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• UltraNewb: Share your Mac's internet connection wirelessly

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Ultranewb, Wifi, Wireless

  in a hotel room with your Mac laptop and your roommate's got a PC and there's one Ethernet jack. What do you do? You plug in your Mac and get to sharing the internet love, that's what you do! In System Preferences, go to Sharing and on the Internet tab, click the source (Ethernet) and the way the other computer will connect (for wifi,

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• Time Tracker: Turn the terminal into a stopwatch with time cat

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Command Line, Linux, Linux Tip, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Terminal, Time Tracker

  Mac and Linux: As part of their 150 quick Linux command tips, A Linux Sysad Blog demonstrates how you can use your terminal as a stopwatch by entering the command time cat. In order to stop the terminal stopwatch, hit Control + C; the terminal will then display the amount of time that passed next to "real". Time cat works equally well in Linux

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• Mac Tip: Permanently disable Spotlight

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Desktop Search, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Optimization, Spotlight

  Mac users: If Spotlight gets in your way, you can disable it permanently. Tech blog N.E.R.D. details how you can shutdown Spotlight for good -- and turn it back on again if you change your mind. To do it, you just need to edit a portion of the /etc/hostconfig file. Change where it says SPOTLIGHT=-YES- to SPOTLIGHT=-NO-. After a reboot,

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• Mac Tip: Rotate single PDF pages in Preview

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Mac Tip, Pdf, Preview

  Mac only: Got a PDF with some portrait pages and some landscape? With Mac OS X's built-in Preview app, you can rotate a single page within a multi-page document. Hold down the Option key before selecting Rotate Left or Rotate Right (either the toolbar buttons or the menu commands). With the Option key held down, only the current page will

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• Mac Tip: Add a folder to the sidebar with Cmd-T

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Finder, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Top

  All-things-Apple weblog TUAW highlights a simple keyboard shortcut for adding any file or folder to your Finder sidebar: Got a file you need to remember later today? Cmd-T. A pictures folder you use for blogging that's buried deep in your Home folder? Cmd-T. A bunch of applications you're testing out for business or pleasure? Boom—that

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• Speech Recognition: Create speakable Safari bookmarks

  Published: August 16, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Bookmarks, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Safari, Speech Recognition

  Looking to turn your Mac into a creepy machine friend that you talk at in an empty room? Macworld explains how you can use speech recognition to launch bookmarks in Safari. I've never been one to talk at my computer, but I think speech recognition definitely has its uses. The guide over at Macworld is basically a stripped down version of Adam's

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• Mac Tip: See Paths To Login Items

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:13 am

  Tags: Mac Os X, Mac Tip

  up automatically with your Mac? You can see a list of Login Items in the Accounts area of System Preferences, but some may have opaque names like LCCDaemon or SEC Helper. Macworld offers a few ways to see the full path to those auto-starting programs, either using Terminal-fu or simply hovering the mouse over an entry to get a full path

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• Mac Tip: Batch Resize Images Without Extra Software

  Published: August 24, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Images, Image Editing, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip

  can batch resize images in Mac OS X without installing third party software. The Mac OS X Tips weblog shows how you can use Automator and Preview to batch resize any group of images. After you've created the Automator script, all you need to do is drag and drop the images onto the icon and they will be instantly resized. The article even

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• Mac Tip: Embed Google Calendar Agenda into the Desktop

  Published: August 31, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Calendar, Desktop, Geektool, Google, Google Calendar, Gui, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Scripts

  Mac users: Know exactly what you've got going on throughout the day without checking Google Calendar. Tech blogger Devan demonstrates how you can embed your daily agenda directly into the desktop, using GeekTool. The process requires some pretty decent scripting skills, but the end result is very convenient. You'll need to install perl, curl,

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• Command Line: Determine File Types from the Terminal

  Published: September 5, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Command Line, Linux, Linux Tip, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Terminal

  Mac/Linux users: You can use the file filename terminal command to quickly identify file information. Occasionally you will come across files that have an incorrect or missing file extension. As shown above, the file command analyzes the file given as an argument and displays details about the file. This command is especially useful when it

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• Mac Tip: Access Your Mac's Hidden Lowest Volume Setting

  Published: September 12, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Digital Audio, Digital Music, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Sound, Volume

  Mac users: Just one bar isn't the lowest you can go when it comes to volume. A hidden "super-quiet" level offers just a whisper when you want the quietest possible sound. Macworld explains how to get there:Use the volume keys on your keyboard to manually set the volume to zero—this trick won't work if you use the slider in the menu bar's

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• Television: Now that fall premieres are underway, there's ...

  Published: September 25, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Digital, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Streaming Video, Television, Video

  Now that fall premieres are underway, there's more options than ever for streaming programs to your Mac.

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• Mac Tip: Turn Your Mac into a DVR

  Published: September 26, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Dvr, Gadgets, Gizmodo, Mac Tip, Media Center, Top

  Mac only: Start watching, recording and burning live television to disc on your Mac with the right hardware and software. A USB TV tuner (like the $150 EyeTV tuner), Roxio's Toast Titanium ($100) and a big hard drive will get you started. Record shows with the EyeTV software which will transfer them to your iPod automatically and export to

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• Mac Tip: Route All Your Internet Traffic Through a Proxy

  Published: October 1, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Encryption, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Networking, Privacy, Proxy, Security, Ssh

  how to route ALL your Mac's 'net connections through a proxy, including IM, email and web using any browser (like Safari or Camino.) In short you create a new network location called "Untrusted" in System Preferences, and set it to use the proxy. When you're at the cafe or behind a restrictive firewall, just switch to the new location.

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• Mac Tip: Back Up a Folder with Automator

  Published: October 1, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Automation, Automator, Backup, Backup Utilities, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Top

  Mac only: Add a "Back up this folder" item to Finder's context menu with a simple Automator workflow suggested by Mac OS X Hints. The workflow archives a selected folder's contents, renames the zip file with the date and time, and moves the archive to an external drive. While this method has some drawbacks for the power backer-upper, it's a

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