An often forgotten feature and underused feature of OS X is the Services menu, found in the Application menu of most applications; it has powerful automation functionality that will make you life easier. Snow Leopard brings lots of improvements to the Services menu that can streamline many of your computing tasks.
Do you use Time Machine and want a quick status of activity or your last backup? Well using a simple command to check the Time Machine log file and GeekTool, you can get that information right on your desktop.
Do you travel between time zones on a regular basis? Have you ever changed your computer’s time zone to reflect your present time zone and all event time stamps get changed causing scheduling confusion? iCal has the ability to let you easily specify time zones and not affect the times of past events.
Do you want to customize the look and feel of your Finder windows? Text labels too small? Icons too big? It’s easy to make it look exactly as you want.
In this series we go over how to create DMG disk image artwork for use with your apps or applications. Having a professional looking installation folder is critical to your apps image, and rather simple to achieve good results.
Do you use Firefox as your primary desktop browser and need a simple way to sync those bookmarks to your iPhone or iPod Touch? Since Safari is the only browser available on the iPhone or iPod Touch you either need to manually create the bookmarks manually or do without, but there is an easier way.
In previous posts we described how to put the current date and time on your desktop, along with the ability to display images, in our example we used a doppler radar image, but what if you want actual weather conditions? Using GeekTool and a Perl script, called yweather, developed by a Google Code user named loudambiance, you can pull weather data from the Yahoo feed and display on your desktop.
File security and privacy is important for your sensitive data. The DMG disk image is a versatile tool that allows you to encrypt your data and enable password protection on a virtual disk image. This method allows for more versatility and portability than FileVaults methods of securing entire sections of your hard disk.
Do you have a large iTunes music library? Does some of your older music seem to “disappear” from your listening rotation? Well, using Smart Playlists you can organize your music library to keep your listening fresh.
This is a general tutorial on how to setup your corporate exchange email on the iPhone. The instructions are the same no matter if you have a 1st Gen, 3G or 3GS iPhone. However the Copy Paste signature wont be available unless you have iPhone OS 3.0.