OS haX: Undocumented, inaccessible, and incredibly useful

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 remove […]

What I’m into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from June 8th 7:24pm thru June 8th 9:13pm:

8thday

spare the: “the utmost man is but the mir­ror of the LORD” –The visual poetry of Don­ald Dun­bar
[ Solu­tion ] Remove Finder from Dock (Safe […]

Gmail Labs: Undo Send! TGFU (thank goodness for undo)

undo send

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 of these […]

Added security for your desktop

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

pad­lock menubar

Allow me to draw your atten­tion to the pad­lock icon […]

Screencast: Learn about QuickLook

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.

Click here to view the screencast.

Merging PDFs using software you already have!

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 file […]

How to print double-sided

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 really.When you are […]

How to change your password

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?…

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In the Accounts pref­er­ences you can now change your pass­word.  The win­dow looks dif­fer­ent depend­ing on which ver­sion of […]

[SPAM] Even MORE junk filtering!

junkmail1One 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.

There is a spam fil­ter on the mail server which […]

PDF: one document format to unite us all

PDF IconWe live in an age of vibrant techno-diversity. We have com­put­ing plat­forms galore from Win­dows and Mac, to the count­less vari­a­tions of Linux. We have MS Office, and OpenOffice.org, and NeoOf­fice, and StarOf­fice, JOf­fice, Simdesk, and way more to choose from for our word pro­cess­ing and spread­sheet­ing needs. […]