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Ask TUAW: Mac mini as Time Machine server, baby monitoring with a Mac, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about accessing a shared Google calendar, baby monitoring, sharing music between user accounts, scanning over an Airport Extreme, using a...

Ask TUAW: Clocks, screen guards, MacBook hard drive replacement, NFS automount, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about replacing a MacBook hard drive, refreshing a NFS mount, getting a simple clock on screen, improving iCal's note handling, and...

Ask TUAW: File ownership and permissions, converting FLV and OGG, extra displays, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about changing file ownership and permissions, adding two external displays to a MacBook Pro, converting OGG and FLV files on an...

Ask TUAW: Shopping for new Macs, iPhone home screens, home folder on external disk, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about whether to buy a 27" iMac or a MacBook Pro, increasing the number of iPhone home screens, moving your home...

Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we deal with some technical issues on our production Mac before turning to questions about Windows key remapping in Boot Camp, sharing files with...

Plants vs. Zombies hits the iPhone

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Last week we noted the impending arrival PopCap's ridiculously addictive Plants vs. Zombies onto the iPhone / iPod touch, and now this marvelous time-waster has landed. A variant of the the tower...

Ask TUAW: iPad VGA out, changing keyboard shortcuts, Time Capsule worries, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about changing keyboard shortcuts in Keynote, the iPad's dock to VGA adapter, Time Capsule failures, Mac-compatible scanners, iPhone voice control, and...

Ask TUAW: Power adapters, Windows 7, iWork refresh, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about MacBook power adapters, Windows 7 in Boot Camp and virtualization in general, resetting the Mac Setup Assistant, the next iWork...

Ask TUAW: Prepping a Mac for transfer, adding words to spell check, updating Boot Camp, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about preparing a Mac that you're transferring to a new owner, updating Boot Camp, adding words to the built-in spell check,...

Ask TUAW: Automatic file sorting, Disk Utility, iPod battery replacement, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about automatically sorting downloaded files, using Disk Utility to change partitions and format external drives, using a KVM in a multi-platform...

Ask TUAW: Firewall settings, Snow Leopard faxing, MacBook battery life, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about firewall settings, SSDs, MacBook battery life, faxing in Snow Leopard, and much more.

As always, your suggestions and questions...

Ask TUAW: recovering deleted files, encrypted backups, cheap scanning, and more

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Welcome back to a new year of Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about cheap scanners, encrypting backups, recovering deleted files, troubleshooting new hardware, and more.

As always, your...