News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
If you use Screen Sharing a lot in OS X 10.6, there are a couple ways to make it easier to connect to your Macs. First, there’s ScreenSharingMenulet, which places an icon in your menu bar, showing machines you’ve previously connected to via Screen Sharing. If you’d rather keep your menu bar uncluttered, though, here’s a built-in solution.
Rob Griffiths | Feb 19, 2010
Today’s tip is for all of those who use both iChat and Facebook, and wished you could use Facebook chat from within iChat. As of fairly recently, it seems this is now possible, and easy to do.
Rob Griffiths | Feb 17, 2010
When Snow Leopard first came out, I wrote about the new-and-improved Services feature, including what seemed to be a bug regarding which Services do and do not show up in the contextual menu. For example, try this experiment on your 10.6 machine. Select some text in TextEdit, then Control-click on the selection. In the contextual menu that appears, you should see three entries at the bottom of the menu: New Note With Selection, New Email With Selection, and Make New Sticky Note.
Rob Griffiths | Feb 11, 2010
There are a few spots in OS X applications where you have the ability to choose a photo to use as a representation of you—Address Book and iChat are two that come to mind. In Address Book, click on your entry, click on Edit, then double-click on the picture box next to your name.
Rob Griffiths | Feb 8, 2010
Here’s a very simple iTunes hint that may come in very handy for those of you who may have duplicate song issues in iTunes. As you’re probably aware, iTunes includes a tool to help find the duplicates; just select File -> Show Duplicates, and iTunes will create a list of all the songs it believes are duplicates.
Rob Griffiths | Jan 27, 2010
The Recent Items entry in the Apple menu tracks recently-used applications, documents, and servers. At the bottom of the menu is an entry to clear all of your recent activity. But what if you want a more fine-grained control over removing entries from these lists? For example, say you want to remove one or more individual entries. Christopher Breen explains how to do just that by editing a plist file (with the help of a free tool).
Rob Griffiths | Jan 25, 2010
This morning Apple released a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple’s development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications. That seems to be the only major change in the latest build, according to the SDK’s read me, which continues to list some known issues. Apple says “this second beta is known to be incompatible with installation folders other than the default /Developer.” Given the importance of UI on the Mac, Interface Builder is a pretty critical tool in the development process, and some developers had chosen to hold off on their efforts until the SDK was revised. Apple unveiled the iPhone SDK at a special event earlier this month, allowing developers to begin building applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Several high-profile companies have already jumped onboard, demoing their applications at the event. Highlighting the demos was AOL with a native AIM client; other applications from Electronic Arts, Salesforce.com, and Apple were also shown.
