Streaming CBC in iTunes!

September 26th, 2009

There is a relatively new way to stream CBC in iTunes!
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Disarm the Caps Lock key

April 17th, 2009

I am always tripping over the “caps lock” key and turning it on accidentally so I looked for a way to turn it off.

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Mail.app maintenance

March 30th, 2009

Mail is a pretty good application but after you have used it for a long time it can appear to become a bit sluggish and develop all sorts of anomalous behaviour such as phantom and missing messages, as well as erroneous counts, messages not deleteing, and so on.  This can be fixed!

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Word freak tip…

January 19th, 2009

In iApps, such as Mail and Safari, and better behaved 3rd party apps, if you put the cursor over a word and press Control-Command-d you will see a definition of the word. The definition you actually see will depend on your system language. I tried to capture an image of what happens, but invoking Shift-Command-4 causes the definition window to disappear…

ref.

http://www.ehmac.ca/showthread.php?t=48438

Make iCal display time in 24hr mode.

January 15th, 2009

Make iCal display time in 24hr mode.

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System Dictionary

January 14th, 2009

I can’t resist this one………Make British English system default.

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Make Dock icons show Hidden apps as hidden.

January 12th, 2009

Make Dock icons show Hidden apps as hidden.

I have got the first tweak to the point where I would have liked to have had instructions the first time I did it…

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