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Quick Tip: Tweek iTunes in Terminal

Published by admin in Quick Tip on April 30th, 2009

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

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Quick Tip: Share your Ethernet internet using WiFi

Published by admin in Quick Tip on April 27th, 2009

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

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Applescript: Move Mail.app Messages to Folder

. . 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

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Every Mac User Should Install Quicksilver

Quicksilver is by far my most used application. It is great as an application and document launcher. It’s like spotlight but with a bunch of features. Download it here

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Quick Tip: How to rearrange items in your menubar

Published by admin in Quick Tip on April 26th, 2009

You can rearrange the items in your Mac OSX menubar by holding down the apple key and dragging them around. You can also remove items from your menubar by holding down the apple key and dragging them off the menubar.

How To: Create A Password Protected Folder (Disk Image)

Published by admin in How To's on April 25th, 2009

In this tutorial we will look at how to create a Folder that is password protected. There isn’t a built-in feature for this on Mac OS but there are a couple ways to accomplish this. One there are two 3rd party apps you can get to make folders password protected. Crypt (Link) (Shareware) Secret Folder

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Quick Tip: Ctrl Alt Delete for My Mac

Published by admin in Quick Tip on April 19th, 2009

Nearly every PC user knows when they get in a jam hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete but on a Mac not everyone knows how to “Force Quit” an Application. To Force Quit an application hit Cmd+Opt+Esc This brings up a window where you can select the application that is not responding: Then you will be asked to confirm:

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How To: Access a saved Safari passwords.

If you use Safari’s built-in feature to save your passwords you can easily forget a password for a site you don’t use that often. In this tutorial we will learn how to retrieve a password should you need it for another reason other than using it in Safari. First open the application Keychain Access which

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Load a DVD Movie onto your iPod

Here you will learn how to take one of your DVD’s and load the movie onto your iPod. For this tutorial we will be using Handbrake which is a free download.

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Office Prank: Change the HP Laserjet Default Ready Message in Terminal.

In this tutorial we will be looking at how to change the ready message on an HP Laserjet Printer. Works with HP Laserjet Printers with a LCD Display. This is a fun office prank that doesn’t cause any harm to the printer. It’s easy to do, the hardest part is coming up with a good

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