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The Apple support rep I talked with, emailed me a list of FaceTime tips that were quite useful for troubleshooting and for usage. I’ve quoted them here for your benefit.
Troubleshooting steps to ensure you can connect to another iPhone 4 FaceTime user:
1. Make sure they are on a …

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For most of us who use Mac, iChat is definitely our daily communication tool via text or video. My favorite thing about iChat is that I am able to connect to another iChat user from almost anywhere: Starbucks. Airport. Office. The firewall worries does not exist in my head …

4 February 2010  Killer Tips,Software
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I do not like Tabs on top, I prefer it to be like Safari 3.0′ tabs below the address bar…
its possible
Fire up terminal – type in the following command (or copy paste)
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO
when you are done, quit terminal, quit Safari and relaunch safari.
you should get the …

27 February 2009  Killer Tips,Software
Post Thumbnail of Shortcut Key: Bringing iChat to the Front

iChat is my main means of daily communication and I’m always using my mouse to bring iChat to the front every time I get a new message. Some of you may already know this super shortcut key to bring iChat to the front, it’s worth mentioning here for iChat …

17 April 2008  Killer Tips,Software
Post Thumbnail of Quick look in trash

10.5
Oooh many times.. I open trash to make sure I dont empty trash of a very important file – then I see several files the same in there.
okay, open one to check, oh no cant!

hmm Quick look comes to rescue, highlight file, click spacebar to quickview it. – ahh nice, …

11 April 2008  Killer Tips
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10.5
As you can see from my recent posts, I do have an recent applications stack in my dock, sometimes I need to open 2 or 3 of them at once, but its a bore to click one application, the stack goes away, click again to open stack again to load …

17 March 2008  Killer Tips
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10.5
my NEW favorite feature!! Apple has a nice feature hidden, again its doable through terminal, it highlights items in a stack when you mouse over them..
type in terminal
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES
then type killall Dock to kill the dock, it will rise again in a few seconds, approx 20 …

15 March 2008  Killer Tips
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10.4
I’ve had a hard time trying to think of a proper title.. but here goes.
open terminal
type the following – defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES – Log out and Login again.
now the fun starts.
Open dashboard – press F12 (default – unless you changed it)
click and drag the widget you like (to …

6 March 2008  Killer Tips
Post Thumbnail of Solid Blue, Blue Rimmed Buttons

ever notice this ?

could be anywhere, I usually see when I close a web browser in safari, etc
one is solid, all of us know (I should day most of us know), this usually means pressing return/enter will accept.
what about that blue light glow, around cancel ?
Simply tap the spacebar, rimmed …

7 February 2008  Killer Tips
Post Thumbnail of Leopard: The Glass Dock

Leopard did a lot of UI (user interface) tweaking. They have completely redesigned the dock and the default look is the glass.

It is certainly a nice dock; however, it looks too busy for me. If you switch the dock from the bottom to the left or right side, …

31 October 2007  Killer Tips
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