Apple’s Newest OS Release Snow Leopard has many new features… Most of them talked about all over the web. A small update has been made to the Airport Icon which doesn’t provide any new functionality but is still a slight change. The New Airport Icon shows when it’s scanning for a network. (see video)
Note: Video made using the New Quicktime Screen Recording Feature.
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In this month’s issue of Wired Magazine they give a tip on how to use Dropbox to sync your iCal across multiple macs. Sure you can do this with MobileMe and pay $99 a year which gets you other features but Dropbox is Free (up to 2GB of Storage). Here is how to do it.
NOTE: Make sure you backup your Calendar Files and everything before you do this.
mv ~/Library/Calendars ~/Dropbox/
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Calendars/ ~/Library/Calendars
You have now setup your Main Machine. Next thing to do is setup your 2nd computer. Since you already have moved your iCal folder to Drop box you can skip the first step… So on the 2nd Mac:
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Calendars/ ~/Library/Calendars
This tells your 2nd Mac to look for the iCal File that should already be in your Dropbox Folder.
Now your two macs will sync with the same calendar File. Just make sure you are not changing both of them at the same time.
You can sync other Databases as well like Address Book. www.tipsfor.us shows a similar tutorial for the Address Book.app.
Dropbox has even setup an Automator workflow to help create these types of links (called Symlinks or Symbolic Links). Check out the Dropbox Tutorial (pdf). The Automator Action & Workflow can be downloaded here.
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This Quick Tip helps you find the location of a file that you have open on your screen quickly.
Simply hold down the 
(Apple Key) and click on the file name at the top of the window. A little box will pop up that shows you the path of your file. Now you can click on any of the folders that come up to go to those Finder Locations.
Here is how it will look:
In your iTunes song list you will notice a small arrow on a highlighted song.
If you click it, it will take you to the iTunes Music Store and show you a search for that artist.
Today’s Quick Tip is that if you hold down the option key when you click the artist arrow you will get a search result for that artist in your own music library.
If you like this feature and would rather not hold down the option key you can switch the two in Terminal. So when you click the arrow it will take you to your library and holding the option key will take you to the Music Store.
Here’s how to do it:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
Now your arrows have been changed.
In this Quick Tip we will show you how to share your internet Connection on your mac. If you find yourself in a situation where you have two computers that need to connect to the internet but only one Ethernet cable Macs make it very easy to Share between the two. I have used this in offices and hotel rooms that only have one Ethernet hookup but you have two people that want to get online.
To do this click on the Sharing icon in System Preferences
Then click on Internet Sharing in the list. We will setup the options first so don’t click the check box until we are ready to turn it on. You should see something like this:
We are going to Share your connection from Built-in Ethernet to Computers using Airport. If you click Airport Options you can name the wifi netowrk you are making and set a password. The options page will look like this:
Once all the options are set click the check box to Turn Internet Sharing On. The Airport icon in your menu bar will change to show that you are sharing your internet connection via Airport/WiFi.
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I find myself using 1 or 2 Email folders 90% of the time. And with the amount of email I get I need a fast way of moving read emails into folders for saving. Here is an applescript action to move the selected messages from your inbox to 1 or 2 folders that you setup.
To use this script I use the program Quicksilver. If you don’t have Quicksilver installed I highly recommend using it. You can read why I think Every Mac user should install Quicksilver for more info.
