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How to Resize an Image Picture on a Mac

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Hi All
So I thought I would post up and easy guide on how to resize a picture on a Mac.
I want to try and spread out the Tutorials evenly so I will try and do one per day on each topic.
When sending emails with images via email, most free email servers like Yahoo or Google have a limit on how many images you can send at once. Usually it’s around 10 meg in size. To get around this you can resize your image to make them smaller so that you will be able to attach more images to the email.
Making the pictures smaller will also allow you to upload and download them faster and when adding images to a website will allow them to load faster in the viewers web browser.
Resizing a picture on a Mac is quick and painless when you know how to do it and it the software is already built into your Mac OS X. So you have no reason not to be able to this yourself.

Step 1. Once you have the image you want to resize. Right click and select Open With. Then click Preview Default.
The image then should open up and you can then go to the next step.

Preview Image Mac

Step 2. Once you have the image previewed, the next step is to click on Tools in the Apple menu bar then click Adjust Size.

Preview Adjust Image

Step 3. You will then have a screen that you can change the details of the image. For example if you wanted to change the width and height of a picture your can select the number in the Width field and the results of the change you make will display below under Resulting Size.

Width Change Image

Step 4. Click ok to apply your changes to the image and then to save the changes go to File and then Save. Once you have made this change you’re done!

Save Image Resize

Step 5. Go to Preview and Quit Preview and you have now closed the Preview software.

Things to Note If you want to resize an image for webpages 100-200 KBs is usually the best size to use.
Warning if you select Save instead of save as it will save over the top of your current image.
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How to take a Screen Shot in Microsoft Windows using the Snipping Tool

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This video will show you how to take a Screen Shot in Microsoft Windows using the Snipping Tool and Print Screen function.

Step 1. To open the snipping tool go to Start > All Programs > Accessories or Press the Windows Key on your keyboard and then type snip.

Snipping Tool

Step 2.Choose the kind of snip that you want to use. Click on the down arrow right beside the New button and you will have the following options.

Snipping tool menu

* Free-form snip. This allows you to cut out any shape you wish.

Free Form Snip

* Rectangular snip. As the name suggests it snips a rectangular box anywhere on the screen.

Rectangular Snip

* Window Snip. Allows you to take a screen shot of any Windows on your screen. Could be the task bar Internet Explorer screen.

Window Snip

* Full-screen snip. This screen shot allows you to capture everything on the screen.

Step 3. The image you have just captured will be automatically copied into the mark-up window. From this window you can Save, create, copy, email or edit the snip.

Save Snip

* Annotations within the Snipping tool allow you to draw and write with a pen and you can customise the colour width and it can all be removed by an eraser.

Snipping Tool Toolbar

* Share and Email The snipping tool also allows you to cut a screen shot and email it directly from the tool.

Snipping Tool Email

In windows you can also press > CTRL > ALT > DELETE on your keyboard and it will save a Screen shot to your clip board. Simply open MS paint or MS word and go right click paste and it will paste the screen capture for you.

I hope that helps out.
Good Luck 🙂

How to find a lost iPhone iPad or iPod 2013

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This video will show you how to find a lost iPhone iPad or iPod 2013.

Losing your iPhone can be a real pain. First of all these lovely Apple devices are not cheap to replace. Second, you run the risk of losing your data and having someone else get access to your photos, music, contacts and not to mention your iTunes account.

Don’t worry all is not lost, you can actually minimise your losses especially if you are one of those types of people that loses 5 iPhones a year. Read on an we will show you how you can find that lost iPhone.

Setup the “Find My iPhone” App

Step 1. Download “Find My iPhone” app on your iOS device and setup your iCloud account. You can get the Find My iPhone app from the iTunes store.
See the video on how to setup an iCloud accounts here.

Find my iPhone

Step 2. On your iPhone turn on the Find my iPhone App within the iCloud menu. Settings, iCloud scroll to the bottom and tap the Find my iPhone button.

Find my iPhone iCloud Setting

Step 3. Now you can open the app on your iPhone or on a Mac or Windows PC you can open a web browser and browse to www.icloud.com

iCloud Login

Step 4. Once logged into the App or iCloud you will be sent to the location of the iPhone. If you tap devices you will get a list of iOS devices that you have added to your iCloud account. See the screen shot below the 123myIT iPhone has been added to the device list.

Fine My iPhone Menu

Step 5. Tapping the iOS device will show you the location of the iPhone on Google maps.

