Archive for October, 2008

Learn a simple trick to see the time remaining while playing back a video clip—something that can’t be done in QuickTime Player.

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See time remaining during video clip playback

If you’re having trouble downloading an Office 2008 update via Microsoft’s AutoUpdate application, Ted Landau diagnoses the cause and digs up a possible solution.

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Bugs & Fixes: When updating Microsoft Office fails

Four-finger swiping on multi-touch trackpads have a few interesting behaviors not shown in the Trackpad System Preferences panel. As documented, a four-finger down swipe executes Exposé, while a four-finger up swipe shows the desktop.

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Multi-touch behaviors on new Macbook/Pro Unibody

One thing that irks me about the iCal.app / Mail.app integration on OS X is that iCal chooses (based on some unknown criteria and without user input) the sending address (and hence account) from which to email invitations and responses to invitations. Since I have multiple calendars and multiple email accounts, it is often that I want to choose the specific account when sending an invitation or replying to an invitation.

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Select Mail.app sender for iCal invitations and replies

I’ve always had a problem trying to read the small fonts on lyrics websites for songs I know on guitar. Now I just copy and paste all the lyrics from the page, use Quicksilver ’s Large Text function, and I have all my lyrics nice and large and taking up the whole screen!

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Use Quicksilver for large lyrics display

You’ve ripped a DVD you own but danged if you can figure out how to make an iTunes-compatible version with chapter markers.

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Creating chapters in iTunes-compatible movies

If OS X’s Front Row media-viewer app isn’t doing it for you, there’s another, geekier option: Plex. Gina Trapani explains what it is and how to use it.

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Geek Factor: Plex, the Front Row alternative

Learn a few ways to strip text formatting from the clipboard, including a unique solution for doing it within Safari

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Quickly strip formatting from copied text

When viewing photos in the grid layout of iPhoto ‘08 running on Leopard, simply press the spacebar to zoom the selected image to full size of image browsing part of the window. Press the Space Bar again to return to the grid view, or use the Left and Right Arrow keys to scroll through your images

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Quickly zoom photos in iPhoto’s browse mode

You say you’d like to view your Address Book contacts in Excel or Numbers? Here’s how.

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Exporting Address Book to a spreadsheet