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Help 1Restore Safari 5.0.3′s tab opening behaviour
Every time Apple updates Safari, it seems like there’s a war between the sighs of relief—”They finally changed that feature!”—and the cries...
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HelpUse LinkedIn’s new job application feature
If you have empty fields in your LinkedIn profile, you might want to take some time to complete them. Professional networking site LinkedIn is rolling...
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HelpQuit apps without Lion remembering their open windows
One of Lion’s new features is Resume, which automatically reopens every window you last had open in a given application when you relaunch it. That’s...
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Help 2Four Lion Terminal hacks
Lion’s great, but some of us prefer mucking with the behind-the-scenes stuff with our operating systems. We’ve found a variety of Terminal...
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HelpView the entire conversation in Lion Mail
One of the many changes in Lion’s edition of Mail is the Gmail-inspired Conversations view. Conversations combines messages from a thread into...
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Help 1Adjust the size of Mail sidebar icons
Mail looks pretty different in Lion: it’s got a new layout, a variety of new interface elements and a revamped sidebar, too. Hints reader michaelj...
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HelpPrinting labels in Bento 4
With the release of Bento 4, Filemaker’s consumer-oriented database application offers vastly improved printing features, making it possible...
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Help 1Install QuickTime 7 Pro with Lion
Reader Randy Immel wants the best of both worlds on his Mac. He writes: When I installed Lion on my iMac I wiped its hard drive and then installed...
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HelpHow to tag and restrict movies
Reader Art Miller is a parent with concerns about the contents of his iTunes movie library. He writes: I’ve ripped some of my DVDs so that I can...
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Help 1Solving the ‘mute iPad’ mystery
Recently, my iPad began exhibiting a weird audio quirk. For the most part, the iPad’s sound was gone. In a few apps, I could hear the audio. For...
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Help 410 must have Safari shortcuts
I’m a keyboard guy. While I like my Magic Trackpad, and the trackpad on my MacBook Air, I do as much as I can from the keyboard. As such, I use...
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HelpGetting to grips with Lion Recovery
One of the most significant new features of Lion is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called ‘Lion Recovery.’...
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Help 1Configure Lion in five minutes
Reader David Mitchell delves into the personal with this question about Lion. He writes: I’m planning to buy Lion and was curious about what pros...
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HelpShould you do a ‘clean install’ of Lion?
With some previous major releases of Mac OS X, upgrading over an existing OS X installation—for example, installing 10.3 over 10.2—entailed some...
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Help 2How to install Lion over Leopard
As I explained in Installing Lion: What you need to know, one of the requirements for installing Lion is that you already have Snow Leopard (Mac OS...
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Help 1Archive your tweets
Twitter may be a great way to keep up with what’s happening, but it’s not so good at keeping track of what’s happened. That’s because...
