Author: Cory Bohon

The battery is the key component of any portable device, but did you know that battery maintenance is important to keeping your MacBook healthy? With proper maintenance and calibration, you can keep your computer’s battery performing at its optimum, …

The Mac|Life 101 series is where you can come to learn new and simple ways to do things with Apple’s desktop and mobile operating systems. Whether you’re new to the platform, or just want to learn a new technique, then Mac 101 is for you.Spam is ev…

While iTunes 11 is running a little late, it is expected to drop on us this month. When it arrives, it will be the single biggest change to iTunes since the introduction of the iTunes Music Store. To prepare for this large update, you may want to prepa…

The Mac|Life 101 series is where you can come to learn new and simple ways to do things with Apple’s desktop and mobile operating systems. Whether you’re new to the platform, or just want to learn a new technique, then Mac 101 is for you.If you are…

Since its introduction, there are many users who have never downloaded a Newsstand-enabled app to their iOS device. The icon just sits, taking up space on your home screen, without any way to turn it off, or remove the icon–until now. Thanks to a smal…

I just upgrade to Mountain Lion and was having trouble accessing my Yahoo POP email account. In my intelligence, I deleted the account and went to reset the settings. Afterwards, I noticed that I had lost all of my email on the POP account hat I had no…

I was wondering if I can still set up iCloud on my iPhone even though I’m still on Snow Leopard on my Mac? Searches explain that I need to have Lion or higher to set up iCloud, but I was wondering if I can just set it up on the iPhone 4 directly with…

There are multiple ways to control iTunes on your Mac. From using the remote control on your Apple EarPods,  the keyboard function keys, to using numerous apps that place controls in the menu bar on your Mac. Unfortunately, all of these apps requi…

The iPhone 5 is great in pretty much every aspect, but battery life continues to be an issue for some despite it’s slightly larger battery than the iPhone 4S. While you can’t swap out the battery for a larger one, there are 5 simple usage tips that can…

I have an older G5 Mac with the dual PowerPC CPUs. Because it is not an Intel based Mac, I have finally hit the software “wall” and cannot upgrade any further. I am looking for advice about web browsers, because I cannot install Chrome, Opera keeps…

Suddenly, several of my iPhoto pictures are not showing up in my iMac’s iPhoto library. Instead, iPhoto only shows a gray icon with an exclamation point (!). How can I recover my Photos?With older versions of iPhoto (6.x and 7.x), under certain condi…

Despite having flags, VIPs, folders, and other modes of structure and storage, emails are inherently difficult to keep track of. Especially whenever you have a message that must be replied to by a certain time. Luckily, both the Calendars and Reminders…

Recently, a power outage caused data corruption on one of my drives, leaving some of the data unrecoverable. However, this issue could have been preempted. One solution: A UPS (or uninterruptible power supply) can provide backup power to your Mac and c…

Something appears to have changed since I upgraded to the latest version of OS X. When I first purchased my Mac with Snow Leopard, I could easily drag apps from the Dock to have them disappear in a puff of smoke. Since upgrading, I cannot seem to do th…

Along with the update to iOS 6, the iPad 3, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 also received a large Maps update that includes turn-by-turn navigation features previously only available with 3rd party applications. With the new features, you can now use Siri or th…

When I open iTunes on my MacBook Pro to play music or listen to the radio, I get a popup showing “Sign in to use this computer for automatic downloads.” It asks for my iTunes account credentials. I’ve tried to get rid of this message, but it keep…