This section dedicated to All the Apple, Mac, iPhone, iTunes, and other application/hardware tricks I’ve learned.
Every time there’s an Apple earnings call, I’m always amazed to hear Tim Cook or Peter Oppenheimer spout figures on just how many Mac buyers are new to the platform. Whether those new Mac owners are moving over from Windows or are buying a computer for the first time, they may need a helping hand(…)
Much rejoicing accompanied the news that Mountain Lion brought back the “Save As…” option (which had been taken away in Lion and replaced with the not-nearly-the-same-thing “Duplicate” command). Unfortunately, Save As was relegated to a sub-menu which could only be seen if you held down the Option key, or you could use the not-very-convenient keyboard(…)
I noticed that my ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book folder was pretty big; more than 420 MB. On an SSD, a half a gigabyte is a big hit for something that just records contact information. So I looked in that folder, and found some interesting sub-folders. First, at the top level, there was a 69 MB “Images”(…)
In the recent Move messages to a target folder via keyboard shortcut hint, I noticed a user describing a script he’d written to allow him to archive messages from four different Gmail accounts. I replied with this simpler suggestion, and I think perhaps it might merit being considered as a hint in its own right.(…)
Pitting Google search against Siri using a monster 1600-question test shows how useful Siri really is: not at all. Google answered correctly 86 percent of the time. Siri achieved just 68 percent accuracy. At that point, it’s not much better than a crystal ball. We knew that Siri isn’t very good. But this intense test(…)
Facebook to launch “faster” iPhone app in July | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. The Reason Why Facebook’s iPhone App Is So Slow and How It’s Going to Get Blazing Fast Casey Chan Facebook’s iOS app has some nice features but it’s painfully, neck-stiffening slow. It won’t be for long though. The(…)
It’s not too early to start thinking about getting your Mac prepared for Mountain Lion. By the way, I’m going on record as saying that Mountain Lion will be released to the public on July 18, 2012 — if history repeats itself, Apple will hold its third-quarter financial call on July 17th and announce the(…)
The iPhone and iPad Blog by Simon by Sette Capati on 5/31/2012 9:15 AM We have a new jailbreak tweak for you! If you’re more concerned on notifications, this tweak displays a pint-sized banner on your iPhone instead of the stock banner. Well, if you think that the notification’s banner is large, you can try(…)
http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/ Once installed, you can forget about CheatSheet until you have forgotten the keyboard command you want. Then, just hold down the Command key for a couple seconds and a bezel-type overlay will pop up and list all the currently available shortcuts of the frontmost application. That’s it. I’m totally installing this when I(…)
Permanently Unhide Library MacOSXHints.com When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. This hint shows how to make the folder visible and keep it that way forever. As you may know, and as(…)
Use Preview To Take Your Screenshots [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac Command-Shift-3 is so last year. Using Grab to, well, grab shots of your screen is blasé. If you’re really hip, you’ll use today’s tip to get your screenshots and thank us for it in the comments below. First up, launch Preview.(…)
Every day, we find different kinds of tweaks and apps from various categories. Most of the time we get so excited to download every tweak or app that we find interesting. However, we find some of them not functional after all, and they end up with a single tap of delete button. With all(…)
dotfiles/.osx at master · mathiasbynens/dotfiles · GitHub. # Disable menu bar transparency defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleEnableMenuBarTransparency -bool false # Show remaining battery time; hide percentage defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowPercent -string “NO” defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowTime -string “YES” # Always show scrollbars defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string “Always” # Expand save panel by default defaults(…)
How to get AirPlay working when Apple TV is hooked up via Ethernet The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) When I got a new Apple TV, I decided to plug it directly into my Time Capsule via Ethernet to lighten some of the bandwidth load on my home wireless network. My Wi-Fi bandwidth has always been(…)
Disk Label Finder 
HandBrake Batch 
Disk Ejector 
iPhoto: Export ALL Events to Folders 
Find PowerPC Apps (Lion Upgrade) 
Fix Permissions for OS X Files 
Backup / Sync Google Docs to Local Drive 
Quick Backup 
Single Site Checker 
QuickTalker 1.0 – Speech 
