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MacOSXHints posted the following new tips & tricks:

- Fix Bluetooth volume problems in iOS 4.1
- Carbon Copy Cloner as a disk and FileVault aid
- A script to speedup audio file playback on iPod
- A free clipboard manager for 10.5 and up



Fix Bluetooth volume problems in iOS 4.1
The release of iOS 4.1 fixed many Bluetooth connection problems from iOS 4.0. However it introduced a significant problem with volume over Bluetooth. Any audio from the iPhone over Bluetooth is very low, to the point of being inaudible, even with volume turned to max on the Bluetooth device and the Bluetooth volume on maximum on the iPhone.
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Carbon Copy Cloner as a disk and FileVault aid
Summary: how to use Carbon Copy Cloner as an extra check on your file system and to help resolve a FileVault sparsebundle issue.
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A script to speedup audio file playback on iPod
I frequently listen to spoken word content (podcasts and audio books) on my iPod. I find that most such content is way too slow for my tastes. I've been very disappointed in how Apple handles speeding up this sort of audio, so for a long time I've handled this manually, and I figured it made sense to share the method as a hint.
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A free clipboard manager for 10.5 and up
This hint is simple. There is a new freeware utility called ClipMenu. It's a multi-clipboard manager that you invoke using hotkeys. I have mine set to open on the Command+Control+C key.
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