Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
If you’re still spooked by the idea of viewing headers along with a preview of a message—even without HTML turned on—you can follow this little tip from Macworld’s Gemmeister, Dan Frakes: Give Limit Point Software’s MailCM a try. This is a contextual menu plugin/pref pane that, among other things, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
An avid reader of TUAW, Chris Thomson, sent us a link to a Flickr picture (being the nosy people we are, we clicked the link). What we found surprised us -- a Twitter Quartz Composer composition was included as a part of the Mac OS ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via Ars Technica.)
Another test build of 10.5.3, 9D27, was released last night to ADC members. This comes just one week after build 9D25, two weeks after build 9D23, and three weeks after build 9D20. The release notes included in the latest build indicate that the 10.5.3 update will include well ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
When Apple introduced System 7—way back in 1991—one of its most-notable features was quick and simple folder sharing with anyone on your network. Just click a folder, enable sharing, define which users would have access to the folder, and you were done. OS X, of course, ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
(Via MacRumors.)
Apple waited a full week before seeding the latest version of Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9d19) to developers on Friday. The latest version of Mac OS X Leopard adds 31 bug fixes to the growing list of issues addressed in the upcoming release. Features that ar...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
(Via Computerworld.)
About five months ago, Macintosh lovers finally got their hands on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard," which boasts more than 300 new features spread across its interface and underpinnings. Some of those features are well-known -- the Dock's "stacks" function, Spaces, Time Machine and Screen Sharing, to name some ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
(Via Max OSX Hints.)
If you have multiple tabs in a Terminal window, then dragging a tab vertically rips it off and displays it in its own window, as described in this hint.During the drag, the window is translucent as it moves around, allowing you to see what is underneath without ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
One of OS X 10.5’s new features is a media browser, making your photos, music, and movies available to most any application that can use them. To see the media browser, just select File -> Open in any media-enabled application (your web browser, TextEdit, Word, etc.). ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
(Via Infinite Loop.)
Apple has had yet another lawsuit filed against it recently, this time alleging that Time Machine infringes on a number of patents owned by a company named Mirror Worlds.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
(Via AppleMatters.)
Apple’s Leopard is several months and a few upgrades old now, but some things still aren’t meeting expectations. Although my experience with it is has been very good (and I know some folks have had serious problems), an accumulation of troubling problems have, well, troubled me.
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