Finer Things in Mac | sweating the details

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 7 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

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

Scrolling inside address bar of Safari when clicking the RSS icon

27. Jan, 2010 1 Comment

A simple effect helps to enforce an important transition.

Safari, UI, polish

address bar, polish, rss, Safari

$Spotlight can also find answers to math equations$

Spotlight can also find answers to math equations

26. Jan, 2010 8 Comments

Don’t just search for files and folders—find answers.

Leopard, Snow Leopard

Calculator, math, Spotlight

Play in iTunes DJ continues currently-played track without interruption

25. Jan, 2010 1 Comment

iTunes knows how to not skip a beat.

iTunes

iTunes, iTunes DJ, music

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