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Boot Camp: Easily restart into Windows without changing your Startup disk No clunky trip to System Preferences, no holding the Option key. A simple...
Restore your last browsing session in Safari It isn't automatic session restore, but Safari can still re-open the tabs you...
Ink warnings can be displayed in the print dialog Many color cartridges have died... to bring you black ink. Hopefully Snow...

Boot Camp: Easily restart into Windows without changing your Startup disk

03. Mar, 2010 2 Comments

No clunky trip to System Preferences, no holding the Option key. A simple utility can let you get in and out of Windows with no fuss.

3rd-Party Apps

Boot Camp, featured

Restore your last browsing session in Safari

01. Mar, 2010 8 Comments

It isn’t automatic session restore, but Safari can still re-open the tabs you had open the last time you quit it.

Safari

featured, Safari

Ink warnings can be displayed in the print dialog

19. Jan, 2010 3 Comments

Many color cartridges have died… to bring you black ink. Hopefully Snow Leopard’s new ink warnings can help avoid that.

Leopard, Snow Leopard

dialogs, featured, ink, printers, UI

Safari Top Sites no longer blindly runs into hotspot pay walls

15. Mar, 2010 3 Comments

In the past, Safari’s Top Sites feature updated its preview icons with any old URL it ran into. Apple finally fixed the problem.

Safari

hotspots, Safari, Top Sites, Wi-Fi

The new Apple Remote and its unibody construction

11. Mar, 2010 1 Comment

Just don’t hold your breath for Jonathan Ive to lovingly speak in front of a white background about what a revolution this will be for the remote industry.

Apple TV, Hardware

Easily figure out which windows are minimized

11. Mar, 2010 0 Comments

A small icon can help you find the right needle in your window haystack.

Snow Leopard, UI

icons, windowing

Dock respects custom icons in folder Stacks

02. Mar, 2010 5 Comments

Your custom icons are represented well in the Documents side of the Dock, and even in Stacks.

Finder, polish

Dock, Stacks

Mail automatically inserts a comma when pasting addresses

01. Mar, 2010 2 Comments

A little bit of smart logic can go a long way towards saving time for anyone drafting messages to multiple recipients.

Mail

Mail, productivity

Billings invoice preview allows multi-touch gestures

23. Feb, 2010 0 Comments

Multi-touch, time tracking, and invoicing. Three great tastes that… go ok together?

3rd-Party Apps

3rd-Party Apps, Billings, gestures, multi-touch

iMovie 09 can use a secondary display

22. Feb, 2010 0 Comments

Hook up a second display and iMovie can move the film viewer panel to it.

iLife

iLife, iMovie, multiple displays

Time Capsule can archive to an external drive

08. Feb, 2010 0 Comments

You can never have too many backups of your backups.

AirPort

backups, networking, Time Capsule, Time Machine

Fraser Speirs is documenting iPad UI details on Flickr

04. Feb, 2010 3 Comments

Apple subtly showed off a number of new interface features and tools in its iPad preview videos. A developer is taking note.

UI, iPad

DVD Player has a hidden scrub bar

02. Feb, 2010 4 Comments

Old media meets new media tools.

Apple apps, UI

DVD Player, UI

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