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OS X: Quick Screen Invert

People typically like either use light text on a dark background or dark text or a light background. With the invert feature in OS X, the user can quickly jump from one to another. This is frequently nice when trying to use your MBP in direct sunlight.

Photoshop: Enlarge Layer Palette Thumbnail Size

If you work extensively with layers in Photoshop, you may be suffering from layer-palette-thumnail-squintitis, a condition resulting from squinting at the tiny little thumbnails in the layer palette. Until medical treatments are available, you can just make them bigger using the steps in this short but sweet recipe.

Vista: Shortcuts to Shutdown and Restart Explorer

Since the early days of windows, users have realized that rebooting explorer will frequently save a whole system reboot. With vista, you can shutdown and restart explorer very quickly with these shortcuts.

Vista: Enable / Disable Performance Options

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Much of Vista’s bloat comes from the Aero interface. By turning off some of these features, the user can improve the performance of the system.

Vista: How to Set Disk Space Quota

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If you have many users that use one computer, it is quite likely that one of those people will be a disk space hog. The administrator can limit maximum disk space usage by setting a quota.

Outlook 2007: Upgrade to Color Categories

If you have upgraded your Outlook to the 2007 version, you will need to perform an upgrade to Color Categories to maintain a consistent look for marking and categorizing your emails. If you don’t, you will have a mixture of bars and squares that make for a confusing Inbox.

Apple TV: Stream Internet Radio or any audio to your TV (AirTunes)

With the latest version of Apple TV, the user can stream any audio from iTunes to the Apple TV. This includes internet radio! Plus, you can stream audio while you perform other tasks on your Apple TV device. No hacks required. This is a new, easy to use feature from Apple TV Take Two.

Leopard: Disable / Enable Translucent Menu Bar

With Leopard, Apple introduced the translucent menu bar effect. Many people did not like this because it is difficult to see on some backgrounds. With the release of 10.5.2, this is easily turned on or turned off based on your preferences.

XP / Vista: How to Rip DVDs to Apple TV for Free

Using free software, ripping your movies or TV episodes to your Apple TV is simple. These directions and screenshots will help you get your collection on your Apple TV in no time.

Keynote: Print Slides in Columns

Printing nine slides per printed page is a common way of making handouts from powerpoint or keynote presentations. In Keynote, finding this printing option is difficult. Here is where to find it…

Nokia N800/N810: How To Find the MAC Address

If your wireless router uses MAC filtering, you will need to know the MAC address of your internet tablet so that it may connect to the internet. You could take the back off of your device to find this information, but there is a simpler way.

Nokia N800/N810: Remove Unnecessary Items from Status Bar

The Status bar on your OS2008 internet tablet informs you of various information such as battery life, Bluetooth status, etc. However, having too many items on the status bar can be overwhelming and look rather overcrowded. By removing the items you don’t use, you are left with a clean, easily read status bar.

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