In your Apple Mac OS X, how often do you use the Terminal? Here’s something you can do with it: watch Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII characters. Here’s how to do it: Open the Terminal (Command+Space Bar and type Terminal) Copy and paste the next string into the Terminal and press Return Sit back [...]
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Safari tip to search Google in a new tab
July 1, 2011
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Here’s a trick that can come handy when you are reading anything in your browser and you want to search a word or a portion of the text. In Safari, if you highlight some text and then Control+click (or right mouse click) you get a pop up contextual menu. In this example i’ve highlighted Olympic [...]
Unfreeze your Mac when moving between Spaces
June 18, 2011
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On my Mac I use Spaces a lot: i always have 6 desktops with 3 different browsers open on different screens, a social feed reader on another, notepad, applications, screenshots etc and i’m always moving between desktops. It does happen from time to time that while moving from one desktop to another, the animation freezes [...]
Apple OS X Mail: how to get your Account Info
June 10, 2011
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Here’s a good trick for your native Apple OS X Mail application: Select on the left side the Inbox icon and press Command + I (or right-click and choose Get Account Info). A new window will pop up that you might have never seen before: in here you can check how much space each folder [...]
How to speed up your slow browser
June 2, 2011
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Is your browser slow to load webpages despite the fast internet connection you have? Here a few things you can try to speed things up: Change the browser’s homepage with a different website or a blank home page. Update and run your anti-virus and malware scanner tools. Most browsers load extensions of add-ons during start [...]
How to customize week view in iCal
June 1, 2011
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The default views in iCal appear to be pretty basic – day view, week view and month view. But did you know you can customize the display to show you from two to six days simply by typing some keyboard short cuts? To change your view to show the desired number of days, simply hold [...]
Unleash over 900 ringtones hidden in your Mac
May 24, 2011
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There are over 900 potential ringtones hid away in your Mac and i guess not many of you know about it. These audio files are actually sound effects for Mac applications (iLife and Garageband) and all are very good quality sounds, ideal to become an exclusive ringtone. Navigate to You’ll find two folders: iLife Sound Effects [...]
July 16, 2011
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