News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Since Apple took away the option in Leopard of specifying which disks to search for individual smart folders, the feature has become almost unusable when large volumes of images are spread across numerous drives. But there is a solution.Since Apple took away the option in Leopard of specifying which disks to search for individual smart folders, the feature has become almost unusable when large volumes of images are spread across numerous drives. But there is a solution. While Spotlight has improved immeasurably since Tiger, it seems like Apple’s Search Team considered the job done once Spo...
Since Apple took away the option in Leopard of specifying which disks to search for individual smart folders, the feature has become almost unusable when large volumes of images are spread across numerous drives. But there is a solution.
Christopher Breen | Nov 20, 2008
In iPhoto ’08’s thumbnail view, there are a couple of undocumented keyboard shortcuts that make working with thumbnails somewhat easier. If you want to resize the thumbnails, for instance, you don’t have to grab the mouse and drag the slider. Instead, you can cycle between various pre-set thumbnail sizes by pressing 0 (tiny), 3 (small), 2 (medium), and 1 (show one image only). (Previous versions of iPhoto support these same keystrokes, though they offered only three sizes—0, 1, and 2.) When you press 1, you’ll see only one thumbnail at a time, and it will expand to fill the entire viewing area in iPhoto.
Rob Griffiths | Nov 19, 2008
If you've noticed a picture of yourself in emails you send and would like to keep things a bit more anonymous, don't worry.
Christopher Breen | Nov 18, 2008
When it comes to monitoring your network, and devices on your network, the 800-pound protocol gorilla is Simple Network Management Protocol, or SNMP. The name is, in my opinion, a passel of lies—the way SNMP works is certainly simple, but setting it up is the exact opposite.
John C. Welch | Nov 18, 2008
When I first gave MobileMe a spin months ago, I synced my Address Book contacts to the cloud. Recently, I wanted to clear those contacts from MobileMe. You might think this would be easy to do. You’d be wrong. After trying several dead-ends, I ultimately tripped over what is almost certainly a bug in Apple’s MobileMe software. I did come up with a work-around for the bug, but it’s a bit ugly.
Ted Landau | Nov 17, 2008
While Stickies has improved over the years, there’s still one fairly major problem with the program: It’s not easy to get your text out of Stickies. There’s a File -> Export Text menu item, but that will only export the text from one Sticky at a time. What if you’ve got 30 or 40 notes, and you’d like to get the text out of all of them?
Rob Griffiths | Nov 17, 2008
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
