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Yesterday, while reading through messages on some Mac forums, I noticed once again that the question of how to partition a drive for use as a bootable Mac drive appeared several times on different forums...
I'm a highly organized person and I'm constantly making lists of things I need to do. Although I like to have my To Do lists in iCal, I find that adding them directly to iCal is too time consuming. Also, I prefer to not open iCal every time I want to add a new item to my list...
I love Apple's Safari browser but sometimes it slows to a crawl and becomes difficult to use. When this happens, there are a few things that can be done to improve Safari's speed and in this tip I briefly describe those solutions.
One of the great features of Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard is Quick Look. With Quick Look, you can view images, documents and media files just by pressing the spacebar...
After updating to Mac OS X 10.5.8, I noticed a significant slowdown with my old PPC Mac Mini. I'm not sure if the update was to blame, but I did several maintenance tasks and a reinstall and that improved the situation...
Whenever Apple releases new system software updates, there are inevitably users who have problems with the latest version of Mac OS X. I, too, have experienced issues with new updates, but I always make certain to clone my drive before updating in case I need to revert back to the earlier system...
Usually people only use screen savers when a computer is idle, but some screen savers are so enjoyable that they can provide visual relief from work sessions. In this list, I briefly describe some ways to enjoy screen savers.
If you work for long hours on a computer, you might be concerned about wrist injuries that can occur as a result of continually using a mouse. There are some alternatives available that can give your wrist a rest while still letting you use your Mac computer efficiently.
If you use Mac OS X, you probably use either Safari or Firefox as your web browser. Both of these browsers are popular and serve the needs of most users, but there are other browsers for Mac OS X that are also good and have some extra features that are missing in Safari or Firefox...
The Mac OS X clipboard limits you to storing only one item at a time, but there probably are instances when you would like to keep more than one snippet for later use. Fortunately, there are other alternatives available for storing text and image snippets in Mac OS X.
If you have never used a graphics tablet with Mac OS X, you have missed out on some enjoyable ways to work with Mac OS X. A graphics tablet and Mac OS X can let you write on your screen just as you might on paper, control and access menu items, draw with better precision, and replace your mouse.
I've been developing websites on my Mac for over eight years and I've tried many of the applications available for creating different types of websites, including photo albums, blogs and HTML sites...
This Automator application will extract links on a Safari web page and create a list of the links in a TextEdit document. Note that if you have a document already open in TextEdit, the application will append the links to the open document rather than creating a new document with the links.
This Automator application will take any images you select and create and save a PDF contact sheet of all the images. You can then view the contact sheet in Preview or Adobe Reader. This is an easy and quick way to view several images at one time.
Create an email message in TextEdit and launch this Automator application. Your message will be converted to an audio file and attached to an email message that you can send to a friend. The audio file is saved in .aiff format so it will be a large file if your message is long...
