The version of iChat that comes with Leopard now allows for tabbed chat windows. Instead of having a seperate window open for every chat conversation, you can have one window with a tab for each buddy. This popular feature of Adium is a welcomed addition to iChat.
A basic wordprocessing function is to sort tables and text. This tutorial shows how to sort using iWork’s Pages application. Screenshots and step-by-step directions included.
With the new version of Safari in Leopard, you can turn at section of a web page into a dashboard widget. Using this new feature in OS X 10.5, I will show you how to make a digg dashboard widget in 15 seconds.
Installing OS X from a DMG file can be difficult. With leopard testing and development, many people are having troubles installing from the supplied binary. Here is how it can be accomplished.
UserDumps are created when a program crashes. These large files contain information to help you (and Microsoft) debug what went wrong. However, these files are massive and can eat up a large amount of hard drive space very quickly. For example, on my system I restored almost 14 gigs of space. Read on for the details…
IE7 can be set to play a sound each time a feed is discovered on a web page. This can be quite useful to some and annoying to others depending on their preference. Here’s how to configure Internet Explorer 7’s sound for RSS feed discovery.
Backup is now super easy in Mac OS X 10.5. Using an external hard drive, networked hard drive, or a separate partition, you can easily do serial backups of your data. These steps will walk you through the setup of Leopard’s Time Machine.
Recently, i had a few problems with a user who had a Blackberry setup and working fine but recently could not reply or even send a new email from his device. This recipe will give a few things to try to resolve this problem (without doing a hard reset of the device!).
In photoshop when something is selected, the section is highlighted with a marching ants type pattern. Hiding this can be helpful at times. This explains how to do it.
When working on a complex image, the Undo function can be a huge help. By default, PHOTO-PAINT sets the level at 10, however you can increase (or decrease) the number of levels by doing the following:
PHOTO-PAINT’s Auto-save can come in quite handy, especially if you are working on complex graphics with multiple masks and effects. It can be configured to periodically save to the file being worked on or to a temporary file so that the existing file remains untouched. Which one you use depends on whether you are looking to prevent loss of data due to hardware or software malfunction or to easily restore your image to the saved state (due to user malfunction).
By default, PHOTO-PAINT uses inches as the default measurement unit. This is used for functions such as creating new images and resampling images to a different size. I do a great deal of work on graphics for use in web pages and prefer pixels as the unit of measure and don’t want to have to constantly change the unit when I’m working on new graphics. To change the default, follow these steps:
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