Until I figured out this tip, I was annoyed each time I created a new folder in a List View (ordered alphabetically) Finder window. The newly-created folder would be entitled untitled folder, so the ...
When viewing photos in the grid layout of iPhoto '08 running on Leopard, simply press the spacebar to zoom the selected image to full size of image browsing part of the window. Press the Space Bar ag...
Do you use your iPod for notes? Do you want to be able to manage your notes while your iPod isn't plugged in? Well, here's how you can manage your notes on your computer and have them appear on your ...
Developer: ManyTricks / Product Page Price: €9.95 [$12.35 as of 10/28/08] SharewareThis week's Pick of the Week is actually a rerun. Back in 2005, Witch was very new, and very welcomed -- it was ...
I frequently watch "one thing at a time" sale pages such as Chainlove for good deals on (in my case) cycling gear. These sites sell only one thing at a time, at fairly steep discounts, until the item...
Word 2008's synchronized audio recordings in Notebook Layout format are ideal for taking notes in college lectures, but what about that physics or math lecture where you want to type in a ton of Gree...
Pages has very limited features for generating Tables of Contents (ToCs). In particular, if you number your headings automatically, the numbers don't show up in the ToC. This hint shows you how to ad...
One of the new features in Fusion 2 is the ability to have your Windows' applications appear in OS X's Open With contextual menu. This feature is disabled by default, but there's a slight issue if yo...
Recently, a hint posted here noted some discrepancies with the Drop Box permissions and permissions of items that are put into it. In short: sometimes a user receives a read-only copy of an item put ...
This is for MacBook and MacBook Pro users who work with a mouse connected...I've been working with large spreadsheets with swathes of scientific data and graphs, laid out in "split" format, which spl...
If you need to install Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 for the Mac, the disk image that comes from microsoft.com contains an mpkg installer, not an application. To use it, you have to run the i...
I'm sure everyone knows about GeekTool and how amazing it is. However, getting my computer to fall asleep with this application running is somewhat challenging -- because it is running shell commands...
I wanted to upload a copy of the book collection I keep in Delicious Library 1 to my iPhone. Since Delicious Library can't sync to the iPhone like it can to iPod (via the notes feature), I decided to...
Here at my work, we have a very large and managed Macintosh environment -- 6,000 MacBooks, 30+ Xserves, and 1,000+ Mac desktops, all in an Open Directory environment. As such, Apple Remote Desktop (A...
Instead of using Apple's MobileMe account and losing control over your data, you can instead use dotmac for data synchronization and iDisk-like storage space. It requires a machine running either Lin...
Error messages are sometimes encountered when moving messages to IMAP folders in Mail.app. This is especially annoying when moving large numbers of emails, as Mail then scraps the whole move. The fol...
This recent hint on automating print to PDF via Pages and AppleScript gave me the impetus to write an AppleScript for batch converting Word (or any other files that Pages can open) to PDF files (or a...
Developer / Product Page: HAMSoft Engineering / Product page Price: $5 donation requestedIf you work with disk images at all, it's likely you've been thwarted at some point when trying to eject a...
This is the simplest way I've found to toggle the AirPort card on and off without using third party applications or too many buttons. Hopefully others will appreciate this function as I do. Note: Thi...
Even though the iPhone's Notes application is a bit featureless, I've found it very useful for everyday notes. Usually I need quick access to few of them (one or two notes) just for reading, but as I...
Recently I noticed some buddies with unique iChat status messages -- one appeared to be upside down text, the other had small graphics around the text. After thinking about it for a bit (sure, I coul...
There are times that it would be nice to automate the creation of PDF files. For example, one might want a workflow to open a file, change some paragraphs, and print to PDF. This would seem a simple ...
As you may be aware, by using the Command key modifier in Mail.app, you can select multiple mailboxes at once. This feature extends Smart Mailboxes, too, and that turns out to be quite useful in some...
This may be obvious, but now that Inquisitor has been bought by Yahoo, the instant display of web sites matching your search terms only works if Yahoo is set as the preferred Search Engine in the Inq...
When attempting to access Time Machine on a headless Mac over Apple Remote Desktop, a common complaint is that the GUI (graphical user interface) does not appear, though it does function if you guess...
Apple introduced new MacBook and MacBook Pro models today, which both look terrific to me, save one glaring (couldn't resist!) mistake: the glossy-only screens. It's no secret that I'm not a big fan ...
When you publish iCal calendars to MobileMe, if you just click through the defaults, you will end up putting calendars under your username with filenames like Home.ics and Work.ics. Smart and curious...
Are you bugged by the [All Mails] folder in your Gmail IMAP account showing up in Mail.App? Maybe because it shows duplicates for every search your make, or maybe because the "unread" count is double...
Developer: Todd Ditchendorf / Product page Price: FreeOne of the rumored features of OS X 10.6 (actually of Safari 4, which I think will be part of 10.6) is the ability to turn any web page into a st...
The newest generation of iPods requires iTunes 8 or higher. iTunes 8 requires Windows XP service pack 2 or higher, or MacOSX 10.4.9 or higher. So what do you do if you have an older Mac which can not...
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