Getting frustrated with that red "archive" button when you try to delete a message on your iOS device? Melissa Holt is here to report that there's a trick to select whether you want to archive or delete each message, and you can also turn off the archiving feature entirely. Hooray! She also reports that she likes pie, which is somewhat less relevant.

In this tip, we're going to dive into the new options available for the MiniPlayer under the just-released version of iTunes, including the lovely new album art view. Melissa Holt informs us that she listened to a lot of Pink Floyd while writing this tip, so it may turn out to be her grooviest yet, man.

If you've used InDesign, you may be familiar with styles, those handy-dandy formatting tools that can help you change the look of your documents pretty much instantly. In this tip, Melissa Holt will cover how to use paragraph styles in Apple's Pages program, and if you've never used them before, you may find them to be the official Best Thing Ever™ for formatting text.

There's an easier way to add events to your iOS calendar that you might not know about, and we're gonna find out how from Melissa Holt in this Quick Tip. Afterward, you'll tell two friends, and she'll tell two friends, and so on, and so on. And we'll all somehow come out with fluffier hair and better ways to use our calendars.

Whoops! You accidentally typed something into Safari's Smart Search field, and then you realized that you don't want to navigate away from the original page. You could, of course, copy and paste your search into a new tab or window, but Melissa Holt's got a better way to do things. And we understand that if we're really nice to her, she might even tell us what she knows. Maybe.

You know those email addresses that you've sent to in the past? The ones that you misspelled or no longer need? Well, you can prevent your iOS 6 device from offering them as suggestions when you're composing, just like you can on your Mac. We're pretty excited about this, as now we can get rid of all of those ".con" addresses we've accidentally emailed over the years. Hey, we never claimed to be rocket scientists.

If you'd like to assign a place to images in iPhoto, there are a few ways you can go about it. One method in particular—copying and pasting the location data—makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The other ways are OK too, we suppose. For all of the details, come on in and read this tip.

Got something to hide? Sure you do. Wanna know how to disguise that fact from anyone who may use your Mac? You can do so easily, so you'll never have to answer pesky questions about what you've hidden and why. And we here at TMO would never judge you for needing to hide files. They're Christmas present ideas, right?

In this tip, Melissa Holt will tell us about how to disable the screen flash—either temporarily or permanently—and the three-second countdown in Photo Booth. So when you're saving those weird warped images of yourself on the machines in the Apple Store, you'll know how to do it discreetly and quickly. C'mon, we know we're not the only ones who do that.

So you're going on vacation. If you're using an Apple-provided email address, how do you set up an auto-response to let people know you're out of town? We're going to tell you how because we're happy you're getting a vacation! And we aren't jealous even a little bit. No, we're not.

In this article, Melissa Holt is going to cover a bunch of methods for zooming in or enlarging small text in Safari (and around your Mac!). She'll also discuss one special setting that you can use to leave images the same size as you enlarge the text on a page, which is especially useful for sites that are covered with ads. Folks with bad eyesight, this tip's for you.

If you need to include some text from a document or a website in an email message, you can of course select it, copy it, open Mail, start a new message, and paste it. But what if there were an easier and far faster way? Well, there is, and Melissa Holt's gonna tell you all about it in this tip. That's why we keep her around, folks.

Mountain Lion's Notification Center is awesome, but if you've got a banner that pops up and gets in the way of you clicking something underneath it, what do you do? Gnash your teeth? Rend your garments? No, read this tip! Then if you're still into the garment-rending, go right on ahead.

If you need to reply to or forward along only a portion of an email on your iOS device, it's really easy to do. Far simpler, in fact, than trying to remove extraneous text after you hit the Reply button. In this tip, Melissa Holt's going to tell you how to do it and why it's useful. We promise you'll be at least mildly entertained.

If the idea of having a special folder that makes iPhoto import pictures automatically sounds peachy, have we got the tip for you. iPhoto's fancy "Auto Import" folder does just that, and it makes saving images from the Web or any other source a snap. Best of all, the import happens whenever iPhoto is opened next—after you've dropped in one picture or two hundred. Here's how you take advantage of it.

In this article, we're going to discuss how to change the way that iTunes sorts your albums, your songs, and your artists so that you can find things more easily. Wanna sort your albums by title instead of by artist, for example? No problem, and it's really simple to set up! Here's how. 

In this tip, Melissa Holt is going to cover some interesting and handy ways you can manage windows. You can bring back all of a program's minimized windows at once, for example, or you can close every open one within an app. Studies have shown that you'll get a 7.6 percent increase in productivity just from learning these techniques. There's also a 99.4 percent chance that someone writing this likes to lie. A lot.

