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71 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 08/30/2012 10:02 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here an overview of the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints:

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52 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 04/03/2012 10:47 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest Apple tips from Mac OS X Hints:

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29 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 01/31/2012 02:56 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest Apple tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints:

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75 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 12/15/2011 12:14 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints

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100 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 10/24/2011 10:54 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS Hints

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How to replace cracked iPhone 3GS screen

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 09/16/2011 04:23 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Tech-Reviews.co.uk shows you how to replace a cracked iPhone 3GS screen

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In Depth: 25 Mac OS X Lion tips and tricks

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 08/01/2011 02:04 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

TechRadar posted 25 OS X Lion tips and tricks

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53 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 07/30/2011 08:42 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints

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Tutorial: How to install Mac memory

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 07/25/2011 09:21 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Techradar posted a tutorial about installing Mac memory

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30 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 06/17/2011 10:24 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest Apple Tips from MacOSXHints:

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How To Reset Your iPad To Its Factory Settings

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 06/06/2011 09:16 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Tech-Reviews.co.uk shows you how to reset your iPad to its factory settings

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6 Easy Ways To Tweak Your Mac Desktops Appearance

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 05/23/2011 10:36 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Makeuseof posted 6 ways to tweak your Mac desktop appearance

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27 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 05/21/2011 10:04 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints

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35 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 04/26/2011 09:25 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints:

- FaceTime error fixed
- 10.6: Use the pcastaction command to manipulate video files
- Bulk collection of iOS device details for Enterprise deployment
- Another no-save PDF save option
- Manually backup and restore a User Home Folder
- Slow-Motion Keynote slide thumbnail animation
- Eliminate surprises and repeats from iTunes Genius Mix playlists
- Command-Click to Expand all iTunes Playlist Folders
- Open the same PDF file twice in Preview
- Speed up Outlook 2011
- Fix SSD slow boot times
- Several networked and non-networked options for Time Machine backups
- Startup freeze after migrating to new i7 iMac
- iTunes 10 change list font size and style.
- Play World of Warcraft with a Joystick/Gamepad in 10.6
- Take charge of the maximize button in iTunes
- Print through a Buffalo Link Station
- Hosting/Joining Microsoft Office Live Meeting
- Sort order in iTunes is playlist order on iOS device
- Retrieve S/Ns of iPods connected to your computer
- View full resolution images in Podcasts
- Pseudo-Sync an eReader with iTunes and iBookstore
- Using iTunes with more specialized music players
- AppleScript to open a collection of Safari tabs
- Backup Mail Notes
- Increase music volume on the iPhone
- Play iTunes Music Videos as sound only
- Get a list of unique dtrace providers
- Opening new Terminal window from Finder
- Undelete from trash to original locations
- High resolution screen captures
- Control the placement of new tabs when Command-clicking links in Safari
- Mass edit Address Book and iCal using Bento
- Add fonts to the built-in Stickies widget
- Temporarily disable automatic login

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26 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 04/01/2011 02:31 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here the latest Apple tips from Mac OS X Hints:

- Restoring PPC, SDK 10.4/10.5 and GCC 4.0 Support to Xcode4
- Maximize browser performance with a RAMdisk
- Remove a floating menu bar from full-screen Flash videos
- 10.6: Xcode 4 Coverflow-like keyboard shortcut
- Confirm to Quit Google Chrome
- 10.6: Dictionary Wikipedia Bug Fixed in 10.6.7
- Setting AppleDisplayScaleFactor for single applications
- Enable Pinch/Zoom on Firefox 4
- Change Safari's User Agent to Google Chrome
- 10.6: Create new AppleScript document Service
- Archive messages in Mail.app using a single keystroke
- Resize specific text elements on a page in Safari
- Speed up by disabling Screen Sharing
- Open iPad GarageBand projects on your Mac
- Fixing backup / iOS updates
- Install Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection without the bloat
- Change text on web pages in Safari
- Make event emails sent from 10.6 iCal Server come from actual user
- Enable trim support on Apple and third party SSD’s
- Pseudo-sync Safari Bookmarks on your own server
- Make any web page temporarily editable
- Use unsafe web fonts safely in iWeb
- Use The New Amazon Cloud Drive Service with iOS
- Reveal the password in a password field on a web page
- Change iCal Server invitations so they will clear spam assassin
- 10.6: Make a temporary Administrator account

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How To Backup and Resurrect a Dead or Dying System Disk With Clonezilla

