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HelpFive overlooked OS X system tweaks
If you like to find new ways to tweak OS X, you sometimes need to look in unexpected places. For example, the Accessibility pane of System Preferences...
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News 1Apple tweaks Snow Leopard security update
Suffering from bizarre errors related to the latest Snow Leopard security update? Apple’s already on top of things. Last week, the company released...
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Help 1How to access Wikipedia in a blackout
Numerous sites across the internet are going dark in protest of the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation currently before the House of Representatives,...
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BlogsFeatures in Siri we want to see
Upon first blush, Siri, the virtual assistant built into the iPhone 4S, is certainly impressive. You speak naturally, and Siri figures out what you’re...
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Help
Five System Preference tweaks everyone should know
Mac OS X’s System Preferences program is the one-stop shop for customizing many aspects of your operating system. Open System Preferences by choosing...
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Use mouseover highlights in Snow Leopard’s Stacks
One of the more-popular Dock modification hints in OS X 10.5 enabled a Stack target highlight on mouseover. With that hint in place in 10.5, when...
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Reviews
Mac Gems: Safari and iTunes Tweakers
Apple’s latest versions of Safari and iTunes (4 Beta and 8.1, respectively) offer many new features, but some folks are nostalgic for The Way...
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More hidden preferences for Safari 4 Beta
Shortly after the release of the Safari 4 beta, I (and apparently thousands of others across the net) extracted the text strings from the binary,...
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Set some missing iTunes 8 preferences
As noted in my recent iTunes First Look, iTunes 8 contains a number of new features, as well as some interface changes. Each of these preferences...
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Bugs & Fixes: Dealing with CPU overloads, part one
Your hard drive begins to chatter at a level that could compete with roomful of agitated chimpanzees. Technically, it’s called “excessive disk...
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How to find hidden preference settings
While relatively simple, the Terminal commands to control 'hidden' preferences aren’t documented anywhere, so I’m often asked “just how do...
