Thursday, March 27, 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

How to Access a Gmail Account in Mac OS X Mail

About.com: Email
If you use Gmail, you know how elegant it is — almost as elegant as Mac OS X Mail. How about combining the two?

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Installing Hidden Screen Savers In Leopard

Mac Tricks And Tips
If you point your Finder window to System/Library/Compositions you will find a folder full of files.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Safari 3.1 issues

Apple - Support - Discussions
Rather than use Software Updater, download and install from:
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
Make sure you download the correct version. There is one for Leopard and one for Tiger 10.4.11. You cannot use it for a version prior to 10.4.11.
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Important: utilities> disk utility> repair permissions> restart
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Apple - Support - Discussions - How Does One Uninstall 3.1? ...
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Apple - Support - Downloads - Safari Update 1.3.2 - for Mac OS X Panther 10.3.9

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Mac Treat #35: Beyond Dragging and Dropping

Barkings! | The Small Dog Apple Blog
We all know that you can select text, and use the mouse to drag the selected text to the desktop (to make a clipping), from one document to another, or within a document. There is more to dragging and dropping:

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Adding a printer to your printer list in Mac OS X

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106707
Tip: You can also open the Printer List window from Printer Center (Mac OS X 10.2.8 or earlier) or the Printer Setup Utility (Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, or later).

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Macintosh Email Applications - Eudora

The Mac Orchard
In order for Macintosh Eudora to work well under OS X 10.5.x 'Leopard', you need to turn off the use of specific sounds in Eudora.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Power On Self-Test Beep Definition - Part 2

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58442
Products introduced after October, 1999 use a revised set of power on self-test beeps during startup. This article describes each one.

Friday, March 07, 2008

Quickly Close Widgets

Mac Tricks And Tips
By pressing the option key and having your mouse over any widget, the close button will automatically appear.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Mac Treat #32: Delete Like a Pro

Barkings! | The Small Dog Apple Blog
1. If you hold down the Option-Delete keys at the same time when you’re writing in most OS X-native applications (Text Edit, Safari, Mail), you can delete the entire last word you typed instead of only the last letter you typed.

Short Cut For The Apple Logo

Mac Tricks And Tips Shift Option K 