Mac Tips – Trash Troubles Recently I had trouble moving some files to my trash and couldn’t work out what was going on. I did some searching online and came across this article in Apple Support: In Mac OS X, each user account has a separate, invisible Trash folder that is in the home folder.…
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Mac Tips – Showing Hidden Folders Showing the hidden folders on a Windows machine is easy, go into folder options and enable it. On a Mac, you can’t click a magic button and it happens. Here’s how: 1. Open the terminal shell (Utilities > Terminal) 2. Enter the following command at the prompt:defaults write com.apple.Finder…
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Mac Tips – Restoring Minimised Programs on a Mac When using programs on a Mac, pressing the minus (-) sign to minimise the program, minimises it to the tray. Unlike Windows, pressing Alt + Tab on a Mac will cycle through the open programs, but will not restore the window. To work around this, instead…
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Mac Tips – Renaming User Accounts About a year or more a go, I had an issue in my iTunes where all the latest played dates of the songs in my library were all the same. The only way to fix the issue was to shift all my information onto a new user account. However,…
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Mac Tips – Deleting Bookmarks From Firefox One thing I’ve seen many people (including myself) searching for is how to delete a bookmark you have made in Firefox. If you have placed this bookmark within a folder on the bookmark menu, you cannot simply right-click on it and delete it when you want to remove…
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Mac Tips – Best Selling and Free Apps Looking for some new apps for your iPod, iPhone or iPad? Find out what others are downloading on the charts. Check them out here! Come check out the directory for the rest of my Mac tips! Submeg Mac
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Mac Tips – Switching between firefox sessions One of the things that is different between windows and mac is alt + tab. Sure there is Cmd + Tab, but that switches between different programs. What happens when you have two instances of the same program open? Use: Cmd and ~ Problem solved! Come check out…
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Mac Tips – Making your own ringtones for iPhones One of the drawbacks of an iPhone is the inability to select your own tracks as the ringtone, however you can make your own by following these steps: 1. Select the track you wish to use. 2. Select the section of the track you wish to…
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Mac Tips – Take screenshots on a Mac Unlike windows, there is no button for taking screenshots. To perform different screenshot types, see the list below: Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save…
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Mac Tips – Speed up a slow Mac One thing that is always quite easy to diagnose in a Windows based computer is when the system begins to run slow, it’s usually a simple task to determine what has gone wrong. With a Mac, it’s not that simple. With Apple wanting to keep the MacOS…
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