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If you would like to add application to the Dock in OS X you can do it in three ways:

• Open Finder and navigate to your Applications folder. Now select the application you wish to add and click and drag the icon to the Dock. You can place it anywhere, the other  icons will nicely move out of the way and make room for the new one.
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• Open Finder and navigate to your Applications folder. Double-click the application you wish to add to the dock. This will open the application and add it to the Dock temporarily, until it’s closed. Select the application icon in the Dock and move it to a different location, anywhere will do. Once you move it the application will stay in the Dock even after you close it.
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• Open Finder and navigate to your Applications folder. Double-click the application you wish to add to the dock. This will open the application and add it to the Dock temporarily, until it’s closed. Right-click on the application icon in the Dock and select Options > Keep in Dock.  If you are not running Lion (10.7) then right-click and select Keep in Dock.
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If you wish to remove the application from the dock simply click and drag its icon off the Dock and it will disappear in a puff of smoke. Note: This will only remove the application from the Dock, it will not remove it from your Applications folder.

It is not very widely known that Finder has its own browsing history, just like Safari does. When you click and hold Next or Previous button in Safari, you get the list of previously accessed websites. It works the same in Finder, showing you the list of previously accessed folders.

This works only in OS X Lion (10.7)

You can get your own personal cloud file sync and online backup for all your devices including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, and more.

SugarSync offers 5 GB of free cloud storage with a a bonus 500 MB if you register via SilverMac, for total of 5.5 GB.

Cloud storage is ideal for backing up your documents, music and photos. You can even share your photos or entire photo galleries with friends and family and access your files from anywhere and anytime.

The free 5.5 GB are more than enough to store 5,000 – 10,000 photos and if you need more you can always upgrade to a 30GB plan that costs only $4.99 per month. In fact if you register via SilverMac, you’ll get a bonus 10GB, for a total of 40GB.

In Leopard and Snow Leopard you can zoom the screen by holding the Control button on your keyboard adn scrolling up on your mouse or trackpad. But this is not the case in Lion. In 10.7 you have a small window that zooms in and out only the selected area of your screen.

Fear not, the function is still there but for some reason Apple decided to switch it off by default.

To enable it, head to System Preferences, click on Universal Access, select Seeing and un-tick the “Zoom in window” option.

The screen zoom is back on again.

The summer is just around the corner and most of you who travel and take many photos will want to upload them online and share with your friends and family.

Having been there myself I had to choose a host that provides me with a great photo hosting/sharing options and amongst many others I have opted for SmugMug.

Have a look for yourself, you will get a 14 days free trial account and don’t forget to use the SmugMug discount coupon X6dRIaxh10P1k - that will save you $5.00 of the regular price for any type of the account.

By the way, my SmugMug gallery is here if you’d like to have a peek and let me know what you think.

With Lion being just announced by Apple as download (only?) purchase, many users will find it very difficult to upgrade their Mac due to their monthly data allowance. The download is about 4GB and if you have multiple Macs to upgrade you will feel particularly hard done.

It is still unclear whether Apple will have a DVD version at same/different price level.

Meanwhile, several blogs have already posted the instructions on how to burn the installation disk once you have downloaded the dreaded 4GB installation file, so here it is:

1. Purchase and download Lion from the App Store
2. Right click on Mac OS X Lion installer and select Show Package Contents.
3. Open SharedSupport folder and  identify the InstallESD.dmg file.
4. Copy InstallESD.dmg file elsewhere on your computer, e.g. on your Desktop.
5. Open the Disk Utility and select the InstallESD.dmg file from your Desktop.
6. Burn the bootable disc and … enjoy.

This disc will allow you to install Lion on any Lion compatible Mac without need to download each time.