This is a little trick I’m sure many new Mac users are not aware of. When you reply to an email, and you want to quote only part of the received mail, what do you do ?
You hit Reply, then trim the original text to leave only the part you are responding to and then [...]

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A post on Gimp developer mailing forum indicates that Gimp can be run on Mac OS X without need for clunky X11.
Hi everyone, i just thought i would report my sucess of building Gimp on mac OS X with native GTK+ port by Imendio…
There are still some issues that need to be addressed and there [...]

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Omnidrive has released the Mac client, providing remote storage right from the OS X Finder.

Omnidive also provides 1GB of free storage, all you need to do is to register here. You can increase the storage at the price; 10GB for $40, 25GB for $99 and 50GB for $199 per year (all in USD).
The [...]

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With all the disaster surrounding RegisterFly these days, and my two domains possibly going to be lost (no, not silvermac.com), I have just noticed something rather funny.
I logged into my account today to check if my domain name was renewed (I know, I know I’m dreaming) just to see the latest offer:

I guess someone just [...]

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With the recent upgrade to OS 10.4.9 number of Mac users complained that the Eject key on their keyboard no longer works.

The problem is - that there is no problem at all. If you hold down the Eject key for about 1.5 seconds, the key will function properly. I tested this myself, while on 10.4.8 [...]

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In this article, written in October 2006, I complained about Apple removing the equilizer button from iTunes. Not only they removed the button, but they also didn’t think of adding a keyboard shortcut to activate it.
OK, there is a workaround to add a shortcut yourself, but one would think that Apple wouldn’t miss this.

With the [...]

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