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.
Private Browsing still leaves tracks, we will show you how to easily switch in and out of Private Browsing, and go over a few additional steps for the paranoid people who want to cover their tracks in Safari via Private Browsing shortcuts, confirmation removal, clearing cached data, and excluding cached data in Spotlight searches.
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.
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.
Would you like the ability to rate songs and videos in your iTunes library using half-stars?
Are you tired of bouncing dock icons when you launch a new application? There’s a simple way to get rid of this feature if you find it annoying.
Tips & Tricks: Make a Widget From a Web Page
Is there information on a particular website that you’d like at your fingertips, but don’t want to have to open Safari everytime? You can create a Dashboard Widget that provides you with that information.
Dashboard.app in OS X is a memory and CPU hog, even in the latest Snow Leopard. Although improved on with the use of grand central dispatch. If you dont use your Dashboard, you might find this command useful to save some CPU utilization, memory, and battery life on your Mac.
Does your iTunes Library list songs that iTunes says it can’t find? Here’s a simple way, using an available script to solve the problem.
Forget Google Image to find App Icons, OS X Leopard has a handy feature which lets you copy full quality app icons using Preview.app.