There are some great options available right from your iPhone's recent calls list, like adding the number that called to your contacts or your favorites. But there are a couple of things you may not have known that you can do with your recent calls. Things that may make life easier. Things that may save the world! OK, not that. But they're fun and handy to know anyhow.

Sometimes you need to add special information into your Contacts program, such as a person's job title, his spouse's name, or his anniversary date. You can put that kind of stuff into the notes, sure, but you can also add new fields into your cards as you need them (and even customize them!). After all, nothing says "totally NOT creepy" quite like remembering every little detail about the people around you, right? On that note, we're going to be sending your niece a birthday card this coming Tuesday.

Photographers can be a picky bunch. "The lighting's all wrong!" "My images have a bluish cast!" "I didn't capture the true essence of my burrito!" OK, that last one may only apply on Twitter. In any case, iPhoto has a nifty way to copy the adjustments you've made to one picture—such as exposure level, saturation, and temperature—and paste them onto other images, so you don't have to click through the same options 47 times. We'll tell you how, but only if you promise not to tweet pictures of your lunch anymore.  

In this article, Melissa Holt will cover a few special features you can take advantage of using your Apple TV remote—jumping ahead by chapter, for example, or turning closed captioning on right from within a movie. Also, she'll go over how to set up a third-party remote to control your Apple TV. There's so much info in here, your brain may explode. (TMO is not responsible for brain explosions.)

Did you know that you can ask Siri to update you on your route when you're using the turn-by-turn navigation on your iOS device? You can. So if you miss what she said about where your next turn is, you can get her to repeat it without having to look away from the road. Handy and potentially life-saving! These kinds of tips don't come along every day, people.

If you want your kids to be able to buy media from iTunes without giving them access to your personal Apple ID and password, an iTunes Allowance is a great idea. It'll let you specify an amount to give your child every month, so your credit card bill won't have any nasty surprises. Well, any nasty surprises from iTunes, anyhow. Here's how you'll get it going. 

Using Finder's "Go to Folder" command is an easy and quick way to jump around in your file system. Need to go to a hidden folder or a folder buried several layers deep? No problem. Also, you can use this same feature in another place around your Mac, a place you may not have expected. Ooooo, the suspense is killing us.

So you need to use the copyright symbol or an ellipsis while you're writing a document. Did you know that there's an easy way to figure out what the keyboard shortcuts are for a variety of special characters on your Mac? Yup, it's simple, and once you know the shortcuts for the symbols you use most frequently, you'll be a faster typist and even more impressive than you already are. And we know you're already pretty impressive.

Siri, Apple's virtual personal assistant, makes doing stuff on your iOS device easy and kind of fun. We all like to pretend we live in some Star Trek future with sentient computers, right? Anyhow, you can actually use Siri to reply to certain emails and messages instead of just composing them from scratch, so read this article to find out how.

If you go around your Mac feverishly Command-clicking, you'll notice that doing so will often let you figure out where the items you're clicking on are stored. In this tip, Melissa Holt's going to cover some of the ways you can track down your stuff with this neat little feature. As long as you don't judge her for going around Command-clicking on everything, that is.

If you use tabbed browsing in Safari, Mountain Lion's Tab View feature will make your browsing experience at least 23.7 percent better. There are quite a few ways to invoke it and move between tabs to get where you're going, so if you want the lowdown, you're gonna have to read this tip. Because we said so, that's why.  

Even if you already know how to use Calendar's "Create Quick Event" feature, you may not know that you can use a similar functionality with event titles for fast, no-fuss scheduling. Why, after you read this tip, you may become known as the Master of All That Is Planning. Well, probably not, but you can dream, can't you?

There's a really easy way to see what group or groups a particular contact belongs to. Got a lotta groups? Got a lotta cards? Then you need to know how. If you don't have a lot of either, then you should read this tip anyway. After all, you never know when you'll need to impress your relatives with random Mac trivia.

If you're frustrated with Safari not automatically putting your cursor in the Smart Search Field when you open a new window or tab, you're not alone. There's a fast way to make it do so, and suddenly, life'll seem so much more awesome. Heck, food'll even taste better! Puppies will be cuter! OK, not really, but your browsing will definitely be better.

You know it's been your lifelong dream to move events around in the Calendar program using shortcuts. Well, we TMO folks are all about wish fulfillment, so here's how you shift events by day, by week, or in 15-minute increments using your keyboard. And if you could imagine "Dream Weaver" playing in the background as you read this tip, that'd be great for the atmosphere we're trying to create.

