I've mentioned GeekTool a couple of times before, and it has recently been updated to version 3. The best thing about the update is how much simpler the interface is. Before the interface was a bit intimidating, but now it is much easier to use. For.
Topics: General, System Prefs., Terminal

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If you are looking to reduce the size of your Time Machine backup, it's quite easy to go through you backups and remove files. Just enter Time Machine, locate the file you want to delete, right-click on it and choose "Delete All...
Topics: General, System Prefs.

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Here's a tip I just read over at the brilliant Hawk Wings blog. You can copy a person's email address in Mail by clicking on their name and choosing "Copy Address from the contextual menu. For some reason, Snow Leopard will copy the email...
Topics: Mail

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Every time Apple brings out a new version of OS X, we compile a list of our favourite Terminal commands for enabling hidden features and changing hidden settings (here are the lists for Tiger and Leopard ). For those who are new to Terminal Commands,...
Topics: Dock/Exposé/Dashboard, Finder, Terminal

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If you find you have a multi-page PDF with huge margins on every page, you can use Preview to crop those margins down. With the PDF open in Preview, make sure that the sidebar is visible (in the View menu) and set it to display thumbnails using the...
Topics: Preview

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