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iPhoto, Exterminate Duplicated Photos

Upon importing our most memorable photos to iPhoto, duplication of original photos can't be avoided, sometimes even take up most of our precious storage space. I believe we won't let duplicated stack of photos fill up our free space.

In the case that you want to free your storage, you can delete your original photos. But beforehand, let's check whether those photos are already inside your iPhoto Library.

There is an usual place where you can find those mentioned photos…

iPhoto Option Tricks

It's really exciting to experience the new iPhoto, especially the process of teaching iPhoto on recognizing faces. Indeed, it's rather difficult to get correct suggestion from iPhoto with limited number of photos (with human face) imported but to me, the process is the fun part.

Skipping the discussion on how to perform face recognition (which can be learnt from MacWorld Demo), this article will focus on discussing the magic of option key:

edit photo directly from iPhoto,
change rotating orientation,
batch rejection of photo suggestions, and
switch between many iPhoto libraries.

Let's proceed further…

Mac Screen Capture Tricks

Capturing screen of Mac is not just limited to keystrokes Command-Shift-3 alone to capture the whole screen. Some may feel unnecessary to know many screen capture tricks. Some feel the urge to explore more of this nifty screen capture features.

As I've experienced, I found out many practical screen capture tricks, such as Screen Capture Part of Screen, Screen Capture the Screen Saver and many others.

If you've followed UsingMac for quite a time, you will find that I've mentioned some of the screen capture tricks in my previous articles. Here, I will add more tricks, along with the old tricks, to provide more complete and useful resource.

Before going further, you can take a look of other resources related to Screen Capture:

Let's get started!

Tricks for Mac Stickies

Stickies, as the name suggests, is an application readily available on your Mac to let you stick your thoughts - in a form of small notes - on your Desktop.
Stickies reside inside Applications → Stickies.

Not only limited to making notes, but with Stickies you can also perform several tricks, such as embedding picture, scrolling down notes, making stickies translucent, and many other tricks.

Upon continuing reading this article, you will see several tricks for using Mac Stickies.

10 Nifty Mail Tricks that You Definitely Want to Know

As a solid procrastinator myself (and a mysterious Mac fanboy), I tend to stare all day long at my Mailbox and Subscribed Feeds. Even though you are less similar to me, under the depth of my heart, I still believe that you will frequently check your Mailbox. This motivates me in bringing up these cool, less-known tricks in using your Mail that will definitely benefit you, not to make you procrastinate further but to make your spare time more enjoyable.

These tricks include message redirection, message rejection, slideshow of attachments and other nifty Mail tricks. You will definitely want to know more about these as I was in the first place.

Change Mail Alert Sound

Two days before, I just discussed about how you can Change Flag Icon of Mail. I know if you've chance, you will try that.

And now, I'm going to introduce you how to change your Mail alert sound. If you notice, your Mail has four types of alert sound, i.e. Mail Fetch Error, Mail Sent, New Mail and No Mail. The function of these types of alert sound are self-explanatory so I am sure I don't need to explain further.

These alert sounds are stored in your Mail application package with the format AIFF. Before going further, I will give you a brief explanation of this audio format.

AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)

According to wikipedia, AIFF is..

Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was co-developed by Apple Computer in 1988 [1] based on Electronic Arts' Interchange File Format (IFF, widely used on Amiga systems) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems. AIFF is also used by Silicon Graphics Incorporated.

This audio format is non-compressed, lossless format which uses much more disk space than MP3 but helps you in streaming in multiple audio files from disk to your application. Hm.. A bit difficult to understand it, maybe this can help you, "It's fast yet expensive audio format."

You can go to Simply the Best to get the various sound effects in AIFF format.

And next, you're going to be directed to the location of these sound files.

Change Flag Icon of Mail

When browsed through your inbox with your Mail application, sometimes you need to flag certain useful email for future reference. With simple keystrokes, Shift Command L you can flag selected mails.

And now, do you want to change the icon of the flag as shown in screenshot below?

Mark As Starred

Firefox Trick: Nested Fox

This morning, I stumbled on this article: Firefox inside Firefox. That article brought up a really cool Firefox trick which you can open a Firefox browser in a Firefox browser. Technically speaking, it's a nested Firefox, or in short: Nested Fox.

And to my surprise, it's easy to do the trick, you only need to type and run this url: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul.

There are some limitations on how many Nested Foxes that you can make:

You feel extremely bored
You can't type on the last Nested Fox url bar
Your Firefox crash
Your Mac has run out of battery
You are drunk and got someone waiting on the bed

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