How to Create an Apple Airport Wireless Computer to Computer Network | eHow.com
Have you ever wanted to connect two Apple computers together wirelessly in order to exchange files or share a wired internet connection? Did you know that you can easily create an “ad hoc” network using built-in functionality in Apple’s own Airport feature? These simple steps will show you how.
Manage files in OS X your way | Mac OS X | Macworld
by Macworld Staff, Macworld.com
OS X’s basic tools for finding and managing files—the Finder and Spotlight—are fine. But savvy users find ways to make them better. For some, that means making the Finder work better, with smart folders and meticulous filing systems. For others, that means turning to some third-party utilities that let them manage files their way.
Have you ever wondered, why Apple’s TimeMachine takes so long to back up your files? Where all that free space on your backup drive went?BackupLoupe provides a convenient way to browse your backups and identify files/folders whose content changes frequently. Often, those items are temporary files or cache folders which need not be backed up in the first place. You may consider excluding them from TimeMachine backups and save valuable disk space.
The QuickView panel, that you know and love from Leopard’s Finder, helps you separate important stuff from garbage.
GemFest 2009 begins | Software | Mac Gems | Macworld
by Dan Frakes and Roman Loyola, Macworld.comThere’s a lot of great free and low-cost software out there, programs we call Mac Gems. Macworld Senior Editor Dan Frakes covers a couple of these each week on the Mac Gems Weblog, but there aren’t enough weeks in the year for him to cover them all. So each year, we go through our ever-growing list of potential Gems and put together, with the help of other Macworld staff and contributors, a special summer Gems event. (You may remember last year’s “Summer of Mac Gems”?)
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View all Macworld blogsThis year’s event is called GemFest 2009. Starting today and continuing until the end of June, we’ll use the Mac Gems blog to cover a new Gem each day. Some of the programs are simple, some more complex. Some will be niche-y, while others will be programs everyone should use. The one thing they all have in common is that they are all Mac Gems.
Thaweesak Suksuwan » Setting Paste and Match Style as default
One of the most annoying things about Mail.app application in Leopard is its paste with formatting feature.
There’s already a simple fix for this however. You can just press Command + Option + Shift + V. Try that. Seriously. Try and press all that 4 buttons together. I don’t think anyone would want to repeat that command stroke every single time.
In order to set “Paste and Match Sytle” as the default paste command, just complete the following instructions:
There you have it. Perfectly formatted pasted information in your mail (or any other applications that comes with the feature) all the time.
AppleInsider | University of Florida’s PharmD program to require iPod touch
By Katie MarsalThe University of Florida is the second school in as many months to announce that students enrolling in one of its curriculums this fall will be required to own either an iPhone or iPod touch, highlighting an increasing role for Apple’s multi-touch devices in higher education.
“All entering PharmD students must have a iPod touch (or iPhone) and a computer meeting minimum UF and College of Pharmacy (COP) requirements,” the university said on its College of Pharmacy website.
Macintosh users can feel smug about using the best operating system available today. The OS X operating system is easy to use, very reliable, and doesn’t “get in the way” with all sorts of pop-up messages. In short, “it just works.” However, one major disadvantage of the Mac is that it doesn’t have as many genealogy programs to choose from as does the Windows operating system. Or does it?
Read reviews of the programs available for the Mac: Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter: Genealogy Programs for the Macintosh
Link suggested by Kathleen Estes, OMUG Member.
macosxhints.com – 10.5: Crop multiple pages in a PDF file using Preview
Editing PDF (or ps) files is somewhat tricky, but Leopard’s version of Preview is a handy tool. It can not only extract and/or rearrange pages, but also do some more sophisticated operations, like removing unwanted margins.Individual page cropping is very simple — press Command-3 (Tools » Select Tool) to invoke the Select tool, then drag out the area you wish to keep, then press Command-K (Tools » Crop) and you’re done. But what if you want to crop every page in the document in the same manner?
To apply the defined crop to all pages in the document, first set drag out the area you’d like to keep, as above. Then press Command-I (Tools » Inspector) after selecting the area to crop. In the Inspector panel, select the ‘ruler’ tab, then click the Crop All Pages button. Save your document when you’re done.
Remember that it’s very easy to convert any document to A PDF in OS X; just use the Preview button, or the PDF » Save as PDF button.
Download FlexCal » FlexCal 1.13
What is it?FlexCal is a simple way to get your tasks or events into your calendar quickly. Simply hit a hotkey (that you define) and a quick entry window pops up — from within any application. The first window is a task entry window. Hit the hotkey again and an event entry window appears. Type in your task or event, hit return and instantly the item is added to your iCal calendar. It’s that simple.
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