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Tips Report for Year 2008

 

[Oct 06, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iCal: Finding Shared Calendars
[Oct 03, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iCal: Event Alarm Presets
[Oct 01, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Twitter Grader: How Do You Stack Up?
[Sep 26, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Mail's Little Details
[Sep 24, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Web Site Down? No, It's Just You
[Sep 15, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iTunes 8: Counting iPhone Apps
[Sep 12, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iTunes 8: Fine Tune Podcast Settings
[Sep 08, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Preview URLs in Mobile Safari
[Sep 05, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - OpenDNS: Managing Your Internet Access
[Sep 03, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Bandwidth Monitoring Tools
[Aug 29, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iTunes: More Info About What's on Your iPod
[Aug 25, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Finder: Copying File Name Lists
[Aug 22, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Web Surfing in Airplane Mode
[Aug 20, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iTunes: Trimming Tracks
[Aug 15, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Quickly Remove System Preferences
[Aug 13, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iTunes: Resetting iPhone and iPod Warnings
[Aug 11, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - Mobile Safari: Quick Domain Suffixes
[Aug 08, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Better Snap Shot Control
[Aug 06, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - PDF: Selective Copy Text from Columns
[Aug 04, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iCal: Quick Keyboard Shortcuts
[Jul 30, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Twitter: Tracking Twitter Stats
[Jul 28, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Updating App Store Applications
[Jul 25, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Address Book: Selectively Hiding Your vCard Info
[Jul 23, 2008] Dave The Nerd - My Backup Strategy
[Jul 21, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iTunes: Deleting iPhone Apps
[Jul 18, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Build Your Own Twitter Client
[Jul 16, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Typing Special Characters
[Jul 14, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone 2.0: Screenshots
[Jul 11, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iTunes: Accessing the App Store
[Jul 09, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Mail: Organizing Smart Mailboxes
[Jul 07, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Smart Mailboxes: Organize Mail by Date
[Jul 02, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iCal: Better Birthday Syncing
[Jun 30, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - Cutting iPhone Speaker Buzz
[Jun 23, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Address Book: Export to CSV
[Jun 20, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Go, Go Finder Menu
[Jun 18, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Summize: Following Twitter by Topic
[Jun 16, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iCal: Quick-change Calendars
[Jun 13, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Lock Down Your Root User
[Jun 11, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - MobileMe: Transitioning from .Mac
[Jun 09, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Address Book: Easy Relationships
[Jun 06, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard's Built-in Trackpad Tutorials
[Jun 02, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Spaces: Grouping Projects Instead of Applications
[May 30, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iCal: Scroll By Days in Week View
[May 28, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iTunes: Finding Album Art
[May 21, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - One-click File Name Copying
[May 19, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Change Dictionary's Default View to Panel
[May 16, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Quick Look: Web Archives
[May 14, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Backing Up the Important Stuff
[May 12, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Saving SMS Messages to Your Mac
[May 09, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Tracking Application Updates in Dashboard
[May 07, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Quick Look: View Multiple Images
[May 05, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Stickies: New Notes from Selections
[May 02, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Fine Tune Volume Controls
[Apr 30, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Quick Look Package Contents
[Apr 28, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Check Out Fonts with Quick Look
[Apr 25, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Tracking Down Login Items
[Apr 23, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Spruce Up Terminal
[Apr 18, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Scrolling in Background Windows
[Apr 16, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Preview PDFs on the Quick
[Apr 14, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Restoring Windows and Tabs in Safari
[Apr 09, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - iChat: Chatting Outside the Bubbles
[Apr 07, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Safari's Drag-able Tabs
[Apr 04, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Merging PDFs and Images in Leopard's Preview
[Apr 02, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Quick Tabs in Safari 3.1
[Mar 31, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Restoring Advanced Printer Options
[Mar 28, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Screen Sharing Sans iChat
[Mar 26, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Safari 3.1: Network Timeline
[Mar 24, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Safari 3.1: The Magical Develop Menu
[Mar 21, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Instant TinyURLs from TextExpander
[Mar 17, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - One-click Access to Network Diagnostics
[Mar 14, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Changing Icon Sizes in Leopard's Open and Save Dialogs
[Mar 12, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Finder: The Joy of Undo
[Mar 10, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Calculator: More Than Meets the Eye
[Mar 07, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Grabbing Colors with the Colors Pane
[Mar 05, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Pick a Color, Any Color. Then Keep It.
[Feb 29, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Remove Unwanted Menu Bar Icons
[Feb 27, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Changing Dock Stacks to Folders
[Feb 25, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Services: Cleaning Up Ugly Text with WordService
[Feb 22, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Quick-send Text with Mail's Send Selection Service
[Feb 20, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Google Images: When Free Isn't Always Free
[Feb 18, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - iTunes: Automatic Custom iPod Playlists
[Feb 15, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: The Return of the Usable Dock
[Feb 13, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard's Menu Bar: Now in Opaque
[Feb 11, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Twitter 101: Finding Friends with Twitter Blocks
[Feb 06, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Dictionary's Power Reference Tools
[Feb 04, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - Breaking the iPhone Sync Blues
[Feb 01, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Twitter Clients 101
[Jan 30, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Spaces: Screen Jumping
[Jan 28, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Digital Pics: Importing Specific Images
[Jan 11, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - There and Back Again: Surviving Macworld Expo
[Jan 09, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Ready-made Macworld Expo iCal Schedules
[Jan 07, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Options: Selecting Alternate iPhoto and iTunes Libraries
[Jan 04, 2008] TMO Quick Tip - Leopard: Disable File Extension Rename Dialog
[Jan 02, 2008] iPO Quick Tip - Controlling iTunes Visualizer
 
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Monday's Mac Gadget is here to help you with those cool things that we all just have to have on our Macs. Shareware, Freeware, Postcardware, Emailware, and even commercial apps, Monday's Mac Gadget is here to help you find and use the best of these .

Monday's Mac Gadget is published on Mondays.

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Computing With Bifocals is aimed at the generation that remembers what the world was like before there was color, Nancy Carroll covers issues for people who don’t care how their computer works, but rather what their computer and the internet can do for them.

Computing With Bifocals is published on Wednesdays.

She welcomes your comments at nancy@macobserver.com.


Ask Dave is here to answer all the Mac questions you have. Networking, system conflicts, hardware, you ask it, he can answer it. He is the person from whom all Mac knowledge flows....

Ask Dave is published on Fridays.

You can send your comments to askdave@macobserver.com.


iQT offers you how-to's on Working with QuickTime. From making the most of your Web site (for instance, did you know you can do mouse roll-overs with QuickTime?), to making interactive movies, Brad Smith can tell you how to do it.

iQT is published on Thursdays.

You can contact Brad Smith at brad@macobserver.com.


Hot Cocoa is your source for Mac OS X help, tips, opinions, and resources. Co-authored by Kyle D'Addario, TMO's assistant editor, and Wincent Colaiuta of Wincent.org, this column is the single best Mac OS X resource on the Internet.

Hot Cocoa is published on Fridays.

You can contact Kyle D'addario at kyle@macobserver.com or Wincent Colaiuta at wincent@macobserver.com.


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Mon., 4:40 PM
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OpenOffice 3.0 Released with Support for new MS File Formats
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CNBC: Apple Likely to Hit Goldilocks Price With New MacBook
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iPodObserver - Google Android G1 Phone Orders Climb to 1.5 Million
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Aquafadas Intros VideoPier
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TMO Live Coverage: Apple's Notebook Media Event
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Leaked Apple Docs Confirm New MacBook Models
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Hot Forum Topic - Going Digital from Vinyl
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Sanford Bernstein Upgrades AAPL to Buy
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Baseline 1.4 Adds Time Machine Support
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PopCard 3 Improves Security, Performance
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