Google Earth uses iPhone’s accelerometer to tilt the screen from an overhead view to ground level view. While this is pretty cool, there are times when it becomes quite annoying. Here’s how to disable Autotilt so that Google Earth doesn’t take off on its own if you’re walking around or trying to hand your iPhone to your friend.
OS X now contains a very helpful, pop-up dictionary. It works in textedit, safari, and terminal.
Although Excel is super powerful, it can be a bear to learn. Here is a way to put some easy, free help closer to your fingertips.
When typing on your iPhone/Touch you will run into the necessity to use punctuation marks. These are all located on the numbers portion of the keyboard. Instead of pressing the numbers key to get to the punctuation, selecting the mark and then having to change back to the letters portion of the keyboard, you can use a simple press, slide and select motion to select the punctuation and automatically go back to the letters.
If you forward or reply to lots of messages, then this can be a real timesaver. By changing the configuration of Outlook, you can make it automatically close the original message after you have forwarded or replied to it.
By now, you have surely downloaded one or two (or more) applications that you no longer desire to keep. You don’t just want them off of your iPhone, you’d like them gone from your iTunes Library as well.
With Chrome being in its early stages, there will be plenty of updates to the browser. To force the browser to check for a newer version (and install it) follow these steps.
At some point, you are going to need to change or even delete some of your bookmarks or you’re going to want to add folders to keep things organized. Google Chrome seems to hide where you do this, so follow this tech-recipe to make it simple.
Breaking apart a string of text into component words is a requirement for performing searches in text and other text processing. This task is easy in Cocoa/Objective-C, although it requires digging through a few class references in the documentation. If you need a more complicated expansion of a string, at least this code will give you a starting point.
It always bothers me when I am preparing a Word document and the last page contains only a couple of sentences, it seems like such a waste of the page. Word can attempt to shrink the document by one page by slightly reducing the size and spacing of the text in the document.
GoogleUpdate.exe is installed with several google applications. In runs in the background and checks for updates to google’s programs. Many people do not like extra, unnecessary processes running. Here are the directions for disabling this pesky, reoccurring application.
Redirection from one web page to another is a handy tool. This recipe describes the syntax that causes the client to redirect to another URL.
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