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  • Put Mac to sleep with Drafts on iOS

    23 May 2013, 10:30 am

    Agile Tortoise's Drafts is a nifty tool for writing texts and doing things with them on an iOS device. I use it mostly for the more comfortable writing environment, and send texts as emails or tweets, but there's an entire sub-culture that's been hacking…
  • Use Flickr as a cloud drive

    22 May 2013, 10:30 am

    Flickr has announced that all users will now have 1 TB of storage for free. With that much space, surely it would be interesting to figure out how to use Flickr as a cloud drive.…
  • Quick way to get artwork from currently playing iTunes track

    21 May 2013, 10:30 am

    iTunes makes it easy to retrieve the artwork from the currently playing song. Just drag & drop the artwork displayed in the iTunes LCD (the bar at the top of the iTunes window, showing artwork, progress bar, etc.) or the MiniPlayer to the Finder, or to any…
  • Control iTunes AirPlay streaming with AppleScript

    20 May 2013, 10:30 am

    iTunes 11.0.3 provides AppleScript support for controlling AirPlay devices. Below is a basic script that illustrates how AirPlay devices can be selected and applied using some of the new iTunes AppleScript classes and properties:…
  • Save disk space by deleting copies of Mail attachments

    17 May 2013, 10:30 am

    By default, Mail will keep file attachments that you've opened or viewed in your ~/Library/Mail Downloads folder, until you delete the associated email. You can save disk space by making the following switch:…
  • Fix for missing "Assign to..." Mission Control bug in 10.8.x

    16 May 2013, 10:30 am

    Having originally upgraded to 10.8 from 10.7, all of my applications' desktop assignments in (now) Mission Control were already set. I recently decided to wipe and install a fresh copy of OS X 10.8.3, and discovered that, for many of my apps, the option to…
  • Set up Facebook chat in OS X Messages

    15 May 2013, 9:30 am

    You can set up Facebook chat in Messages. Since Facebook uses Jabber, all you need to know is your user name, and you can create an account.…
  • Disable swipe gesture to go back and forward in Chrome

    14 May 2013, 10:30 am

    A Stack Exchange user asked a question a while back: is it possible to turn off the swipe gesture in Chrome that goes back or forward a page? If you're not familiar with this gesture - which works in most browsers on OS X - you use a two-finger swipe to the…
  • Easy way to open new Finder window in same folder as frontmost window

    13 May 2013, 10:30 am

    You recently published a hint explaining how to open a new Finder window in the same folder as the frontmost window, using an AppleScript. Here is an easy way to do the same thing: no Applescript, no special apps needed.…
  • AppleScript to open new Finder window in same folder as frontmost window

    10 May 2013, 10:30 am

    A user at Stack Exchange asked an interesting question recently : how can you open a new Finder window in the same folder as the frontmost window? When you open a new Finder window (Command-N in the Finder), it opens to the folder you've set in the Finder's…
  • Quickly display SVG files in OS X using Firefox

    9 May 2013, 10:30 am

    Quick Look uses WebKit to render SVG (scalable vector graphics) flies, and Safari has a bug that mis-renders any isolated horizontal or vertical line segment making it useless. Most SVG graphics programs like Inkscape or Illustrator are very slow to launch.…
  • Provide limited, secure, ad hoc access to iOS device

    8 May 2013, 10:30 am

    If you have an iPad or iPhone, and a friend wants to check out a web site, or your child wants to play a game, you may not feel comfortable lending them the device, since they can access your email, bookmarks, contacts and other personal data.…
  • Use the Finder toolbar Back button to jump to previously visited folders

    6 May 2013, 10:30 am

    I can't find a hint for this on the site, and it's probably not new, but I only just stumbled on this. The Finder toolbar, by default, has Previous and Next buttons that let you navigate back and forth in folders. If you click the Previous button, you'll go…
  • Save on mobile bandwidth by disabling remote images in iOS Mail

    3 May 2013, 10:30 am

    I've just moved from a country where I had unlimited (really) data on my iPhone contract to one where data plans are metered and expensive. So this recent article by David Chartier, on the Finer Things in Tech web site, comes at the right time. It points out…
  • Fix PDF display in browser issues

    2 May 2013, 10:30 am

    Some users have issues displaying PDFs in their web browsers. In some cases, when clicking on a link to a PDF, they get a blank black or white page. These issues can be caused by certain PDF browser plug-ins.…
  • Prevent Google Now from depleting iOS batteries

    1 May 2013, 10:30 am

    Google has added Google Now to its Google Search app for iOS. This provides local traffic information, weather data and more. Unfortunately, this also keeps GPS on permanently on an iOS device, depleting its battery.…
  • Sync files across computers with BitTorrent Sync

    30 April 2013, 10:30 am

    BitTorrent Labs has released BitTorrent Sync, a tool for syncing files across computers, using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. This app lets you choose a specific folder (or folders) to sync, and have it automatically synced on one or several computers.…
  • Keep your keyboard's keys from getting worn out

    29 April 2013, 10:30 am

    If you type a lot, you may find that the letters on the keys of your Mac's keyboard will slowly fade away. In my case, not only do they fade away, but one key - the D key, which, since I use a Dvorak layout, is the E key - actually has some of the plastic worn…
  • How to show or hide panels in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI v.11.0.2

    26 April 2013, 10:30 am

    Sometimes clicking the "Show or hide panels" (the top-right icon on right pane for Tools or Comments) in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI v.11.0.2 on OS X 10.8.3 does no work. Clicking it does nothing. Here is the fix:…
  • Use Dropbox and Automator to automatically import photos from Android

    25 April 2013, 10:30 am

    I have an Android phone and wanted to automatically save photos that I take in iPhoto, similar to the Photo Stream feature that iPhones have. Dropbox has a feature that automatically uploads photos that you take into a folder called "Camera Uploads,” which…

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