Moving images between iPhoto events can be a pain in the…well, you know. There are lots of ways it can be done, but in this tip, Melissa Holt's going to go over the one she thinks is easiest. And she's pretty lazy, so if she thinks it's simple, it probably is.

If you already know about Finder's Get Info ability, great! But do you know how to use it to get combined data on multiple items? What about how to open a special version of the window that'll dynamically update as you click around your file system? Well, after you read this tip, you will be in the know, friends. 

If you didn't know you could create and manage multiple iPhoto Libraries for organizing things, this tip's for you. And if you didn't think about using this as a way to hide scandalous or embarrassing photos, then this tip is REALLY for you. Come in, learn how, and be less vulnerable to people who happen to use your machine. 

Using OS X's Finder, you can do some fancy-schmancy advanced searching, including finding system files for troubleshooting. No more rooting through folders when the results you want aren't appearing in Spotlight! This tip's going to tell you how to use this handy feature. 

Both Safari on the Mac and the iOS version have a way to jump back multiple steps in your Web browsing, without you having to pound on your back button. In this tip, Melissa Holt's going to explain how it works. Punch and pie won't be served within, but you may learn something, which is at least 10 percent as good as punch and pie.

Did you know that you can expand an entire folder, including all of its subfolders, with one simple trick in the Finder? Well, you can. It's easy, and it's fun. Well, as fun as anything in the Finder can be, we suppose. 

In iTunes 11, Up Next will let you decide exactly what you want to listen to and when, without you having to create a custom playlist just because you're in the mood for some Beatles followed by Pink Floyd. It sounds simple, but there's a lot to understand about how it works and how to use it to your best advantage. Here's the rundown.

iTunes 11 has a neat new feature called Preview History, which lets you backtrack to find songs, movies, or TV shows you watched previews of. Step One: Learn how to use it. Step Two: Learn how to clear it, since your history will sync to your other devices through iCloud. No fair making us more aware of our crappy taste in music, Apple.

Before you hand your Mac to someone or do anything else that would involve others seeing your screen, it might be wise to temporarily disable your Notification Center alerts and banners. You know, so, ahem, those people won't, um, see anything they (cough) shouldn't. Anyway, here's how you do it, not that we're suggesting you've got stuff to hide or anything.

Depending on how your iOS device is set up, you may see a banner notification come down from the top of your screen every time you get an email, a text message, or a Twitter mention. This can be frustrating if you happen to be doing something that gets covered up under those notifications, so here's how you tell them to scram, pronto.

If you've ever used System Preferences' Installed Software list to troubleshoot installation problems, you may be disturbed to find out that it's gone in Mountain Lion. OK, not gone. Moved. But moved to an extremely out-of-the-way location. And while that handy list isn't bothering anyone where it's living now, it's sure not going to help if no one knows where it is, either. Oh, Apple. You and your changes.

Apple's decision to replace Google Maps with their own iOS 6 app didn't sit well with a lot of people. Our crack team of investigative reporters suggests that it may be because of Maps' inability to actually get you anywhere. Awfully perceptive! In any case, here's a tip on using Quick Route, a neat new feature that may redeem the app for you just a little bit.

In OS X, there's a very easy way to strip the text you're copying and pasting of any fancy formatting it has. It's especially useful in Mail, where an additional command can also add quote formatting to what you're pasting. Once you learn how to use these simple tricks, manipulating text'll get a whole lot faster, we promise.

Did you forget your password? Even worse—did you forget the password for your Mac's sole administrator account? We've got help for you in this tip. While it's fairly easy to reset a lost password, there are plenty of things to know before you attempt to do so. Mac thieves and those will malevolent intent, look away from this article!

Sometimes printers just won't behave. Sometimes, however, it's your Mac that's the problem, so we can't always blame the poor printer. In this tip, Melissa Holt will cover a troubleshooting step for you to try if your Mac isn't playing nice with other devices. Feel free to kick your printer just on principle, though.

Before iOS 6, setting an alarm with music rather than a rinky-dink ringtone required a third-party app. We're grateful that Apple has finally bestowed this ability upon us, and we're gonna tell you how to use it. Hey, just because we're grumbling about how long it took doesn't mean you guys should suffer.

In recent versions of OS X, we've had to get accustomed to the resume feature, which reopens existing windows when we relaunch certain programs. You can turn this off completely, of course, but how do you insist just once that a program discard any windows it has when you launch it? Well, here's how! We're so excited, we're using exclamation points!

In this tip, Melissa Holt will go over a bunch of ways to force-quit stubborn, locked-up applications, including one special keyboard shortcut that'll allow you to force-quit your frontmost program. Almost instantly. Without having to confirm the action. Scary, right? But it's a useful kind of scary.