March 2010
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How to shuffle TV shows, movies in iTunes
By default, TV show episodes and movies will not shuffle in iTunes. This is most likely a design choice on Apple’s part, intended to prevent users from accidentally wasting a MacBook’s battery power on endless videos. If you want to enable shuffling for videos, select one or more of them, then choose File > Get Info (⌘+I). In the info window for your file(s), go to the Options tab...
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Safari Top Sites no longer blindly runs into...
When opening Safari at a pay wall hotspot (Starbucks, etc.) in the past, Top Sites would blindly attempt to check for updates on all of your sites, only to replace them with icons of the pay wall. Now, after version 4.0.5, it waits until you have a connection out to the ‘net before updating the icons. Presumably, some logic was added to verify that an update is coming from the actual URL...
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Easily figure out which windows are minimized
Application windows that are minimized are indicated in the application’s Window menu with a diamond icon. If you have a lot of documents open in an app (say, while working on a project in an image or text editor), and a decent portion minimized, this small mark can be quite useful for tracking down the one you need.
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Boot Camp: Easily restart into Windows without...
If you run Windows in Boot Camp, you don’t have to change your Startup disk or stick around to hold the Option key every time you restart. A utility called Flipside can perform a one-time restart from Mac OS X into Windows. When you’re finished, simply restart from Windows, and your Mac will boot back into Mac OS X.
Flipside is donationware and should work on any Boot Camp-compatible...
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Mail automatically inserts a comma when pasting...
If you paste addresses into Mail’s To, Cc, or Bcc fields, it will eliminate some tedious formatting duties by automatically inserting a comma and a space between each address. This way you can keep pasting in each individual address one after the other, since Mail is smart enough to separate them properly. Very handy when drafting a message to an email list from addresses that you have to...