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The …@hotmail.com.au domain is now available for Australians to use as an email address! However,  there is a little workaround needed to get there, but it works just fine:

• Go to www.hotmail.com
• It will redirect your URL to some ‘login.live’ etc. – note the end of this address is en-us (or en-gb, etc.)
• Change this ending to en-au.
• Let the page reload, and then ‘Sign Up’
• Now in the drop down box ‘@hotmail.com.au’ is available to choose!

For our friends and neighbours from New Zealand, just use en-nz to access hotmail.co.nz addrerss registrations.

Better get in quick, because names are going fast.

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).

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.

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.

Dock Spaces is an application that allows you to have up to 10 different docks and swap anytime you want from the menu bar. It will radically improve your productivity, and completely reinvent your user interface experience.

Spaces integration will offer you a different Dock depending on your Space. A native Cocoa application, FREE of charge and Leopard only.

Here is a very handy tip for all of you who like to have a messy and crowded desktop, with hundreds many windows open at the same time.

You are writing an article and referencing at the same time from another source, say the web browser. Now you need to move that browser window in the background, but it really annoys you that every time you do that, you lose the focus of your main window, or even a group of windows. Photoshop, anyone?

Don’t worry, doesn’t need to happen. Simply hold the Command key down, then click on the window in the background and move it.

The window will move in the background, without affecting the harmony of your desktop mess. You can even move it ‘through’ the foreground window, it will just keep going like there’s nothing in its way.