Jun 23
Sarah E-mailed this one in:
To refresh a widget individually, click on the desired widget and hit “apple-R”.
Thanks Sarah…
Jun 10
After the Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote today, Apple previewed OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard.” True to rumors, the release will focus on performance rather than new features.
“We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.”
A new technology called “Grand Central” will make it easy for developers to create programs that take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs. Also introduced is Open Computing Language (OpenCL), which extends the computing power of the GPU to any application written with OpenCL commands. Snow Leopard will also raise the software limit for RAM to 16 TB.
Also introduced is Quicktime X, which “optimizes support for modern audio and video formats resulting in extremely efficient media playback.” Safari will also be receiving an optimized Javascript rendering engine (previously rumored) that will increase performance by 53%.
Beyond speed enhancements, Snow Leopard will also include out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. Apple is aiming for the software to ship in “about a year.”
Other announcements made at WWDC include 3G iPhone, 2.0 Firmware, SDK, Mobile Me.
from macrumors.com
May 29
Just a reminder: Mac OSX 10.5.3 is now available for download via the Apple site, or Software Update.
Apparently, this update primarily addresses issues regarding Airport, Time Machine, Time Capsule, Aperture and Spaces. It also has numerous general fixes throughout.
A full list of this update’s details can be found here:
May 12
I found some hidden screen savers! Well, whilst poking around on my system anyway…
Rather than do the screen shots and write the blurb, I’ll give you a link with an excellent post about these hidden screen savers!
Enjoy!
http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/03/installing-hidden-screen-savers-in.html
Apr 30
Okay so a couple weeks ago, I told you a way to get huge stickies. Okay so you made a sticky… whatever it is. It was really important, like… make sure to make reservations for friday night’s dinner. And then… you never open dashboard. It’s handy, you love it… but you don’t necessarily use dashboard every day. That’s why… there’s the Terminal!
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Apr 27
I accidentally came across this when I meant to hit Shift+F5 for filling in Photoshop. To activate VoiceOver, hit command+F5. You can go into System Preferences, Universal Access, Open VoiceOver Utility to customize.
Apr 18
Like most tricks, I stumbled upon this by accident. If you just want to reply or forward a selected portion of an email in Mail, just drag to highlight the portion of the email and click reply or forward. Comes in handy for those long threads.
Watch the video demo
Apr 17
The columns in the Open & Save dialogues never seem to be the right size, so how do you do something about it?
- Well, if you double click the little symbol with two vertical lines at the bottom of the columns in an Open/Save dialogue box, then it will fit that columns items into the view so you can see file names in their entirety.
- If you hold down the option key when you do that it will do it to every column you see.
- And finally, control-clicking or right-clicking brings up this little choice of things to do to the views:
