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Vista: Clear Recent Items List on Shut Down

Vista keeps track of the files that you have opened, allowing you easy access to your recent work. You can clear this list each time you shut down so that you have a clean slate for the new work session the next time you boot up. Follow these steps:

Google Reader: How To Share Starred Items

When group blogging, sharing certain posts from your feeds can be very beneficial. By sharing your starred item with others, you prevent others in your group to having to filter through that same content. Here is how to share your starred items with others…

Leopard Mail: How to Hide or Remove Notes from Inbox

By default, Mail 3.0 puts all new Notes into the inbox. As all notes can be found through the Notes link in the Reminder section, this is redundant. Here is how to keep your Notes from cluttering your inbox.

Leopard Dictionary: Check Grammar

OS X 10.5 now includes the ability to check grammar. Any application that supports Leopard’s Dictionary will also now have the ability to check grammar along with spelling. Here is how to enable this feature…

OS X Leopard: Limit computer usage times using Parental Controls

Parental Controls in OS X were introduced in version 10.5 (Leopard) and provide settings to restrict the actions of certain users. One common consideration for parents is limiting the amount of time their children use the computer. We know as adults that what starts as ordering a stapler ends up three hour later with 15 new browser tabs open.. the internet is so compelling and vast. This Tech-Recipe will describe the options of time limits in OS X.

Leopard Dictionary: Add, Remove, and Rearrange Dictionaries including Japanese

I am not exactly sure why Apple included a Japanese dictionary in OSX 10.5. If you would like to see it, here is how you enable it. By using these directions you can also add or remove the wikipedia and apple sections from the dictionary as well.

Leopard Mail: Add and Remove Stationery

One of the new features of Mail 3.0 is the ability to use stationery. Adding a pretty theme or background to an outgoing messages is now painfully easy. I’m not sure that I like the idea of email stationery… cough, outlook, cough. However, in certain circumstances, it works well. Here how to add and remove stationery from your email messages.

OS X Leopard: Create new user account with parental controls

Mac OS X Leopard includes new Parental Controls to help protect your children from computers (or help protect your computer from your children). In Apple’s way, this process is simple, but there are some options to consider. This recipe describes adding a new user account that will be under Parental Control and discusses some related concepts.

Leopard: Map Any Address in Google Maps

With the new version of address box in OS X 10.5, you are just one click away from mapping any address into Google Maps. Here is how easy it is…

Leopard Terminal: TABS!

Terminal junkies rejoice! Tabs are here, tabs are here! Like with the new iChat, OS X 10.5 finally allows terminal windows to be stacked in tabs. Taming all the multiple ongoing terminal sessions as never been easier…

Leopard Finder: Cover Flow Navigation

In OS X 10.5 Apple has brought the iPod/iPhone style Cover Flow navigation system to Finder. When flipping through pictures, documents, or tunes, this can be a highly efficient way to navigate through a series of files.

iChat 4.0: Now with Invisibility Cloak

Sometimes MightyQ needs to be online and chatting with fellow programmers without being visible to everybody. Why? Because if I see him online, I am chatting with him and slowly him down. In the Leopard version of iChat, you now can be online but invisible to our those on your buddy list.

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