By eliminating the need to leave your keyboard, you can perform a number of actions so much quicker. These include navigation, message formatting, message management, and editing.
Tapping the background on the homescreen will bring up Quickplay. Quickplay allows you quick access to radio stations, apps, music, video, pictures and even bookmarked sites.
When creating screencasts for youtube, I create, export and upload all in HD quality. These are the settings that I have found to create high quality youtube videos once exported out of ScreenFlow.
Sometimes grabbing screenshots from video or DVD can be a major pain. The VLC Player makes it easy and delivers sharp looking images.
Lately, there has been a sudden resurgence back into touchscreen technology and adding of touchscreens to laptops and other devices. Windows 7 is setup to handle touchscreen input pretty good out of the box, however trying to use the scrollbars and start menu can prove to be a challenge on netbooks with a touchscreen or smaller devices. This recipe will show you how to use an existing Vista utility, Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 (free) to optimize the GUI to allow easier navigation using touchscreen inputs. This barely known but very useful add-on also will give us the Origami add-on and also picture password as an added bonus. 🙂
By default, OS X deposits your captured screenshots onto your desktop. If you take a lot of screenshots, this can clutter things up very quickly. By changing the location, you can keep your desktop clean and your screenshots organized.
If you find that you often end up with multiple open browser windows, Safari 4 makes it simple to combine all of the windows into one, using tabs to contain each of the open websites.
If you run a lot of programs at startup, it can take a while for your system to boot up. To speed up the process, you can enable Boot-Only fetching so that the prefetcher focuses on the booting process instead of both booting and application launching.
Kids love using the iPhone and iPod Touch. However, parents may want to limit what their children can access through these devices. This simple tutorial shows how to use parental restrictions to block the viewing of YouTube videos or the purchasing of applications.
If you want to keep your email, voicemail and SMS messages stored in one easy to use location, your Gmail inbox is the ideal place. By enabling SMS forwarding to your email, you can use Gmail to receive and store the messages as well as reply to them.
reQall is a voice-enabled service that allows you to use your iPhone or Blackberry to dictate reminders to yourself. By incorporating Gmail’s filters, you can use it to take advantage of other useful services you might be using, like Remember The Milk and Evernote. You can also instruct reQall to recognize calls from certain phones, so that they can leave you reminders as well.
By default, video does not automatically begin playing when you open it up. By using a simple Terminal command, you can enable AutoPlay and enjoy your movies without having to click Play.
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