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OS X: How to Use a Screen Saver as Your Desktop Background

Contributed by shamanstears on October 20, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

If you are bored with your desktop and want to give it a little style, or if you just want to impress your friends, you can run a screen saver as your desktop’s background to liven it up.

OS X: How To Burn A Multisession CD (or DVD)

Contributed by shamanstears on October 19, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

If you would like to be able to burn a single disc, multiple times, OS X allows you to do this without having to buy rewritable CDs or DVDs. This allow you to maximize disc space usage as you can use the disc multiple times to burn smaller folders and files.

Macbook Air – Enable Four Finger Gestures on OS X Leopard 10.5.7

Contributed by seamonkey420 on May 12, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

This recipe is for all of you macbook air (pre-oct 2008 owners) who are lusting after those macbook pro and macbook air users w/the four finger gestures.

Leopard: Deleting a Boot Camp Partition

Contributed by shamanstears on April 6, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

If you have installed Windows using Boot Camp, the partition has eaten away at some valuable hard drive space. When you are done with running Windows on your Mac and want to regain that partition space you can delete the Boot Camp partition without affecting the data on your OS X partition.

OS X Leopard / VMWare : Turn on and off opening of files in virtual machines (ie .doc in office for windows)

Contributed by seamonkey420 on April 1, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

This recipe will explain how to enable / prevent VMWare Fusion from opening documents when in the Mac OS / Finder (ie not running in a virtual session). For example, I have Windows XP running in VMWare Fusion and in turn installed Office 2007 and also shared my User folder in XP. After doing this, I noticed that when i tried to open a .doc or .txt; VMWare Fusion would start my XP Machine and open it in Word 2007 (cool at first but annoying since i had iWork installed and preferred using Pages). For others though this might be nice integration. Here’s how to enable/disable this feature.

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Leopard Preview: Performing Basic Image Editing

Contributed by shamanstears on January 27, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

Preview contains some simple image editing tools that can come in handy when you need to perform a quick fix on a photo. These tools include custom black and white levels, color adjustments and exposures.

iCal: Email Your Cellphone Reminders of Important Events

Contributed by shamanstears on January 26, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

If your Mac is always on, you can have iCal send an email reminder to your cellphone for those extra important events. This is great for those with a busy schedule.

Leopard: Show Item Info in Finder’s Icon View

Contributed by shamanstears on January 25, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

By default, Finder’s icon view simply shows you the name of the directory or file. By enabling Show Item Info, you can get additional information like the number of items in a directory, the dimensions of an image, or the length of a music or video file. This can be done for all files and directories on your Mac, or you can enable it individually on select folders.