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March 19, 2009

Twitter Clients for Mac OS X

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by Dee-Ann LeBlanc

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Twitter, even if you haven’t used it. While the folks at Twitter are proud of the simplicity of their approach, having every Tweet from every person you’re following just flow into one long stream can get overwhelming.

Fortunately there’s a Twitter API that allows third party developers to write tools that interact with it. In the OS X world, there are many different Twitter clients. This article discusses four of them: EventBox, TweetDeck, twhirl, and Twitterrific.
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March 17, 2009

How to Make Screenshots From Your Mac

Filed under: Macintosh — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 8:00 am

by David Strom

This tip is the Mac companion to an earlier Tiplet article that talks about making screenshots on a Windows PC. The tool for the Mac is called Grab and is part of the Mac OS Utilities. If you go into your Applications/Utilities folder, you will find it there. It is simple and quick and produces high-quality images that you can paste into your documents, post to your blog, or incorporate into your presentations.
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March 15, 2009

Adding a Calendar to Your OS X Menu Bar

Filed under: applications,Macintosh — Tags: , , — admin @ 8:00 am

by Dee-Ann LeBlanc

There are times when you really need to look at a calendar. You could open iCal, but that seems like overkill. One option is to download an application that can add a calendar to your menu bar.

There’s plenty of options for adding this feature to your Mac. Some are very simple and just offer a calendar, while others come as part of more complex packages.
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March 14, 2009

Fix the Scroll Ball on the Apple Mighty Mouse

Filed under: computer hardware,Macintosh — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 8:00 am

by Nathaniel Poor

If you have an Apple “Mighty Mouse,” the white one with the scroll ball, you probably use the scroll ball a lot. If not, I suggest you try it. If you do use the scroll ball a lot, it has probably stopped working at some point. Fixing it, luckily, is just as easy as using it. You don’t even need to get up from your computer to get any rubbing alcohol, you already have everything you need right in front of you.
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March 11, 2009

Sites to Follow for Discount OS X Software

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by Dee-Ann LeBlanc

There are three major sites that OS X users in the know keep a close eye on: MacHeist, MacUpdate Promo, and MacZOT. These three sites offer discounts on software written by independent developers, and can save you a ton of money on a lot of excellent software.
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March 8, 2009

How to Show the Date and Time on Your Mac’s Menu Bar

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by Dee-Ann LeBlanc

Are you one of those people who never seems to know what day it is? On OS X it’s easy to see the time at a glance by looking to the upper right of your menu bar.

Adding just the day of the week is simple enough. In the upper left of your menu bar, click the Apple, then click “System Preferences.” In the “System” section of the “System Preferences” window, click “Date & Time,” then in the “Date & Time” dialog box, click “Clock.” There, you can check the “Show the day of the week” checkbox.
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March 7, 2009

How to Copy Data Files From Your Mac to Your iPhone

Filed under: applications,digital media,file transfer,Macintosh,mobile computing — Tags: , , , — admin @ 9:00 am

by Davis Strom

If you have an iPhone, one of your frustrations is that you don’t easily have any way to make copies of your files from your Mac desktop and view them. You can use iTunes to move videos, photos and music files, but anything else is an issue.

It is an odd omission: Any iPod since the very early days has the ability to act as an USB-connected hard drive and you can drag and drop files to it—as long as you have enough room on your iPod, that is. Luckily, there is a solution – actually, several solutions. You’ll need to download an app for your iPhone, and we found many of them that claim to offer this feature. Sadly, none of them allows this simple configuration of being able to plug your iPhone into your computer via USB. But since the iPhone is chock full of connectivity, there are several ways to skin the file transfer cat. We tested a variety of apps that can connect in between your desktop and iPhone in some interesting, and perhaps too clever, ways.
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