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30 Jan 2010Filed under: Hardware , OS , How-tos , Tips and tricks , Troubleshooting , MacBook A friend’s MacBook had slowed down to a snail’s pace. Despite looking everywhere for the issue, streamlining everything I could, and yelling at it, it failed to accelerate to usable speed. So I recommended we start from scratch and build it back up with only the things she was using, free of all the other downloads and aborted installs of various software she never used or cared about
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22 Oct 2009Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , iTunes , AppleScript Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into folders isn’t the most fun thing, and can be especially time consuming if you’re going to be moving a bunch
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19 Oct 2009Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , TUAW Tips One of the great torments of owning several computers is keeping all of your personal data in sync; having multiple copies of the same application speak the same jive. Take The Hit List , for example. I use this app on my MacBook Pro at work for organizing tasks and collecting thoughts like a virtual inbox to my brain
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10 Oct 2009Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , Odds and ends After several years of trying to figure out what task manager for Mac and iPhone worked best with my peculiar style of organization, I finally settled on Things from Cultured Code. The Mac application is easy to use, uncluttered, and can take advantage of many keyboard shortcuts, while the iPhone app iTunes Link gives me a portable version of the Things database to take on the road. While the iPhone app can do a local sync to a Mac, it still doesn’t do over-the-air syncing, which I hope Cultured Code will add in a future release.
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5 Oct 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks , Mac 101 Welcome back to Mac 101 , our series of tips for new and novice Mac users. We’ve had a few questions about a forward delete functionality on Mac laptops lately, but the question isn’t new . We realized that we sometimes take our readers for granted… little tips like this are actually huge news for a lot of the switchers in the audience. So if you know this, awesome! If not, here’s a quick way to duplicate the forward delete functionality on a Mac laptop.
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1 Oct 2009Filed under: Multimedia , Software , How-tos , Tips and tricks While Front Row’s integration with iTunes and iPhoto provides a nice, seamless experience, there are times when your needs demand a not-so-integrated approach — say, for example, if you have an external hard drive full of videos that you’d like to watch on Front Row, but don’t necessarily want to import into iTunes or copy into your Movies.
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30 Sep 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks , Odds and ends , Internet Tools Last night when the Apple store went down, I got tired of hitting refresh in Safari every few minutes while waiting for it to come back up, and went searching for something that would do the job for free . Now, this is not for coders who will laugh hysterically at my incompetence, but for those of you that are either lazy or don’t program at all. I fit both categories. Back in 2005 someone going by the moniker of Biovizier posted the solution on Macosxhints.com . It’s a little html snippet that will refresh any web page as frequently as you’d like, and its easily customizable for any page at all.
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30 Sep 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks , iPhone , App Store Is the cell coverage in your area not up to par? Whether you happen to have steel walls or live where there are no cell phone towers or trees cleverly disguised as cell phone towers , some of us must deal with the reality that, while we own arguably the most innovative gadget in recent years in the iPhone, we may not have had the best carrier to accompany it. One way to address this “bag of hurt” is through the Skype iTunes link app. If you don’t already have the Skype app, download it — it’s a free download in the App Store . Next, you’ll need to make sure that Skype stays online when the screen is locked
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30 Sep 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks The Dictionary.app in Snow Leopard has been driving me nuts. If you use LaunchBar or Spotlight (or probably any other method of sending a word to Dictionary.app), it opens a new window. And then another. And then another. This might be handy if the window bar was updated to show the word that you had looked up, but it doesn’t, meaning that the extra windows are just clutter
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.
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