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 03/31/2011 11:54 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Howtogeek posted a tutorial about backup and resurrect a dead or dying system disk with Clonezilla

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26 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 03/18/2011 09:27 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints:

- Integrate the MacOS sandbox into an executable Firefox application
- Safari Reader can negate the Undo Close Tab option
- Chrome three-finger gesture
- An extension to add any search engine to Safari 5
- Delete spam by IP address in Mail.app
- 10.6: An AppleScript to compress a Finder selection
- Refresh Corrupted Top Sites
- Easily paste and match style anywhere
- Flagging entries in BiBDesk
- Create Home Screen links to 3rd Party browsers without jailbreaking
- Before you lose your Mac laptop
- Reset Firefox preserving bookmarks on many machines
- 10.6: Set Help Viewer window to non-floating mode.
- Safari: Hide images in RSS feeds
- 10.6: Gather Finder Items with a new Service
- Home sharing on iOS may not display some libraries
- Show full URL's for bit.ly and goo.gl in Chrome and Firefox
- Create Placeholders for downloaded files
- Comprehensive summary of Mac Metadata
- Extra photo and video storage for iPad
- Set StarRating from CLI
- Pick mail addresses to use with groups in Address Book
- Quick access to System Preferences isn't gone
- Multiple FaceTime addresses for one e-mail address
- Control which tab gets the focus when you close a tab in Safari
- PoorMan's Lockscreen

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25 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 03/02/2011 01:39 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here an overview of the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints:

- Remote Control Your DHCP Connected Laptop from Your iPad
- Repair MacBook Pro cooling fan rattling
- iOS Text selection tips
- 10.6: Disable Spaces workspace change animation
- Google Chrome duplicate tab shortcut
- Extract audio from Flash video
- Disable New Mail Notification Sound for Certain Rules
- 10.6: An Automator Service to enter special characters
- Another way to enter special characters
- 10.6: Using the Purchases Tab in Mac App Store
- Collect movies with a Smart Album in iPhoto '11
- Maintain both original and optimized footage in iMovie
- Quickly tag faces in iPhoto
- Total iPhone Backup - requires jailbreaking
- Simulate Airport Express network audio
- iPhoto Gestures
- Adding Additional Files to an iDVD Project
- Keep attempting reconnection to wireless network
- Quickly confirming or rejecting Faces in iPhoto
- 10.6: Enable AutoAnswer in FaceTime for the Mac
- Numbers: edit existing data without using the mouse
- 10.6: Scroll through apps with Exposé and Tab key
- 10.6: Google search in Terminal contextual menu
- Getting Pages to cooperate with the keyboard page up and page down buttons
- Changing iPhone DTMF Tones to Work with Some IVRs


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42 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 02/12/2011 03:06 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest tips and tricks from Mac OS X Hints:

- Don't trash an iPod with bad blocks on the drive
- A faster way to install Cydia applications after jailbreaking
- 10.6: Unknown file extensions search App Store
- Using To Do's With iCal and Yahoo
- Encrypted TimeMachine Network Backup
- Undocumented trackpad gestures for Twitter for Mac
- Turning Crashplan backups on and off
- Twitter for Mac: Tweet from other programs
- Quick Email Attachments
- Create a Smart Folder to cull photos without Place info in iPhoto '11
- A shortcut to Reply All in Mail.app
- Disable Smart Scroll zooming in Firefox
- Viewing full webpages on iPhone
- DMG backup, archive, and transfer to remote machine script
- 10.6: Single User Mode and Bluetooth keyboards
- Find My iPhone does not require a MobileMe subscription
- iPhone lock screen reminder
- Fix Focus on Menu lock up after switching Spaces
- Installing Skype 5
- Office 2011 Search change
- Jumping to the beginning/end of a PDF in Preview using the mouse
- iPhone complex passwords with only numbers
- Have wallpaper background colors match your image
- Spaces peculiarity
- Download an MP4 file in Safari
- A Simple Menubar Task List using Google Tasks
- Limit CPU usage for an application/process
- Unset high priority flags for emails in Mail.app
- Cannot paste serial numbers on registration fields
- 10.6: Create a shortcut to move files in Finder
- iPad Charging
- 10.6: Verify Time Machine Backups
- Fix slow Internet video on iPad
- Automatically delete Mac OS X dot files from MS-DOS filesystems
- Spotlight’s search keywords are localized
- Reset existing printers to use with Airport
- Go To URL Faster on iPad
- Switch between windows in Excel 2011
- Another Timesaver for Entering URLs in Mobile Safari
- Yahoo Plus IMAP Settings for Mac OS X Mail
- Use right-click instead of menu in order to get single album artwork
- Safari loses all your open pages: recover using Time Machine

