Sun, 1 March 2009
Google has finally fixed something I was looking for for quite some time, adding multiple attachments in one go. Say you want to email 5 photos to someone, you have to click on “Attach a file” navigate through your file manager to find the file, select it and click OK. And repeat this four more times.
Now when you click on “Attach a file” you can select multiple files and click OK. The next you will see is a list of files being attached and the upload progress bar for each.It works with both Gmail and Google Apps (GAFYD).
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Sun, 1 March 2009
There are two things I didn’t like about Safari 4 beta, the placement of the tabs on the top of the window and the missing progress bar. Fortunately it’s very easy to fix this by using Terminal.
To restore the progress bar and the spinning indicator type the following in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari
DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
all in one line, then press Return. Now type
defaults write com.apple.Safari
DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO
all in one line and press Return. Restart Safari for changes to take effect.
To restore the tabs to the Tab Bar like in Safari 3 type the following in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari
DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO
all in one line and press return. Restart Safari for changes to take effect.
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Sat, 14 February 2009
One of the new functions of iPhoto 09 are Faces. When you select the Faces in the menu bar on the left you will see a cork board with the thumbnails of faces that iPhoto has identified in your library. The default thumbnail photo, or the key photo, is not always the best choice, so you’d like to change it.
There are two ways of doing this. Firstly, you can click on a little “i” icon in the bottom right corner of the photo, then skim through the photos until you find the one you like. Click on it and your new key photo will be set.
The other and easier way of doing this is simply to skim through the images (slide your mouse pointer over the thumbnail) while on the cork board, and once you see the photo you’d like to set as a key, just hit space bar. The new key photo is set. The same applies for the Events view thumbnails.
An extra tip - if you are skimming through the Faces, hold down the Option button, this will show you the entire photo, not only the face.
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Tue, 6 January 2009
What a start of the new year. Long awaited Picasa for Mac is finally out. Beta, of course. The first impression is that it looks and feels same as on Windows, and it runs fast. OK, that is a 5 minute use assessment, but it’s very promising. It works with Mac OS X version 10.4 and higher and only on Intel platform.
So head over to google and download your copy while it’s still hot. Unless Apple comes up with the iPhoto 09 tomorrow morning, Picasa and I will be good friends for a while.
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Fri, 21 November 2008
You can change your display contrast by using a simple keyboard shortcut:
Ctrl + Option + Cmnd + period (or >) to increase the contrast, or
Ctrl + Option + Cmnd + comma (or <) to decrease it.
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Fri, 21 November 2008
Google have released the long awaited Gmail Themes. It hasn’t propagated to all accounts yet, but I was lucky to have it available already since last night.
Unfortunately, it’s not available via GAFYD (Google Applications for your Domain) yet, and it also doesn’t apply to the Calendar.
If you can’t see the “Themes” under Gmail Settings, try chaning your language settings to English US and learn to live with what our American friends have to put up with for all their life - the year with 31 months, and months with only 12 days :-)
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