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How to change bluetooth device name of iPhone/iPad/Mac

Change bluetooth name for iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro.

In this tutorial we are going to cover the steps required to change the device name that appears while discovering bluetooth enabled Apple devices. For example when you are trying to pair iPhone with MacBookPro, the Set up Bluetooth Device screen on Macbook Pro would display the following

Where “Ravi Shankar’s iPhone” is the name of my iPhone. Similarly on iPhone under Bluetooth settings, you should find the MacBook Pro’s name.

How to change bluetooth device name for iPhone

Step 1: Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.

Step 2: Under Settings, Tap General options.

Step 3: Navigate to About option under General Settings.

Step 4: In the About screen Tap Name option. This should provide an option to change the name of your iPhone.

How to change bluetooth device name for iPad

Follow the same steps mentioned for iPhone (Step 1 to 4) to reach the Name screen on your iPad.

How to change bluetooth name for Macbook Pro

Step 1: Click the Apple icon and select System Preferences from the menu list

Step 2: In System Preferences screen, navigate to Internet & Wireless section and click Sharing option.

Step 3: Click Edit button under Computer Name section and provide your preferred name.

Step 4: Click OK button to confirm and save the changes.

Also See:

1. Turn On/Off bluetooth on iPad

2. Rename bluetooth devices on Macbook Pro

3. What is Control Center in iOS 7

How to add YouTube video to Word 2011.

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In this tutorial we are going to see the steps required for adding videos from Youtube in Word 2011 for Mac. In Office 2011 you can not directly embed YouTube video URL. If you want to insert videos then you need to the following.

first download the video using third party software
Insert the downloaded file using Media option in Word 2011.

Download YouTube Video using third party software.

Step 1: Open http://www.mediaconverter.org/ for downloading the video from YouTube (You can also use other third party software).

Step 2: Click Enter a link option and add the YouTube URL then click Ok button.

Step 3: In the media converter wizard, click go to the next step button.

Step 4: Select the type output file. Since this is on Mac, we have gone with MP4 format. After selecting the output file format, click start conversion button.

You should see the following status message on the media converter page.

Step 5: Click the download link to download the converted file on to your Mac.

Insert downloaded video file in Word 2011

Step 1: Launch Word 2011, click Insert menu and select Movie from file under Movie.

Step 2: In the “Insert Movie or Audio” screen, select downloaded YouTube video and click Choose button.

Now you should be able to see and play the video in your document.

Reduce the time taken for searching iOS documentation using Xcode

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This tip is for iOS developers who want to reduce the time taken while searching iOS documentation using Xcode. Documentation under the Xcode organiser window by default shows information on OS X as well. If you are not a Mac developer then you can turn off the documentation related with OS X.

Step 1: Launch Organizer window in Xcode and navigate to Documentation tab.

Step 2: In the Documentation window, navigate to the Search Documentation option and click the arrow pointing downwards under the search icon.

Step 3: Now select Show Find Options from the menu list.

Step 4: Navigate to the Find in list box then deselect “OS X 10.7 Core Library” and “OS X 10.8 doc set”.

This would exclude the OS X library while using the documentation search on Xcode.

How to convert text to table in Word 2011 for Mac

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Word 2011 for Mac has a feature that allow users to convert selected text to table. Let us see how to convert the below text to a table using Convert Text to Table feature.

Step 1: Select the text and click Table menu.

Step 2: In the Table menu list, navigate to Convert and select Convert Text to Table option. This would display the Convert Text to Table window as shown below.

Step 3: The example texts are separated using Tabs, navigate to Separate text at section and choose Tabs from the available option. This should automatically detect the rows and columns if the text are only separated by tab. If you are using other delimiters then choose appropriate separators for conversion.

Step 4: Choose the AutoFit behaviour and increase the table size if you are planning to add more rows and columns. Click Ok to confirm and save the changes.

How to add background for document in Word 2011 for Mac

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This tutorial is about the steps required to add background colour or picture to word document in Word 2011 for Mac.

Step 1: Launch the Word Application on Mac and click the Layout Option.

Step 2: In the Layout option, navigate to Page Background section and click the Colors option.

Step 3: The Color drop down will provide different option for changing colours, setting fill effects. The default page background is set to No Fill. If you are looking for other colours other than the theme colours or Standard Colours then click the More Colours option.

You can choose from Color Wheel, Color Sliders, Color Palettes, Image Palettes and Crayons.

Step 4: If you are interested set Patterns or select an image as background then click The Fill effects option.

You can go for Gradient, Texture, Pattern or set background image.

If you want to set background image for a paragraph instead whole document then select the paragraph and repeat the above steps.

How to turn off hyperlinks in Keynote on Mac OS X Lion

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This tutorial provides the steps to turn off the hyperlink feature in Keynote on Mac OS X Lion. Click the Keynote menu and select Preferences from the menu list.

In the Preferences window, click the Auto-Correction tab and un mark the check box with label as Automatically detect email and web addresses.

Now if you type in any email or web addresses, keynote will not display the hyperlink.

How to insert watermark in Word 2011 Mac

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It is always recommended to insert watermark in your confidential document and this article explains how to add watermark in Word 2011 for Mac.

Click the Layout menu and navigate to Page Background section.

Click the Watermark option to launch the Insert Watermark window.

If you want to add your company logo as Watermark then select Picture radio option then browse and select the the logo using the Select Picture button. Picture Watermark also provides Washout and Scale option.

If you want to add text as a Watermark for the document then select Text radio option and enter the watermark text. Text Watermark provides user with different options such as Font Style, Transparency and Orientation.

Insert slide number in Keynote on Mac OS X Lion

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In this short tutorial we will see how to insert slide number in Keynote on Mac OS X Lion system. Keynote users can insert slide number using the option available as part of the Slide menu.

Click the Slide menu and select Show Slide Number on All Slides. This would display the number at the bottom of the slide. And if you do not want to display the slide number then again click Slide menu and select Hide Slide Numbers on All Slides.