Do you know you that hidden beneath your Macs hood you’ve Apple’s Speech Recognition software? A little known feature of OS X that enables you to control your computer virtually hands-free by simply talking to it. We’ll show you how to control Safari using spoken commands. Once you’ve learnt the basics, you can apply these same methods to control any [...]
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How to move your iTunes library into an external hard drive
April 16, 2011
There are several reasons why you would want your media files on an external hard drive….to mention a few you have an SSD (or MacBook Air) with limited storage capacities, you have few hard drives installed and you want to have all the media in one alone or simply you want to have a back [...]
How to download YouTube songs for free
April 15, 2011
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If you ever wanted to get your favorite music off YouTube, all you need is to follow this easy tutorial… Go to the YouTube video that has the song you want to download. Highlight and copy the web address of the video, which can be accomplished either by copying what is listed in the “URL” box [...]
How to customize your Mac’s Finder sidebar. Tutorial.
April 15, 2011
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I’ve already given you some ways to customize your Finder background in this tutorial HERE . Now we look at the Finder sidebar. The one to the left. Here is where the shortcuts to different locations and folders are. Beside folders you can put drives or volumes that you want swift access to from everywhere. And [...]
How to customize Mac Finder background with an image
April 15, 2011
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We’ve already explained HERE how to customize you Finder background with a color different then white. Now we’ll show you how to customize it with an image. There are tons of free beautiful images available to download on the internet or if you like you can put a picture from your library…anything you like really…the [...]
Quick image resizing using Mac OS X Preview
April 15, 2011
If you need to quickly resize an image, not by just scaling down, but you want a certain piece of the image. You, could always take another screen-shot of the image or you can use preview to create the new image in a matter of seconds and also get the option to save it in [...]
Thesis tutorial part 7: add ShareThis button to the post
April 14, 2011
This is tutorial 7 in the Thesis tutorials in the blog. We looked at adding the Facebook “Like Button” in the previous tutorial, and in this tutorial we look at adding the “sharethis” button in the posts. Since we are following the previous styling, it will be useful if you look through the previous tutorial [...]
April 17, 2011
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