Vista : Add shortcut to ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ Dialog to Right Click menu

Jimmy S

This recipe will explain how to easily add a “Eject Drive” or “Safely Remove Hardware” menu option to your right-click menu in Vista.

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OS X Mail: Automatically Check Your Spelling When You Are Finished Composing an Email

Rob Rogers

By default, Mail checks your spelling as you type. If this distracts you and causes you to lose focus on the message you are composing, you can set Mail to wait and check your spelling when you are finished.

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iTunes 8: Enable Half-Star Ratings

Rob Rogers

The 5 star rating system in iTunes just doesn’t quite make the cut. There are songs that are definitely better than a 4 but not quite a 5. How do you account for rating songs more accurately towards your liking? By enabling half-star ratings you have 10 units of measurement instead of only 5.

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iTunes 8: Automatically Import Inserted CDs

Rob Rogers

If you’re like me, you import every CD you get into iTunes. Instead of being prompted to import a CD everytime you insert one, you can have iTunes import the CD automatically.

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iPhone SDK: Solve [UINavigationController pushViewController:] unrecognized selector sent to instance

Quinn McHenry

I adore coding to the iPhone SDK. It’s the most joyful coding I’ve done in the quarter century (gasp!) I’ve spent coding various computer systems. It’s a combination of Objective-C (elegant) and Cocoa (beautiful). There is one exception I keep getting and just infrequently enough that I forget why I get it. I thought someone might benefit from this because it’s an easy trap to fall into.

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IE7/IE8: How to Disable Automatic Image Resizing

Rob Rogers

When you view large images, Internet Explorer’s default settings make the browser resize the image to fit within the browser window. If you would like to see the image in its original size instead, you can disable this functionality.

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Outlook 2007: How to View Nonconsecutive Dates on the Calendar

Rob Rogers

Outlook’s calendar displays normally displays dates in a consecutive manner. Sometimes, however, it is useful to view several nonconsecutive dates on your Calendar.

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Outlook 2007: Make a Backup Copy of Your Signatures

Rob Rogers

Signatures are the text and/or pictures that are automatically placed at the end of the emails you send out. If you’ve put some time and energy into creating your signature(s), then you should make a backup so you have it if disaster strikes (or if you are changing computers).

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Leopard: Recovering from a Dock Disaster (Like dragging a large number of files to the dock instead of a folder)

Rob Rogers

While the Leopard’s Dock is a amazingly useful tool, it can be rather unforgiving if you have a mishap. For example, I was dragging the photos from Christmas to a folder on my Dock. I missed the folder and now I have a tiny Dock with very tiny icons. Such a mess is a major pain to clean up by removing each image (or file) from the dock. There is an easier way.

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Leopard: The Easy Way to Make an Alias

Rob Rogers

An alias functions in much the same way as a Windows shortcut. It provides an icon that points to the original file and this icon can be placed anywhere (in a stack on the dock, the desktop, etc) while requiring minimal storage space. Using the File –> Make Alias method takes a little more effort than I like, since not ony do you have to select the items from the menu, you have to clean up the alias name so that it no longer includes the word “alias.”

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Leopard: Stop Application Icons from Bouncing on the Dock When Launched

Rob Rogers

When you launch an application, its dock icon will bounce until the application appears. If you find this annoying, you can easily get rid of it and be done with this distraction.

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This is a follow up to a previous recipe i posted that explained how to add custom commands to your right-click menu on your desktop.

This recipe will explain how to easily add a “Eject Drive” or “Safely Remove Hardware” menu option to your right-click menu in Vista.

By default, Mail checks your spelling as you type. If this distracts you and causes you to lose focus on the message you are composing, you can set Mail to wait and check your spelling when you are finished.

The 5 star rating system in iTunes just doesn’t quite make the cut. There are songs that are definitely better than a 4 but not quite a 5. How do you account for rating songs more accurately towards your liking? By enabling half-star ratings you have 10 units of measurement instead of only 5.

If you’re like me, you import every CD you get into iTunes. Instead of being prompted to import a CD everytime you insert one, you can have iTunes import the CD automatically.

When you view large images, Internet Explorer’s default settings make the browser resize the image to fit within the browser window. If you would like to see the image in its original size instead, you can disable this functionality.

Outlook’s calendar displays normally displays dates in a consecutive manner. Sometimes, however, it is useful to view several nonconsecutive dates on your Calendar.

Signatures are the text and/or pictures that are automatically placed at the end of the emails you send out. If you’ve put some time and energy into creating your signature(s), then you should make a backup so you have it if disaster strikes (or if you are changing computers).

When you launch an application, its dock icon will bounce until the application appears. If you find this annoying, you can easily get rid of it and be done with this distraction.

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