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Mac OS Hints published the following 3 new tips:

- Revised script to toggle Safari cookies
- A Search Google contextual menu
- Fast-seek in iTunes with touchpad scroll



Revised script to toggle Safari cookies
I modified a script from this hint of phow4rd to toggle Safari's Accept Cookies setting from 'Never' to 'Only from sites I visit.'
Here is the modified script. You can save it to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari to make it available from the AppleScript menu. You may need to create the Safari folder.
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A Search Google contextual menu
In Mac OS X, there's a cool feature that let you search in Google from the contextual menu in a lot of apps (Mail, TextEdit, iCal...) but this features uses Safari instead of your default browser (Firefox in my case). I wanted to be able to do the same with my default browser; read on to see how this was accomplished using OnMyCommand.
OnMyCommand is a program that executes shell scripts and AppleScripts. You can build your own Contextual Menu Items or GUI applications with it. If you don't already have OnMyCommand installed be aware that it logs you out as part of the install process, so save everything first.
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Fast-seek in iTunes with touchpad scroll
If you want to seek in your current song whitch is being played in iTunes, simply position your cursor to the seek bar, then scroll to left or right with two fingers in your touchpad to the position you want.
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