skip directly to our Spotlight here: http://consultants.apple.com/profiles/ondecktech .
Shark-bite and Identity theft..? Back up for a moment!

I bet you have heard about the recent shark attacks, and about the theft of 200,000 records from Atlanta-based Card Solutions Systems Inc..

Using Tiger Widgets & Synchronizing Schedules with Multiple Macs

Apple’s OS 10.4, code named Tiger, has been out a month already, long enough for the 10.4.1 update to be released! We recommend the update, and for reference include basic instructions for updating your system (OS 9 and X) at the end of this newsletter. After our quick tip for advanced users covering the RSS Screen Saver, we’ll talk about the Dashboard, before we move on to how we’re using Tiger to synchronize schedules, and more, across multiple Macs. Have a question about your Mac not answered here? Use our free Mac forums, linked at the end of the newsletter. You’ll get answers from our Apple-certified technicians.

In this issue: Tiger & Beware of Phishing

Tiger Tamed