Tips & Tricks: Create FREE iPhone Ringtones using iTunes

Tips & Tricks: Create FREE iPhone Ringtones using iTunes

November 12, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Are you tired of spending your hard earned money for ringtones for your iPhone? While there are several different third-party software applications that can help you create them, did you know that you can create them yourself just using your existing iTunes software? And it’s really simple.

Tips & Tricks: Safari - Save Keystrokes When Typing Web Addresses on iPhone

Tips & Tricks: Safari – Save Keystrokes When Typing Web Addresses on iPhone

November 2, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

When using Safari on your iPhone and you type a web address, the keyboard features a .com button so you don’t have to type it out every single time. But what do you do if the domain name doesn’t end in .com?

Well, there’s a trick that will save you those extra keystrokes.

Tips & Tricks: Turn On “New Message” Sound For Every Message in Mail

Tips & Tricks: Turn On “New Message” Sound For Every Message in Mail

October 30, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Have you noticed if you are using IMAP in Apple Mail that you do not get the “new message sound” every time you get a new email? Well, this has been an issue in Mail since the initial release of OS X 10.5, but it has never been addressed by Apple.

If you want an alert there is a easy workaround that will give you that alert whenever a new message arrives.

iPhone Tips & Tricks: Emailing Full Resolution Photos

iPhone Tips & Tricks: Emailing Full Resolution Photos

October 26, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Are you annoyed by the fact that the iPhone resizes and compresses your photos when you email them? Well, if you want to send the photos in full resolution and do not mind the few extra seconds needed to send, there’s a workaround available for that.

Tips & Tricks: Enable Hidden Menu Buttons in Finder

Tips & Tricks: Enable Hidden Menu Buttons in Finder

October 7, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Would you like to be able to easily access functions in Finder and customize the menu bar? Now with a few clicks you can display menu buttons for your favorite and most-used Finder functions and streamline your day-to-day routine activities.

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Tips & Tricks: Change the Default Event Length in iCal

Tips & Tricks: Change the Default Event Length in iCal

September 28, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Do you schedule events and meetings in iCal that are shorter than 1 hour? Are you frustrated that there is no way to change the default duration in iCal? Well, with a simple Terminal command, you can customize and change the default duration to whatever suits your needs best.

iTunes 9: Manage your iPhone/iPod Touch Applications

iTunes 9: Manage your iPhone/iPod Touch Applications

September 11, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

iTunes 9 was released this past Wednesday and it adds many new features, but our favorite addition is the ability to manage your iPhone/iPod Touch applications directly from within iTunes. Many frustrating hours will be saved by no longer having to move apps one-by-one on your device.

Automator: Creating Services in Snow Leopard

Automator: Creating Services in Snow Leopard

September 9, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

One of the most exciting improvements in Snow Leopard is Automator. Automator lets you create services, workflows, applications and folder actions to help automate tasks and activities. Using OS X’s extensive library of built-in actions you can create just about any type of service, workflow or action.

Snow Leopard: Improved Services Menu

Snow Leopard: Improved Services Menu

August 31, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

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.

GeekTool Revisited: Monitor Time Machine Status

GeekTool Revisited: Monitor Time Machine Status

August 25, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

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.

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