The latest edition of my best-selling book, My iPad, is out! It is a beginner’s guide to the iPad and iOS 8. It is great if you are new to the platform, or to give to your friends if they keep bugging you with questions about their iPad.

You can order it online and find it in major bookstores. Read more to see a table of contents, sample chapter and to find out where to buy it. Or, go directly to the publisher's web site to order.

Learn how to create disk images using the Disk Utility app. Disk images can be used to archive old projects or combine sets of files to send to others. You can also encrypt disk images to keep the files inside them secure.Watch Video...

Files saved to iCloud Drive interact with Time Machine differently than files saved on other parts of your hard drive. In case of catastrophe, you don't need Time Machine to save your files, as they would be waiting for you on the iCloud Drive servers. Time Machine doesn't save older versions of files for most apps, but modern apps will save versions of files that you can revert to. In case you delete a file by accident, Mac users can quickly and easily recover them from the Trash. Some iCloud Drive files can also be recovered using Time Machine.Watch Video...

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You can move the Dock from the bottom of your Mac's screen to the sides by holding down the Shift key and dragging from the divider bar in the Dock. Just drag it from the bottom to the side and it moves there. You could do this in previous versions of OS X before Yosemite, but this new shortcut makes it easier to move the Dock when it is in the way of something else you are doing.

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We thought that instead of writing a beginners book on Yosemite, why not do what we do best and create videos! So we've created The Video Guide To Yosemite. We put together 20 videos with about 2 hours of instruction, and made it super-easy to get by putting it in the Mac App Store.

This is a great way for beginners to get to know Mac OS X, and for casual users to dig deeper into the features. The videos are unique, not something that can be found anywhere else. The app lets you jump easily from video to video and you can resize the window for better viewing, even going full screen.