Entries Categorized as 'Tips'

Airport connection dropping off - how to fix it

Date May 18, 2008

Boy, can it be frustrating when your wireless network starts dropping every few minutes!
First it works fine, then the traffic stops even though the Airport indicator shows the full signal. When I click on it, the status shows as “Airport: Scanning” then after a few seconds it’s “On” and the traffic goes fine. Minute later [...]

Recent items in Leopard Dock

Date May 16, 2008

I just found this nice little feature to show recent items in Dock. The choice is: recent documents, servers, volumes, items and my all favourite - recent applications.

To enable it you will need to use Onyx. What, you don’t have Onyx? Alright, shhhhh… I won’t tell anyone, go quickly to Titanium software website and [...]

Search the web from the Dock

Date May 11, 2008

If you are working on something (outside of your browser) and you need to get more information, the first thing that comes to mind is to search the web. Mac OS X has a very nice feature to search from the Dock, using Safari.
Let’s imagine you are writing a document about Napoleon, and you just [...]

Creating PDF documents on Mac

Date April 12, 2008

Mac OS X has an in-built functionality of saving documents to a PDF file. This comes very handy in many situations and it doesn’t cost you a dime, unlike on some other platforms.
This is how you do it. Say you have a document in Apple Pages, a newsletter you have just created and you’d like [...]

Deleting photos from iPod touch

Date March 30, 2008

How to delete photos from iPod touch? You tried every single menu on your iPod, tried every trick in the book but it just doesn’t work? Yes, it’s easy to delete videos, but for some reason you can’t do anything about photos.
But don’t worry, it’s easy to do. We need to understand how the photos [...]

GAFYD - new style with coloured labels

Date March 10, 2008

If you are using Google Applications For Your Domain (GAFYD) and still have the old Gmail style interface, you may be able to fix the problem via GAFYD Control panel.
This is what you need to do. Log into the Control panel and select Domain settings then click General tab.

Scroll all the way down to [...]