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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If you haven’t downloaded and installed DropBox on your Mac yet, you are missing out on one of the most useful “cloud”-based applications around today. DropBox gives you online storage letting you access your files from anywhere using their client or webpage from any computer.
Now DropBox has released their iPhone application that truly makes accessing your files on the go a piece of cake.
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.
If you have an iPhone and frequent Starbucks to get your daily caffeine fix, there’s now an app to make your life easier. Starbucks has released an iPhone app that brings your Starbucks card to your iPhone. Mobile Card app lets you view your card balance, reload the card, view transactions and actually pay for transactions (Currently being tested in the Silicon Valley and Seattle, WA areas).
Evernote has now been around for awhile and the iPhone app is now over a year old and just seems to be getting better with each new release. Evernote for iPhone works seamlessly with the website and the various desktop apps. Using the app, you can capture, collect, store and organize information wherever you are.
How-To: Changing A Username
When users create an account on their Mac, the Home folder is named with the “short” version of the username. Changing it or the login name is not straightforward, but compared to what had to be done prior to Leopard, the procedure is now relatively simple.
You might already be used to the Genius feature in iTunes to help you develop playlists or even find similar music, but now Apple has added Genius feature on the iPhone/iPod Touch to help you sift through the thousands of apps available. Like the Genius feature in iTunes, this will look at the apps installed and make recommendations to what else you might link.
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.
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.
One of the great time savers and productivity apps on the Mac is TextExpander. Using predefined shortcuts and abbreviations, TextExpander expands them into snippets or even full paragraphs. Now Smile On My Mac has brought that same functionality to the iPhone/iPod Touch with their app, called TextExpander Touch.
