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FEB
15

Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


There is an update for Mac OS X to 10.5.2 which they claim can improve the stability and performance of current version of Mac OS X 10.5.1. together with security update.

10.5.2 Update
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FEB
05

Macbook Paper!

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Found this video from youtube, very creative idea, cool. Please go to this website to download the pdf to create your very own MacBook Paper! Enjoy!

FEB
02

Usingmac.com publish a book

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Yes, after few months of work hard, we finally done up our book. You can see this book soon in your area the nearest book store.


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JAN
25

It's Something Like This..

You Only Need Preview..

The drawer above can be easily made with only your Mac OS X Leopard little humble Preview.

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JAN
16

Mac Tear Down Round Up

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


NOV
01

Leopard packs Terminal differently in such a way that it will definitely increase your productivity.

Old Tiger's Terminal

Let's see our Terminal way of saying by our old Tiger, in which I discussed in my other article Styling Terminal

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OCT
28

Leopard Take A Look - Mail

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Leopard Mail supports AOL, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. And many features added, including RSS.

Mail and Spotlight

You will be really often to use Spotlight inside your Mail. Spotlight can spot messages, to-dos, notes, or even RSS feeds inside your Mail. And I love the new smarter Spotlight ranking system. Let's see how Spotlight search the keyword Leopard for certain RSS. You can compare with Spotlight search result with the very same keyword for entire Mail.

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OCT
27

Leopard Take A Look - Desktop

I believe you don't want to miss all this features, such as Quick Look and Fan View.

Automatic, Fan and Grid View

Clck on your Folder that sits on the Dock. When the contextual menu appeared, mouse hover the View as and there will be three types of new view for Leopard : Automatic, Fan, and Grid.

If you choose automatic view, Leopard will automatically switch to fan view if your folder only has some contents and will switch to grid view for folder with a bunch of contents.
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OCT
27

Road to Leopard

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Time for Upgrade : 1h 53m 14s
Time for Clean Install : 1h 2m 27s
Total Time Estimation : 2h 55m 41s

Backing Up Data

You can use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. You can see my older post related to this.

Preparing to Install

Once you inserted the installation disk and run the installation, something like this will appear. Restart your Mac to make it reboot from disk. The big 'X' logo is so eye-catching that it's hard to notice there is a Restart button at the bottom-right corner.

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OCT
27

Hi, Leopard

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Finally, we come into this very exciting moment. The arrival of Leopard.
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OCT
17

Styling Terminal

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Increasing your productivity and your interest in using Terminal can be started from customizing and styling your Terminal.

Terminal Inspector
Terminal Inspector will be needed to customize your Terminal. To show up Terminal inspector, you can either pressing I when you're inside Terminal or tracing through menu bar File→Show Info.

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OCT
14

DIY Replacing Mac Harddisk

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Replacing harddisk for Mac is not difficult if we already have the knowledge. Click on the title to see the DIY tutorial.

MacBook Pro


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SEP
21

Change the Precision

  1. Open your Calculator. You can either do this either by accessing to your Application folder or by using your QuickSilver with keyword calc
  2. Activate the calculator by clicking on it. Then go to calculator menu bar
  3. Click on top down menu View

AUG
28

It's very lucky for me to discover shortcuts for photoshop CS3 and CS2 presented by Trevor Morris.

It's really amazing, great, and wonderful. However, we have to set them (can see how Jennifer make it..) and the most difficult part is we have to memorize them all. It's like my dull memory being insulted every time I tried to memorize and accidentally forgot them all in an instant.

But hey, why don't we set our shortcut to be windows way? We just need to quickly access to the menu bar and pull down all the menu inside, sounds nice.. Let's give it a try!

First of all, we need a very powerful keyboard shortcut to access directly to the menu bar. And for the sake of our comfort, I prefer to change it (and also recommend you) ?.

Now we can easily reach our menu bar just like those windows fellows' *ALT+F*. The difference is, the pop down menu won't reveal itself unless it's told to do so.

Thing is getting more and more interesting now. After make sure that your is highlighted, you can jump from one menu to another menu by typing a little portion of menu tab you want to go. I provide you example, maybe you need it (I am not insulting your intelligence, really).

Ok, I don't want to spoil you too much, experience it yourself, that's the best way to master your shortcut. Enjoy experience with your new photoshop skill.

Changing Shortcut for Accessing Menu Bar

# Invoke your QuickSilver Space

# Type in keymouse to enter the pane.

# Go under *Keyboard Shortcut* tab

# The one highlighted in image below is what you should press (or maybe change) in order to access to menu bar

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AUG
23

Have you ever watched DVD using Mac? Or listen to your CD via iTunes?

Whenever you insert the DVD, Mac will ask you what to do (expect you've set up the autoplay), it's really annoying, can it be automated? Of course it can. Now let's set up the autoplay.

Step by step instructions, using keyboard for all step :

  1. Invoke your QuickSilver Spc
  2. Go to System Preferences, use keyword syspref and hit