As enjoyable as Apple’s software is to use, they like to make us work. Hidden below the surface of most Apple software are hundreds of undocumented little “switches” which can be turned on to enable new sooper-seekrit features. By the same token, these switches can be disabled to [...]
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It’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from June 8th 7:24pm thru June 8th 9:13pm:
spare the: “the utmost man is but the mirror of the LORD” -The visual poetry of Donald Dunbar [ Solution ] Remove Finder [...]
The people behind Gmail are constantly working to add features to their already kick-ass email client web application. Google Labs is sort of like a toy chest for Gmail, containing dozens of major and minor plug ins for the Gmail client. Some [...] Do you deal in sensitive information? Private? Paranoid? Cautious? Then this tip is for you! In this tutorial i will demonstrate a quick and easy way to help protect any sensitive data from prying eyes or passersby.  padlock menubar Allow me to draw your attention to the padlock icon showing in the menubar above. By clicking on this icon i can very quickly send my computer into screen saver mode and, whats more, the user will be required to enter their login password to be able to exit the screen saver. This effectively locks your desktop while keeping you logged in and all of your documents and applications open, untouched, and secure! Here’s how you can get a padlock icon of your very own… Continue reading Added security for your desktop
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Weird that you can’t just have the printer do this by default. But if you’ve ever wondered how to print something out double-sided then wonder no longer. Let me show you the way… First you’ll want to have open a document that you hope to print. A MS Word file, spreadsheet, email, website, anything [...] If you ever find call to change your existing login password—and you might—here’s how you can do it: Go to your System Preferences, either from your dock, or through the Apple menu. Click on Accounts, see?…
In the Accounts preferences you can now change your password. The window looks different [...]
There is a spam filter on the mail server which detects and marks spam by prepending [JUNK MAIL] to the subject on any emails it thinks might be spam. This rule will watch your inbox for anything with [JUNK MAIL] in the subject and mark it as junk, redirect it to junkmail [Email address: junkmail #AT# peoples.coop - replace #AT# with @ ], and remove it from your inbox, all without you having to do anything. Except set up this one rule. Let’s do it!
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QuickLook is a spiffy new feature of OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. In the following screencast i’ll show you how you can use QuickLook to work more quickly and easily on documents and email.
Maybe some day you are working on some documents and you realize that it’d be soooo much easier if you could just combine several of your docs into one nice big doc. Naturally, you are concerned with accessibility so you’ve chosen PDF as your [...]
One added suggestion for improved spam filtering on your inbox. Remember in the previous tutorial where i had you go into your Mail Preferences and edit that junk mail rule? We are going to do something similar to that.