Sandro Cuccia shows you how to undock and split your onscreen iPad keyboard – capabilities introduced in iOS 5. Whether or not you are a “thumb typist,” these features will help speed up your typing while making it more comfortable to use the virtual keyboard.

The Preview application is included with every Mac. Among other things, this useful utility allows you to annotate your PDF files with highlighted text, shapes, lines, arrows, text boxes, sticky notes and more. Sandro Cuccia shows you how.

Did you know that along with audible alerts, you can have your iPhone 4, 4S and 5 use its LED flash to get your attention? Sandro Cuccia shows you how.

Occasionally, it may be desirable to convert a PDF file to the MOBI for EPUB format for use on an iPad with, say, the Kindle Reader or iBooks.  Here's how to do the conversion on a Mac and load the document onto your iPad.

Following up on a previous article on using the Home Folder in OS X, Sandro Cuccia discusses the advantages of using the Shared Folder and shows you how.

The recent iOS 6.1 release introduced a few nice features and enhancements, including Siri's new ability to help you purchase movie tickets. Sandro Cuccia shows you the updated Passbook app and how to have Siri work with Fandango and Passbook to help you quickly find movie showings near you and purchase tickets.

Back in 1984, the first Macintosh had text-to-speech capabilities. Sandro Cuccia shows you how crude, robotic speech synthesis has evolved to the human-like System Voice in OS X and how you can take advantage of this technology on your Mac.

As a follow up to his earlier article about your Home Folder in OS X, Sandro Cuccia takes a closer look at the Shared Folder and how you can use it to collaborate with other User accounts on your Mac.

The NHL is back in action and this year Mac users have more ways than ever to see live games on their Macs, iDevices, and Apple TVs. We run down the ways Apple fans can get their fix of the world's greatest sport.

The recent Java security update has some minor implications for the average Mac user.  Here's what you need to know in terms of making sure your Mac is secure, how to verify that your update worked, and how to make sure native Java apps developed for Java 6 will still work.