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Paranoid? Quickly lock your Mac’s screen while staying logged in

Users coming from the Windows world may be used to pressing the Window+L keys to instantly lock their screens. In Mac land, you can (almost) do the same. Whether you have sensitive information on your computer or you’re just plain paranoid…

Paranoid? Quickly lock your Mac\'s screen while staying logged in
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Pano: Beautiful panoramic photos made easy on your iPhone

If you like to take snapshots on your iPhone’s built-in camera, Pano is a fun and useful application that seamlessly stitches a series of photos together into a single wide panoramic image. Have you ever wanted to take a photo of a large setting…

Pano: Beautiful panoramic photos made easy on your iPhone
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Spotlight trouble? Re-index your entire hard drive for search

Spotlight allows you to search the files and folders on your Mac instantaneously. Like any computer database, however, it can become corrupt and inaccurate over time. No problem — it’s an easy fix. To give you an example of when Spotlight might…

Spotlight trouble? Re-index your entire hard drive for search
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Hide running app icons in the Dock with drag & drop Dock Dodger

Dock space is valuable, especially when you’ve got a lot going on at once. With the simple drag and drop interface of FoggyNoggin Software’s Dock Dodger, you can take back control of your Dock and hide unwanted icons even when the app is running…

Hide running app icons in the Dock with drag & drop Dock Dodger
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Fix your Mac’s spotty wireless connection after waking from sleep

Occasionally your Mac may decide it doesn’t want to connect to your wireless network via AirPort after you wake it from sleep. Other devices connect fine, so your router’s not the problem… maybe starting over can help. Over the past few…

Fix your Mac\'s spotty wireless connection after waking from sleep
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Workaround for sorting music on your iPod by Date Added

As great as the iPod is, it boggles my mind why Apple doesn’t include a Date Added view to sort music like you can in iTunes. If you’re in the same boat, here’s how you can create the feature yourself. Most people have ever-changing musical…

Workaround for sorting music on your iPod by Date Added
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21 Apple Safari internet browsing tips and productivity boosters

Others may disagree, but I believe Apple’s Safari is the best internet browser available for the Mac. For starters, it’s blazing fast and has a great minimalist user interface. With this list of 21 Safari tips & productivity boosters, you can take…

21 Apple Safari internet browsing tips and productivity boosters
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Prepare for Snow Leopard by calibrating your LCD to gamma 2.2

One of the reported changes coming in Apple’s upcoming version of Mac OS X is the operating system’s default display gamma setting. It will literally change the way you see your Mac, so why not get started now? To provide some background…

Prepare for Snow Leopard by calibrating your LCD to gamma 2.2
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Eltima Software: Restore lost FLA projects and optimize SWF files

Web designers and new media professionals who work with Adobe’s Flash multimedia platform would be doing themselves a huge favor by checking out the high quality tools provided by Eltima Software. Eltima Software offers two extremely…

Eltima Software: Restore lost FLA projects and optimize SWF files
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Organize your iPhoto library by batch changing titles and dates

Most people (myself included) are guilty of connecting their digital camera to their Mac, quickly throwing the most recently taken images into iPhoto, and then going on their merry way. As easy as that is in the moment, it will come back to bite…

Organize your iPhoto library by batch changing titles and dates
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Watch & download high definition YouTube videos on your Mac

YouTube, the world’s most popular video-sharing website, has recently introduced the ability to upload 720p high definition videos. Here’s how you can view and — even better — download them to keep on your Mac. Traditionally, the video quality…

Watch & download high definition YouTube videos on your Mac
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12/21/08: Top 5 Apple news stories & headlines of the week

The sky fell this week. Christmas was cancelled by Apple and apparently Steve Jobs is getting ousted a second time… according to the out-of-control rumor mongerers, at least. Reality is a crazy thing, though. Why report the truth when you…

12/21/08: Top 5 Apple news stories & headlines of the week
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