If you have the misfortune of having a DVD or CD stuck in your drive, here’s a tip that will work in most cases.
If you rely on the Trackpad instead of a mouse, you should explore the options that are available to increase its functionality and increase your productivity.
If you use the VLC media player to watch your videos, you probably watch them in fullscreen mode. Instead of constantly having to change the display mode everytime you launch a new video to watch, change the default to fullscreen and start enjoying your movie immediately.
To make your Convenience Key(s) truly convenient, you should change the functionality so that they bring up the application that you desire when pressed.
If your organization uses Outlook to schedule meetings, then you have surely encountered a meeting request that conflicts with your plans for that time. You can use Outlook to propose a new meeting time to the meeting coordinator and Outlook will even help you find the next available time that all invitees are free.
Lots of websites provide versions that are modified for the popular iPhone. If you like the looks of these modified sites, you can use them on your Nokia N800/N810 by modifying the User Agent of the MicroB web browser.
The 3rd button on your mouse (better known as the wheel) provides some nice functionality on Google’s Chrome browser. While they seem simplistic in nature, they can be real time savers.
If you use Outlook in your organization, you might not be getting the full benefit of the email client. Outlook allows a sender to assign a category to their email. This category is then assigned to the email when the recipient receives it and the category is added to their category list, if needed. This can be a great help in keeping people on the same page when filtering categories and such. Unfortunately, their is a recommended rule that clears these categories and totally defeats the purpose. Here’s how to disable the rule and keep the email category assigned by the sender.
Are you a rock band-aholic like me? I promise, i won’t tell anyone. This recipe is for PS3 Rock Band users that play the online quickplay. This recipes explains how to add more online players in Multiplayer Online Quickplay mode while still keeping the current band members a part of your band.
If you receive an email from someone that you really wish didn’t have your email address, you can make them think that they don’t. By using the Bounce functionality that is included in the OS X mail client to fool the pest into thinking that their email did not reach the intended goal. The sender will receive a notification that the email was not delivered because the addresses had permanent fatal errors and the user is unknown.
I added quite a few bookmarklets to my Bookmarks bar and was unhappy with the same default icon that showed for each one. There are no settings currently available within Chrome to change the icon, but there is a way to fix them that works quite well.
In the latest version of iTunes, there is no obvious preference setting for removing the arrows in your library that point to the Apple iTunes Music Store. Here is how to remove those arrows in OS X.
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