Some people are still happily using Snow Leopard thank you very much, and they are tired of being ignored. In this installment of Computing with Bifocals, Nancy Carroll Gravley offers up a few good tips to spice up their lives.

With each new advancement in our technology it sometimes does us good to stop and remember the little reasons we love our Macs so much. Nancy Carroll Gravley shares a simple little story of how a Mac, a job, and a little guidance helped someone change her life.

Nancy Carroll Gravley evaluates the advantages of novice Mac users moving up to Lion, and thinks it’s a great idea for most new Mac users. Better yet, she has some tips to help them along with the process.

Nancy Carroll Gravley has found three tips for Address Book and Keychain that she hopes will open up new experiences for beginners. One involves controlling information on a vCard, the next is about working with Groups in AddressBook, and the third is a great tip for accessing your keychain on another computer.

Nancy Carroll Gravley shows how disk utility can come to the rescue in time of need, shares a shortcut for getting images in some of your Apple applications, and discovers a cool hidden attribute for the iPad.

Nancy Carroll Gravley has tips about others being sneaky with your Mac, one for when you want to be sneaky, and two to save you time.  

Nancy Carroll Gravley discusses four free useful Mac applications that any beginner can use, including SwordfishExpress, Art Text 2 Lite, Monolingual, and EasyEnvelopes for Mac.

Nancy dug into her bag of tips and came up with four secrets to help your spelling problems, cool keyboard shortcuts, making Sticky Notes more powerful, and determining primary fonts in TextEdit.  And then there’s that whole brain damage thing…

Apple launched the iPad 2 last Friday, and at the Barton Creek Apple Store in Austin, Texas they lined up by the hundreds hoping for a chance to buy one. Their reasons for being there were diverse, their goals all the same. Nancy Gravley spoke with people in line to find out why they wanted Apple’s latest tablet.

Nothing is more frustrating for new Mac users than simple problems for which you can not seem to find a cure.  Nancy identifies three of those problems and the evasive cures that will keep you going.