Find my iPhone Location

Step 6. Press the blue arrow on the iOS device and it will give you three options.
* Play Sound
* Lost Mode
* Erase iPhone

Find My iPhone Options

Play Sound
Now this is this important part, if you have lost your iPhone around the house or it has fallen down the back of the couch and you cant find it. Pressing the Play Sound button with make the iPhone ring so you will be able to track it quite easily. What’s the difference between doing that and ringing the iPhone I hear you ask? Good question the iPhone will actually ring even if you have it on silent and the sound turned down! neat huh ?

Lost Mode
Pressing the lost mode button allows you to enter a phone number that if the iPhone is found the person who finds the iPhone can make a call back to the number you specify and hopefully you will get your phone back. It also lock the device so that if a person has found the device they will not be able to access your data but they will be able to call the number you enter.

Lost iPhone

If you press next you will be able to put in a message to the person that has found your iPhone. The default message on the iPhone is. “This iPhone has been lost. Please call me.”
You can change this message to what ever you want and there are some great messages on Google especially when the iPhone has been stolen.:)

LostMode Message

Pressing Done will send the message and the number you suggested to the missing iPhone and with any luck you will get a phone call and have your iPhone handed back to you.

Missing iPhone Message

Erase iPhone
The last option is Erase iPhone. ONLY do this if your iPhone has been stolen or lost and you want to delete your data on the device. Only use this option as a last resort.

If you do end up getting your iPhone back you can simply restore your data through iTunes backup. See my video here.

More to come 🙂

How to Change Your Default Browser on an Android Device

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This video will show you how to change the default browser on your Android Device.
If you don’t like the stock standard default Android browser, you can change if for Free in the Google Apps Store.
Once you download the free browser, make sure you set it to the default browser so that you can use it every time you use the internet.

Step 1. Open up the Google Play Store and do a search for Browsers.

Android Browser Search on Google Play

Step 2. Select the browser you want to install and press Install.

Install Android Browser

Step 3. Go back to your Home screen and tap into the Google search bar.

Android Browser Google Search

Step 4. Search for anything in the search bar and then press the Search Button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

Android Google Search Bar Results

Step 5. Put a tick in the checkbox that says “Use by default for this action.” And then press the Browser that you want to be the Default Browser.

Android Browser Set Default Button

And that’s all you need to do. Changing the default web browser will give you greater functionality like being able to create new tabs more easily.

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How to change the Screen Timeout on Android

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This video will show you how to set the Screen Time out on Android.

Hi All
One of the biggest killers of battery life is the screen timeout, so I have make a quick video on how to change the screen timeout on your Android device to save battery!!! 🙂

step 1. Go into your phone menu and tap settings.

Android Settings Menu

Step 2. Tap on display.

Android Display Menu

Step 3. Scroll down and press the screen timeout button.

Android Screen Timeout Menu

Step 4. Select how long you want the time out to be. Remember the shorter the timeout set the more battery life you will have on your Android device. You should have the following Timeout choices.
* 15 seconds
* 30 seconds
* 1 minute
* 2 minutes
* 10 minutes
* Never turn off

Android Select Screen Timeout Menu

Hope that helps you increase your battery life ! 🙂
Good luck

How to turn off Autocorrect on an iPhone iPod Touch

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This video will show you how to turn off Autocorrect on an iPhone/iPod Touch.
What is Autocorrect?
Autocorrect is a feature in found in the texting part of all smart phones. It provides and automatic “spell-check” which allows the user to correct the spelling of words automatically.
Some people love this feature while others hate is as it can suggest the wrong words and cause the user to write incorrect and funny sentences. Another issue is that the iPhone and the iPod don’t have a very good autocorrect function.
The steps below will show you how to fine tune or turn off autocorrect.

Step 1. Tap on the settings icon.

Settings Menu

Step 2. Scroll down and tap the general button.

General Menu iPhone

Step 3. Scroll down and tap on Keyboard.

iPhone Keyboard Menu

Step 4. Toggle the on off button to turn Autocorrect on or off.

Autocorrect iPhone

If you want to turn the Autocorrect feature back on simply follow the steps above and set the button to from Off to On.

How to bind a Mac to an Active directory or Open directory domain

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Hi Guys
This video will show you how to bind a Mac to an Active directory or Open directory domain. You would need this when you are in a workplace environment.
Cheers