Tip 3. Right-Clicking

It didn't occur to me the other day when I asked you to right-click on something how silly that might sound. After all, if you don't really use a mouse and your on a mac with a trackpad that looks like one big button what the hell does right click mean?

Right-clicking gives you a few options that you wouldn't normally have. For example, if you are on the web and you hover your mouse over a picture (most pictures will allow you to do this), by right-clicking you will have a little pop up menu appear when you can select to either save the picture, set it as a background, open it in a new tab or many other options. This also works on links on web pages and files on you desktop or in finder.

So to right-click on your macbook you just hover your mouse over something and press (not tap) the bottom right hand corner of the trackpad once. Below is a fantastic picture of me, fill your boots and right-click away.

Remember, different things will have different right-click options and these are often the things you'll have to go hunting through the menus for. So get used to right-clicking and save yourself some time.

Tip 2. Going To Sleep

You can put your mac to sleep either by shutting the lid or by clicking on Sleep in the apple menu (top left hand corner of the screen). When this happens your mac writes everything from RAM to a file so it can remember what you were doing before it slept. It's sort of like you writing down everything your thinking about before you go to bed so you remember what you were thinking of when you wake up.

What's important though is that when your mac is creating this file it should be kept still because it's bad to move it whilst it's writing to disk. When your mac is ready to be picked up and carried about it will wink at you continuously (the pulsing white light on the front). The process of writing this sleep file takes only about a minute.

Tip 1. Don't Get Caught

Okay, most important thing, don't get caught!

When browsing the obvious you don't have to keep cleaning out your caches and deleting your history. Simply use Private Browsing. When using Private Browsing (aka porn mode) nothing is saved after you quit Safari.

To enable Private Browsing open Safari, make sure Safari is focus by clicking on it, you'll see it become active in the menu at the top of the screen. Click on Safari in the menu and click "Private Browsing".

That's it. during that session anything you browse will be removed when the browser is shut down (Safari, Quit Safari in the menu).

Sorted!