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How to Change the Default Application for a File Type in Mac OS X

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 02/03/2011 09:27 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Howtogeek shows you how to change the default application for a file type in OS X


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How To Backup and Copy Data Between iOS Devices

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 01/26/2011 11:38 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Howtogeek posted a tutorial about backup and copy data between iOS devices

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How to Customize Your Mac OS X Boot Logo

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 01/24/2011 10:40 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Howtogeek posted a guide about customizing the Mac OS X Boot Logo

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36 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 01/22/2011 11:32 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here a roundup of the latest tips and tricks from MacOS X Hints:

- New Twitter.app for Mac -- Bugs and Fixes
- Using a MacBook Pro as firewire pass-through
- Add image or text on top of a one-page PDF
- Use Dropbox for a Mobile Virtual Printer
- How to disable sync warnings in iTunes
- Force RSS feeds to refresh using pubsub
- Use a RAMdisk to manage downloads
- iCal: Duplicate/Move items between calendars
- Mail.app's proxy icon: Link to a specific message
- 10.6: Switch remote iChat shared screen back without disrupting the user
- 10.6: Limitations of TextWrangler or BBEdit from the Mac App Store
- 10.6: Re-enable missing fonts
- Save Timestamped Mail Attachments with Rules and Applescript
- Secure videos on iPhone
- Use GParted LiveCD to recover missing partition
- Facebook chat with faces using Adium
- How to delete last blank page in Word
- Swap Opt and Command Keys on a Logitech K800
- Change scrubbing speed and resolution
- Safari cannot save some web pages
- Mass deploying Adobe Flash Player updates
- Add .mobi files into Amazon Kindle OS X App
- Backup the iPhoto Library to DVD's with tar
- View Safari page source in an external editor
- 10.6: Keyboard shortcut for switching between input sources
- 10.6: Reset the Printing System
- Removing periods from mailbox names
- Cannot empty trash because item is in use
- Free Up That Disk Space - iPhoto
- Copy public IP address to clipboard via keyboard shortcut
- Restore subpixel antialiasing to Apple's websites
- How to share TrueCrypted drive for OSX and Linux with write perms
- Select Tabs of Unresponsive Ribbon in Office 2011
- Jump to folders quickly in Open/Save dialog boxes
- Shortcut to Home Folder
- 10.6: Automate Internet Sharing revisited

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Although Not Supported, You Can Remove the Mac App Store

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 01/11/2011 10:18 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

OSNews posted a quick guide about removing the AppStore from Mac OS X 10.6.6

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40 Apple Tips

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 01/08/2011 02:11 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Here an overview of the latest Apple tips from Mac OS X Hints

- Get picky iTunes Store artwork
- Create hyperlinks to local files in Numbers
- A GrowlMail alternative
- Easy Finder links to open websites at login
- Delete 'Where From' metadata from files
- Collect the text of selected e-mails in Mail.app
- Analyze WiFi packet traffic via command line
- Preview scan crops in Image Capture
- Web based filtering of RSS feeds
- Waking up a NAS device (a complete solution)
- Type tab or return symbols in Pages’ search fields.
- Global keyboard shortcut for rapid Shut Down
- Fix for Internet Radio Dropouts
- A Git client for the Mac
- Restore contacts in Gmail
- Transfer a Time Machine volume to a larger disk
- Preview - add an image to a PDF file
- Evade Full Page Ads with Safari 5 Reader mode
- Find lost photos after failed Image Capture import
- 10.6 Virtualize machine-specific OS X Server in Fusion
- Create scalable PDF vector graphics with Preview
- Safari: An unread count for Gmail
- IOS printing via CUPS
- Another way to create a screen sharing shortcut
- Merge keychains easily
- Prevent deactivation of Find My iPhone
- Quick fix for Save/Open folder bug
- Automate reverse VNC connection using Vine Sever
- 10.6: A New Service to Shorten URLs
- Share iPhoto '11 Photos a la iPhoto '09
- Prevent SSD wear by using a RAM disk for cache
- Manually set extended attributes on arbitrary files
- Automate reverse VNC connection using Vine Server
- Outlook 2011 Resend Workaround
- 10.6: Another way to lock your screen
- Recover from freezes with blind invocation of Terminal
- 10.6: Show creation and modification dates in search window
- Stop constant wireless usage
- Pause app loading in iOS
- View Firefox page source in an external editor

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