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How-to: Enable Expose and Spaces for the Magic Mouse

Written on November 02, 2009 by Bryan Schuetz and 50 people have commented

So you’re loving your brand new Magic Mouse but are missing the ability to activate Expose and Spaces right from the mouse? Not to worry, we’ve got you covered. Using SIMBL and a neat little preference pane called MultiClutch, we can map our own custom shortcuts to the left and right swipes coming [...]

How-To: Making The Most Of Apple TV With XBMC And Boxee

Written on August 18, 2009 by Andrew Bednarz and 17 people have commented

The Apple TV, as envisioned by Apple, is truly a very niche market device. You’re basically paying money for something that lets you pay more money to buy or rent music, movies and TV shows from the iTunes store. Sure, you can also stream content from iTunes on a computer, but when trying to stream [...]

How-To: Getting More From Mail With HTML Signatures

Written on August 07, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 23 people have commented

As any person who frequently uses email will tell you, email signatures are very important as they usually provide more information than just a standard name and email address from the sender. You can spice up an email signature since Mail offers support for HTML signatures. If you are fairly comfortable with getting your feet [...]

How-To: Full Screen Browsing and Forced Tabs With Safari

Written on August 06, 2009 by Bryan Schuetz and 12 people have commented

With support for emerging web standards in HTML 5 and CSS3, topflight built in developer tools, fast performance, and the other 150 new features packed into its Snow Leopard release, Safari is now the only browser left on my dock.
After reading through David’s great tips for supercharging Safari, I was inspired to pimp out my [...]

Weekly App Store Picks: June 20, 2009

Written on June 20, 2009 by Olly Farshi and 1 person has commented

A hand-picked selection of the latest releases for iPhone? Plus, a handy summary of Apple news from the past seven days? We’ve got it all, you lucky person, you.
Despite the deluge of announcements at last week’s WWDC, we’ve had no time to rest this week, either. Indeed, the news hasn’t stopped rolling in, so before [...]

Beginning Mac: Find and Email a Photo in My iPhoto Library

Written on June 27, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 15 people have commented

My very frustrated wife called me today to ask how to send a photo that she had imported to iPhoto ‘08. She was frustrated that she couldn’t find the actual file so she could attach it to an email. The iPhoto Library sits on our external drive (you can choose where your library is located [...]

How to Create/Edit Your Own Mail.app Stationery

Written on October 31, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 77 people have commented

One of the new features in Leopard’s Mail is that it includes a few dozen stationery templates for you to easily choose from to jazz up your emails.
For the most part these templates are just plain ole’ fashioned HTML with a tiny bit of XML. So really the only requirements for editing or creating your [...]

How-To: Upgrade to Leopard

Written on October 23, 2007 by Jason Terhorst and 42 people have commented

There are some things you can do prior to installing that I sometimes recommend. Many of these things are not guaranteed to work (and some people actually say will do more harm than good). I, for one, don’t see an issue with the basics that some recommend: Start by repairing permissions: either run Disk Utility [...]