News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
When you insert recordable media—CD-R, DVD-R, etc.—into your Mac’s SuperDrive, the Finder will pop-up a dialog asking what you’d like to do with it. If you click Ignore, perhaps because you intend to burn the disc later in Toast, the Finder won’t mount the disc. Eventually (if you’re like me) you’ll either forget about it entirely, or remember you inserted a disc, but can’t remember if it was a CD-R, or a single- or dual-layer DVD-R.
Rob Griffiths | May 29, 2009
In Safari 3 (and earlier versions of the browser), you could use the Up Arrow (or Down Arrow) key to quickly move the cursor to the start (or end) of the Google search box—this made it really easy to add terms to either end of something you’d already typed. In Safari 4 Beta, however, the Up and Down Arrow keys have been repurposed—now they scroll through the suggested matches for your Google search terms.
Rob Griffiths | May 28, 2009
Recently, I wrote about controlling iTunes from the keyboard, but that article dealt with keyboard shortcuts and tips when iTunes is the frontmost application. There are also ways to control iTunes when you’re working in other programs, without having to switch to iTunes to control it. iTunes provides some ways of controlling it, but third-party iTunes controllers give you a plethora of options, and offer some unique features as well.
Kirk McElhearn | May 27, 2009
With Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Apple added a helpful new troubleshooting feature to the “unexpectedly quit” dialog. Because the addition only pops up occasionally, I had never had any personal experience with it until last week. However, its appearance on my Mac turned out to be the key to a quick resolution of the problem.
Ted Landau | May 25, 2009
Have you ever wanted to create a “video wall” on your Mac—that is, fill your screen with a bunch of different video clips, all playing at the same time? I can’t say that this is something I’ve ever needed to do myself, but it does make for an excellent demo. While I’ve seen commercial rigs that do this with a mix of separate monitors and associated hardware and software, I’ve not seen anything like today’s tip, which uses QuickTime Player to create a do-it-yourself video wall on your monitor.
Rob Griffiths | May 25, 2009
Have you ever wanted to flatten a given folder’s structure? Flattening a folder means moving all the files from their various subfolders into one parent folder. You may want to do this to ease archiving, or to rearrange files that are stored in subfolders on a daily basis into a monthly wrap-up folder, for instance.
Rob Griffiths | May 22, 2009
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
