Posts Tagged “Apple”

Apple has released a beta version of Safari. This new version of Apple’s web browser boasts a few flashy new features: See all your favorite web sites on the screen at once. Browse your history and bookmarks with Cover Flow. Improved tabs and browsing history search. A Windows-esque look and feel for Windows PC users. “Want to enable 1password in [...]

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“Move an iTunes library to just about anywhere” by postrational of Mac OS X Hints is a quick guide to using the Finder to move your entire iTunes library, including songs and meta data, to virtually any location. In order to move your iTunes library to a new location, you must do the following things: Locate your [...]

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I was doing a few few Windows-related tasks on a Mac with Parallels yesterday, and accidentally put things into overtype mode. Computers have two input modes: Insert Mode: When you type, the cursor inserts characters at the current position and shifts over anything that is found after its position. Overtype Mode: The cursor overwrites text that is [...]

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At its final annual Macworld keynote today, Apple announced that all songs in the iTunes store will be DRM-free by the end of March. Up until now much of the iTunes Music Store’s content was crippled with digital rights management technology that prevented users from copying files or playing them on unauthorized playback devices. Customers who [...]

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“Sync multiple iTunes music libraries with one iPhone” by mrmobius of Mac OS X Hints discusses the steps necessary to synchronize songs from multiple iTunes libraries to one iPhone. Tip author mrmobius describes how he puts files from two different libraries on his iPhone. He keeps his MP3 library separate from his collection of high quality [...]

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“What’s the First Thing You Should Do with a New Mac?” by Chris Pirillo reader AYBABTU is a checklist of things to do after unpacking a new Apple computer. Of particular interest to me is point 2: calibrate your Mac’s display to reduce eye strain. According to AYBABTU, calibrating the display on your Mac is very [...]

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In “AT&T: Tethering Coming to the iPhone Soon” Harry McCracken writes that AT&T boss Ralph De La Vega told Mike Arrington of TechCrunch that tethering is indeed on the way for Apple’s mobile gadget. “Tethering” refers to using one’s mobile phone as a modem with which to get a laptop computer online from the road. Most [...]

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If you are not backing up the files on your computer, you are tempting fate. Hard drives fail all the time — do you want to lose all of your documents, pictures, movies, music, and work materials? External hard drives are extremely cheap, and Apple’s Time Machine backup feature requires little more than for you [...]

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