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Find Your Mac’s Warranty Expiration Date

.abelafonte — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:50:20 +0000

If you are interested in purchasing AppleCare or have APP and want to know when it expires, this link will come in handy.

Visit the Apple Online Service Assistant and enter the serial number of your apple product. It will tell you if you’re eligible to purchase AppleCare and expiration dates of any other coverage you might currently have.

For Apple desktops and notebooks, find your serial number by clicking the Apple Menu > About This Mac. Once there, click ‘More Info’.

New Apple Commercial – Don’t Give Up On Vista

.abelafonte — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:25:17 +0000

Having toyed around with Windows Vista right when it came out, I have to say, it hasn’t been the most pleasant experience. I agree with the message here whole-heartedly!

From incompatible drivers to features that just didn’t work, the Vista experience, for me, was nothing I would want to do again. Now, that’s not because I’m a Mac user, because I have some of the same issues with Leopard right now. But, with Vista, there were functions that you’ve grown accustomed to in a previous version of the same operating system that have been altered to the point that you literally have to start over and re-learn the OS.

I say, if you’re learning a news OS, you might as well get a new OS. So, I’ve been able to successfully convert a lot of people over to Mac. And, at this point, I’m telling them all to wait on the whole Leopard upgrade. More of my thoughts on that issue later…

Tab Through All Fields On Mac OS X

.abelafonte — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:46:27 +0000

There is a very small feature of Windows that I got accustomed to while I was stranded on a Dell back during 2003-2004. On a PC, you can tab through all fields in the interface and click with the space bar. A feature like that comes in handy when you’re a quick-key lover who doesn’t like to jump back and forth between the keys and the mouse(pad). But, what about on a Mac?

The image below is an example of a Windows alert that I could manipulate by simply tabbing to the checkbox and pressing the spacebar to select/deselect, then tab to the button option I prefer and select with spacebar once again.

To enable this awesomely useful feature in OS X, follow the steps below:

Go to System Preferences
Select ‘Keyboard & Mouse’
Click the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ tab
Choose ‘All Controls‘ under ‘Full keyboard access’ at the bottom

Voila! Now you can tab through input boxes, radio buttons and check boxes, etc in the Mac OS like you may already be used to doing in your web browser.

To disable, select ‘Text Boxes and Lists Only’ in the preferences. It may not stop immediately, though. Sometimes you have to hit Ctrl+F7 to get back to normal mode. (But why would you want to, silly!)