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Mac Keyboard Shortcut For Accessing Help

May 26, 2010

The keyboard shortcut to access the Help menu on the Mac is shift+command+/.

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Mac Keyboard Shortcut For The British Pound Symbol (£)

March 27, 2010

The keyboard shortcut for the British Pound Symbol (£) is Alt+3 (Option+3).

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Good use of the Genius feature in iTunes

February 21, 2010

Just noticed this today while downloading the Free Single Of The Week in iTunes, A Little More Country Than That by Easton Corbin. After initiating the download, a Genius Recommendations bar pops up with a thank you message and a list of related songs for purchase. (click to view a larger version)

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Reset the Dock on your Mac to its default configuration

June 30, 2009

Source: Apple – Support – Discussions – Can’t reset to dock defaults? What worked for me: delete the files com.apple.dock.plist and com.apple.dock.db from homedirectory/Library/Preferences and restart Dock. To restart dock either quit it in the activity monitor or enter the following command in terminal: killall Dock The dock will restart and it will be rebuilt [...]

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Battery Life on the new MacBooks

June 26, 2009

Nice article by Walter S. Mossberg. I also found Uwe Rueckeshaeuser’s comment very interesting: In my own “test” the battery in the new 15″ MacBook Pro lasted 8 hrs and 15 minutes using 50% brightness, WiFi on, Bluetooth off and Energy Saver on. I played music most of the time and used the browser, email, [...]

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A MacBook turns into a spacecraft and flies off

June 26, 2009

How did they do this vid?

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Interesting tidbit about Windows 7 performance

June 25, 2009

Randall C. Kennedy, in Page 3 his article, The generation gap: Windows on multicore, says: But it’s not all bad news with Windows 7. Microsoft’s new OS has a clear multicore scalability advantage over both Windows XP and Windows Vista, especially on less I/O-bound tasks like our multiprocess database workload. (We can thank SQL Server [...]

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Why printed manuals for the iPhone aren’t needed

June 25, 2009

Joshua Ochs, in a comment to the article “iPhone for Newbies: Honey, I shrunk the manual” on TUAW: Do you sit down and read the manual, or refer to it when you need help? If it’s the latter, online resources – whether included help or googling – would serve you far better. And for a [...]

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Firemint Real Racing for iPhone

June 22, 2009

Firemint Real Racing for iPhone review by Chris Holt, Macworld.com – “Though it sounds blasé to say it, the prettiest girl at the ball gets the most dances. Real Racing is real pretty, and man, can she move. Real Racing has some of the most beautiful and cleanest graphics we’ve seen for the iPhone. The [...]

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iPhone 3G S Reviews and References

June 22, 2009

Copy and Paste ★ Copy and Paste – John Gruber, on blogging with the iPhone to his Movable Type-driven website, Daring Fireball: And but then what about creating additional links within the body of the entry? In those cases I was stuck doing it the pain-in-the-ass way. More often than not, I’d just not add [...]

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