Change your Character Mac Tip #365, 19 November 2008 Do you know where the Character Palette is? Or what it does? It’s a mysterious window full of treasures. Back in Font Tips, Mac Tip #309/03-Oct-2007 and Font Window Gear Icon, Mac Tip #310/10-Oct-2007 I mentioned the Character Palette in passing. …
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Sweep your Mac clean
http://mactips.info/2008/11/sweep-your-mac-cleanSweep your Mac clean Mac Tip #364, 12 November 2008 When I did a sweep of my MacBook Pro recently I recovered 10 gigabytes of space lost to some unexpected hidden files. Because the files were hidden — their names began with a dot — of course I had no idea they were there. …
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Invisible Dot Files Revealed!
http://mactips.info/2008/11/invisible-dot-files-revealedInvisible Dot Files Revealed! Mac Tip #363, 05 November 2008 In the last Tip you created a file named .atest.txt and saved it on the Desktop. You won’t find it though: because the filename begins with a dot the system hides it from you. So, how can we see these invisible files? Use the Terminal to list Files One way is to use the Terminal. …
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Transmission may be restored soon
http://webguide.net.nz/2008/transmission-may-be-restored-soo...directly if you have something to offer. The wording on your website has a huge impact on your visitors — I can probably help make it more powerful and more successful. If you’re a Mac user do visit my MacTips archive, where I add a new Tip for Mac users each week. Cheerio, Miraz
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Sweep your Mac clean
http://mactips.info/2008/11/sweep-your-mac-cleanof all files and folders on my Mac, with sizes beside each. I quickly saw that Users > Miraz claimed around 60 Gb of space. Then I clicked on Music > iTunes > Podcasts. · · I saw that the Rocketboom podcast was using around 840Mb of space — odd since I’d deleted all the episodes I’d watched and there were none waiting for me. Then I spotted it: the .indelible-info
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Invisible Dot Files Revealed!
http://mactips.info/2008/11/invisible-dot-files-revealedI do most of my writing work with software called BBEdit. It has a menu option to ‘Open Hidden…’ because web designers often need to work with a hidden file called .htaccess. · I also use software called Pathfinder that replaces the built-in Finder. It offers many advantages, including a menu item to show and hide invisible files.
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Tips well-pitched for users — Mac Tips
http://mactips.info/tipsTags Apple menu brightness copy cursor Delicious Digg Expose Facebook feeds Finder font forms gear menu iPhone iPod isight iTunes keyboard layout Learning Centre Leopard login Mac Tips Mail NetNewsWire NewsGator password paste photo photo browser
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Stop Cursing an Invisible Cursor
http://mactips.info/2008/10/stop-cursing-an-invisible-cursorTrackpad pane. At the bottom of that pane is a slider for the Cursor Size. My screenshot shows I’ve slid the marker all the way to the right — the ‘Large’ end of the slider. As you can see, the cursor arrow is now enormous, and unmissable. The third screenshot shows my MacTips archive web page again, this time with that giant cursor. If you go to edit a text document, the ‘I-beam’ cursor is also displayed larger, but unfortunately I can
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The Secret Smarts of Apple Mail
http://mactips.info/2008/10/the-secret-smarts-of-apple-maildate, with a small grey rectangle at the right-hand end, with a white triangle inside it. Click the triangle to see a couple of options: Create New iCal Event… and Show This Date in iCal. · Have you received an email with an address in it? Hover and click to see options about adding or editing Contacts, showing a map or displaying the information in large type. I had varying results with the map
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Bridging the Knowledge Worker Divide
http://phantomcto.com/blog/business-tech/bridging-the-knowle...Do you have an RSS reader? Watch an intro to Google Reader to see how it works. Can you generate a PDF document from a Word file you’re working on? Install a free pdf writer for windows and Mac has a built in print to PDF feature Do you know how to build and share a simple spreadsheet using Google Docs? Watch this how to video that explains building and sharing in Google Docs Do have a shortcut for sending mail to the six co-workers you usually write to?
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