Quick Tips
It is very rare that you’ll find a CD or DVD stuck in your Mac with no apparent way of getting it out, but if that happens, in can be terribly frustrating. There are a few different things you can try to force the disk to eject. 1. Try iTunes – Sometimes the iTunes eject
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Quick Tip: Force Eject a stuck CD or DVD from your Mac
Leopard
Yesterday after reading a few people say that you can’t copy and paste in the Finder, I quickly put together this screencast with Screenflow. Take a look.
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Video Quick Tip: Copy and Paste in Leopard’s Finder
Mac
If you’re like me you get a TON of email, and sometimes the stuff that you haven’t replied to can get missed because it floats down to the bottom of the screen – then off the screen – where I will never scroll down to see just what it is. For some reason I am
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Quick Tip: Apple Mail “Unread” Smart Mailbox
Leopard
When you create a document with iWork ’08 (Numbers, Pages, or Keynote) you can take an extra step to ensure that the document will display with proper formatting in Quick Look by selecting the “Include Preview in Document” check box when you save. Alternatively you can set this feature to be checked by default in
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Leopard Quicktip – Preparing iWork documents for Quick Look
Mac
CreativeTechs has a few really great Mac focused PocketMod booklets. If you’re constantly trying to remember what shortcut is what for OSX, then the Mac OSX shortcuts PocketMod is for you, if you’re looking for a troubleshooting guide you can check out My Mac Won’t Start. Both can be printed, cut, folded, and formed into
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FREE Mac shortcut and Troubleshooting Pocket Guides
Laptops
Boy do I hate the transparent Menu Bar in Leopard. Luckily, I got rid of it, and you can too! All you have to do is click here to download a nice little freeware application that will wipe that transparent bar out of existence and give you the glorious return of the bar in all
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Quick Tip: How to get rid of the Transparent Menu Bar in Leopard
Quick Tips
I was talking to a friend who is still a newbie to the Mac last night, and he was upset that there is no “Print Screen” button on the Mac. So I walked him through how to take a screen shot, and he shot back with “man that’s an ugly shortcut” or something to that
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Quick Tip: Change your Screenshot Shortcuts
iPhone
Here is a tip that was emailed in…I can’t seem to get it to work, but there are several others who seem to have enabled it just fine – so I’m probably just doing something wrong. Either way, I thought you guys would want to know about it. Take a look, and let me know
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Quick Tip: Stream your Movies to your iPhone
iPhone
At first you might think Google Video is impossible to watch on your iPhone, since the iPhone doesn’t support Flash – but, surprisingly, it’s not hard at all. With this simple “trick” (is it even a trick?) you can watch any Google Video you want (that allows downloading) directly on your iPhone. Simply go to
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Quick Tip: Watch Google Video on your iPhone
(dot)Mac
Why pay $99.99 for .Mac when you don’t have to? A reader tipped me off to this a few weeks ago, and I have foolishly forgotten who (sorry about that)…but if you purchase Apple’s .Mac service from Amazon, instead of Apple, you get for the discounted price of $79.99. That’s $20 bucks off! With all
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OS X Quick Tip: Get .Mac for $79.99
