For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Undo Closed Tabs and Windows in Safari

Quick Tip #124

If you've ever accidentally closed a tab or window in Safari and wanted to know how to get it back again, this week's tip tells you how.

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Running Time: 2:04

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Send Files As Attachments Using Automator

Quick Tip #123

If you'd like to be able to right-click any Finder item and send it as an attachment to a new Mail message, this week's tip tells you how to create your own "Send As Attachment" service using Automator.

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Running Time: 2:50

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Rescue Old Clip Art Using Preview

Quick Tip #122

Do you have favorite clip art images from your Windows days, but don't know how to rescue them from your old Word docs? This week's quick tip offers a way to save those images to your Mac using Preview.

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Running Time: 2:44

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Safer Browsing with OpenDNS

Quick Tip #121

Looking for an easy way to determine if a website is legit? This week's tip tells how to use OpenDNS to help secure your Mac at home.

The OpenDNS numbers to use are:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Read more here: http://www.opendns.com/

What is DNS?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

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Running Time: 3:30

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Sort Apps by Genre

Quick Tip #120

Finding it difficult to locate the app you've been wanting to load onto your iDevice? Give the iTunes Genres View a try to help make locating an app just a little bit easier.

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Running Time: 2:27

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Archiving Old Contacts

Quick Tip #119

Do you have some contacts that you'd like to remove from Address Book but maybe aren't quite ready to delete altogether? You can Archive them instead. This week's tip tells you how.

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Running Time: 1:56

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - "Timeline" Editing in iMovie '11

Quick Tip #118

This week's tip tells you how to turn on a couple new features that iMovie '11 added to help iMovie HD fans feel more at home: Horizontal Clip Views and Detailed Audio Waveforms.

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Running Time: 2:36

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Reply to Mail Messages Using iChat

Quick Tip #117

If you use both Apple Mail and iChat, there's a quick way to reply to email messages using iChat, and this week's tip tells you how.

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Running Time: 1:55

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Going Places in the Finder

Quick Tip #116

This week's Quick Tip offers up another selection of handy keystrokes to know for going places in the Finder.

Finder Keyboard Commands for Jumping to:
Applications - ⇧⌘A
Utilities - ⇧⌘U
Documents - ⇧⌘O
Desktop - ⇧⌘D
Home - ⇧⌘H
Computer - ⇧⌘C
iDisk - ⇧⌘I
Network - ⇧⌘K

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Running Time: 2:25

FMEO Quick Tips are Moving to a New Home!

FMEO Quick Tips are on the move ... to Mondays!

Watch your feeds for our next Quick Tip that's headed your way this Monday, October 18th.

Talk to you then!

Mike

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - How To: Turn Off Ping

Quick Tip #115

Did you give Apple's new Ping a good run-through, decided it's not for you, but can't figure out how to turn it off? This week's tip tells you how.

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Running Time: 1:44

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Send PDFs to iBooks

Quick Tip #114

Learn how to send documents, emails, or web pages from any application directly to your Books library within iTunes so you can sync them to your iBooks app later.

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Running Time: 3:05

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Reclaim Space in Sparse Bundles

Quick Tip #113

Do you use sparse bundle disk images on your Mac and wish there was a way to reclaim unused space when files are removed from the image? This week's tip from FMEO listener Raymond tells you how.

From the Terminal:

hdiutil compact {name and location of sparse bundle image}

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Running Time: 2:25

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Top 10 Favorite Quick Tips

With no regular episode of For Mac Eyes Only this week, I thought it'd be fun to take a look back at my Top 10 Favorite Episodes of For Mac Eyes Only's Quick Tip Weekly

1. Lock the screen when away (#3, 03/21/08)

2. Quick Look multiple files at once (#8, 03/25/08)

3. Birthdays in iCal (#14, 06/06/08)

4. Put Applications on the Dock (#21, 08/01/08)

5. Spotlight as App Launcher (#22, 08/08/08)

6. Command-Tab tricks (#30, 10/17/08)

7. Eject Stuck optical discs (#46, 02/27/09)

8. Open files from Quick Look (#57, 06/05/09)

9. Using Hot Corners (#70, 09/11/09)

10. Super Tip! Keyboard Sleep, Restart, and Shutdown (#82, 12/04/09) & Mac Startup Keys (#83, 12/11/09):

Sleep - ⌥⌘⏏

Restart - ⌃⌘⏏

Shut Down - ⌃⌥⌘⏏

Display Shut Down Dialog - ⌃⏏

From the Finder

Log Out - ⇧⌘Q

Log Out Immediately - ⌥⇧⌘Q

Startup keys to know while booting your Mac

Hold these keys down during startup:

Option (⌥) - Starts the Startup Manager

C - Boot from a CD or DVD

D - Starts the Apple Hardware Test from Install DVD 1 (Intel Only)

⏏, F12 or Mouse Button - Ejects the optical disc

T - Starts your Mac in FireWire Target Disk mode.

Option, Command, P, R (⌥⌘PR) - Resets NVRAM or PRAM

Shift (⇧) - Starts in Safe Boot mode

⌘V - Starts in Verbose mode

⌘S - Starts in Single-User mode

N or ⌥N - Start from a NetBoot Server


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Running Time: 30:52

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Put iTunes 10 Buttons Back Where They Belong

Quick Tip #112

Not sure you care for the new button placement at the top of the iTunes 10 window? No problem! This week's Quick Tip tells you how to help Apple stick to OS X's interface guidelines.

To Move Buttons Back to the Title Bar:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean YES

To Move Buttons to the "New" Position:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean NO

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Running Time: 1:54

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Display Alternatives First in Dictionary

Quick Tip #111

Prefer to find synonyms for words rather than definitions? The Dictionary app can be configured to present alternatives first and this week's tip tells you how.

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Running Time: 2:21

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Quick Look Archives On Your Mac

Quick Tip #110

Frustrated that OS X won't let you use Quick Look on Zip files and other archives on your Mac and wonder if there's a way to do it? This week's tip tells you how.

> The BetterZip Quick Look Generator

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Running Time: 2:01

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - Explore Your Menu Bar Options

Quick Tip #109

Want to get more information from your menu bar icons than what a simple click provides? This week's tip from FMEO listener Raymond tells you how.

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Running Time: 1:37

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - DOCX Files on the Mac, Part II: Using Automator

Quick Tip #108

This week's tip offers a one-step method to convert DOCX files on your Snow Leopard running Mac by creating a simple Automator Service.

The Run Shell Script in Automator's workflow:

textutil -convert doc "$@"

What your final Automator Service should look like:

The final Automator Service

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Running Time: 3:20

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - .DOCX Files on the Mac, Part I

Quick Tip #107

Looking for a way to convert .DOCX files on your Mac? This week's tip gives you two easy ways to do it on your Leopard or Snow Leopard running Mac.

To convert using TextUtil from Terminal:

textutil -convert doc {file to convert}

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Running Time: 2:51