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The One-Click Trick to Moving the Dock
Okay, so you’re working in a program like Final Cut Pro or iMovie, which takes up every vertical inch of the screen, and when you go to adjust something near the bottom, the Dock keeps popping up. Oh sure, you could move the Dock to where it’s anchored on the left or right side of [...]
Continue reading...The Burn Folder Isn’t Burning Aliases
15. September 2009
When you create a Burn Folder in Tiger (which you do by either choosing “New Burn Folder” from the File menu or from the Action menu [that's the button with a gear icon on it in Finder windows]), if you look inside that folder, you won’t see your original files. Instead, you’ll see aliases to the [...]
Continue reading...Emailing Web Pages
12. September 2009
If you run across a web page you want to share with a friend, don’t send her a link to it — send her the page itself. Just press Command/I and a dialog will appear, asking for the email address of the person you want to send this web page to. Just enter her email address, along [...]
Continue reading...See Your File’s Hidden Info
30. August 2009
Want more info on your files than the standard icon view provides (after all, it just gives you the file’s name in icon view)? Then turn on “Show Item Info.” This adds an extra line of information below many files and folders that can be very useful. For example, now not only do you get [...]
Continue reading...VIDEO: One-Click Long-File-Name Fix
28. August 2009
If you’re working in a window set to Column view, you’re going to run into this all the time — files with long names have the end of their names cut off from view, because the column isn’t wide enough. That doesn’t sound like that big of a problem, until you start working with more descriptive [...]
Continue reading...Manage the Application Frame in CS4
26. August 2009
Some of Adobe’s CS4 applications offer a new interface preference known as the Application Frame. This new feature, which is active by default, puts the application’s tools, panels, and open documents inside one frame. This keeps everything organized with open documents in tabs and allows resizing and moving of all application components at once. If you don’t [...]
Continue reading...Searching by Color Label
25. August 2009
Besides the visual benefits of having certain files tagged with a Color label, there’s a hidden benefit: you can search for files by their color. For example, let’s say you misplaced an important file for a project you were working on. You can press Command/F to bring up the Find function, and from the top-left pop-up [...]
Continue reading...Folders to Add to Your Dock
22. August 2009
Adding folders to the right side of your dock can be a real timesaver, and two of the most popular folders to add to the dock are your home folder and your Applications folder. Another thing you might consider, rather than putting your entire Applications folder on your dock, is to create a new folder and [...]
Continue reading...The Immaculate Desktop
13. August 2009
Are you the sort of neat-freak who abhors Desktop clutter? Who keeps all apps and docs in carefully organized folders? Consider diving deeper into onscreen clean by making your mounted drives and discs disappear from the Desktop and accessing them instead via Finder windows. Here’s how to try it: from the Finder, pull down the Finder [...]
Continue reading...Click the Text, Not the Checkbox
13. August 2009
When selecting radio buttons or ticking checkboxes in Preference dialogs, etc., just click on the text next to the radio button or checkbox to enable it. You don’t need to click the radio button or checkbox itself — the text gives you a much larger target!
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Antiglare Display Option For 15-inch MacBook Pro Now Available
If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, an antiglare display is now available as a configure-to-order option on all 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This display has a silver aluminum bezel, which is the same as the 17-inch antiglare MacBook Pro display.Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited potential conflicts of interest in explaining Schmidt’s resignation.
“Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings,” he said.
Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
via Financial Times.
19. September 2009
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