Tag Archive | "tips and tricks"
Organize your iOS device by putting a “most used apps” folder in the dock
Melissa Holt of MacObserver posts a quick and nifty little trick that should really help you organize your iOS homescreen more effectively. In iOS 4, Apple introduced folders. Users can group similar apps together inside a folder for easy access simply by pressing and holding an app icon – which will cause all icons to […]
Continue reading...How to use the Grep command in Terminal to cheat at Scrabble and Words With Friends
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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Terminal is an Apple utility that gives users control over their Mac via a command line, enabling them to use Unix commands to accomplish all sorts of tasks. For instance, you might be surprised to learn that you can play games like Tetris and Pong from within the terminal app. But today we’re going to […]
Continue reading...Tip: How to turn any selected text into a Stickie note with this keyboard shortcut
Friday, December 31, 2010
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Stickies used to be more a more prominent part of the Mac OS, but over time, they’ve steadily fallen into the background. Indeed, it wouldn’t surprise us if most OS X users weren’t even aware of the existence of stickies. Still, they sometimes have a useful, albeit limited, purpose from time to time. That said, […]
Continue reading...“Gmailto:” Safari extension is a godsend for browser-based Gmail users
Monday, June 14, 2010
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Just two days after Apple released Safari 5, we covered 10 of more intriguing extensions available for Apple’s updated web browser. Since then, developers have been busy putting together even more interesting extensions bound to make the browsing experience that much more pleasurable. One that immediately caught our eye is Gmailto:, an extension, courtesy of […]
Continue reading...Mac Tip of the Day – Use Command to open folder in a new window
Monday, March 22, 2010
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Welcome to our first post in what may or may not be a series of posts detailing small but useful tips to help make your Mac computing experience that much smoother. If you’re browsing through a directory in the Finder and are continuously opening up folders and drilling down further into your folder hierarchy, it’s […]
Continue reading...How to watch any video on your iPod or iPhone in portrait mode
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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If you watch a lot of video on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you might have noticed that some videos work in both portrait and landscape mode while others work only in landscape. If, for some reason, you want to keep your video options as open as possible at all times, there’s a handy workaround […]
Continue reading...How to tabulate a word count in TextEdit
Friday, December 11, 2009
TextEdit is a great text editor that comes standard with OS X. While it obviously doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of, say Microsoft Word, it’s a quick and seamless way to be productive without any of the headaches or complexity that sometimes accompany large word processors. You see, for certain tasks, sometimes less […]
Continue reading...Activating single application mode in Snow Leopard without using Terminal
Thursday, October 8, 2009
When Steve Jobs first unveiled OS X 10 years ago, the Finder operated in single application mode, a funky setup whereby switching into a program would minimize all other running applications. In that respect, the first betas of OS X bore a striking resemblance to the iPhone OS of today. Apple soon did away with […]
Continue reading...How to activate Expose from within the Application Switcher in Snow Leopard
Friday, October 2, 2009
Expose was completely revamped in Snow Leopard, and one of its more nifty features is that you can now activate Expose from within the Application Switcher. Here’s how.
Continue reading...Where did the miniplayer in iTunes 9 go?
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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If any of you guys have already downloaded iTunes 9, you might have noticed that clicking on the green resize button no longer brings up the simplified iTunes miniplayer pictured above. Instead, it actually enlarges the active iTunes window. But don’t fret, faithful readers, the miniplayer is still alive and well. If you’re not content […]
Continue reading...iPhone OS 3.1 update adds “copy and paste” to the phone app
Thursday, September 10, 2009
There aren’t a whole lot of new features in the new iPhone OS 3.1 update, but one of the niftier tweaks we’ve come across is the addition of “Copy and Paste” to the iPhone dialer. This is how it works – Once you’ve copied a phone number, from an email let’s say, all you have […]
Continue reading...A little bit of NeXt history fused into OS X
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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Check out this little bit of NeXt history fused into OS X. To take a snapshot of your entire computer screen, Mac users can press command-shift-3. And if users want to select a specific part of the screen to take a picture of, they can press command-shift-4. But, if you happen to be a fan […]
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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