Parent Folder allows you to have a “one folder up” button in the Finder just like the one in Windows Explorer
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I was not able to write anything better than the web site states its self. Here is the excerpt from the home page.
RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension and file type settings to choose the application when opening a file in …
Internet blogger and x-Microsoft employee Robert Scoble has bought and changed over to the Macbook Pro. As part of his switch he asked his over 2,000 twitter followers to suggest some must have mac applications. Follow the link to his blog Scobleizer.com for the full list and comments. Below is a short excerpt form his posting.
Every New Mac User should be ready to try some new applications to make life easier. Quicksilver is where you really need to start. On the front end it is a Launcher application. There is yet be be anything to compare on the windows side and it would be an insult to the program to try. As you get into Quicksilver you will see that it can do so so so much more than launch applications. You can add calendar …
On the Mac there is no “My Computer” Button by default. But as Blogger Dave Taylor describes you can make one for yourself if you really miss it. See his post on the matter below.
Do you need more room on your hard drive?
Do you need to have every language under the sun saved on your mac?
Well i do need more room and don’t want to know have any other language, other than English, on my mac.
There is an application that is open source and free that can help you to get this done. Its called Monolingual. It will give you a GUI that helps you removing the languages that you don’t need. When you …
The trick to being a fast and productive on a Mac is the keyboard short cuts. This is something worth checking out, go to the Systems Preferences pane in the apple menu. Select the keyboard and mouse area, them to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. You will find a list of the shortcuts available to you. You should look this list over. Below I have given a short list of shortcuts proven to help keep your hands off the keyboard.
While reading some of the bloggs today i cam across this tip for you. Use your Web hosting companys hard drive as an off-site backup stroage center. http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/02/backup-your-mac-to-dreamhost/
I have a few other ideas about this but will post them seperatly.
UPDATE:
Today on Lifehacker.com they did a reviw of some very good (and some free) back up utilites. This is very worthy of a look.
Lifehacker Post
The last 2 episodes of the iLifezone Podcast are geared just for switchers. They went out of their way to give us a lot of good tips and tricks. They really tried to put it in the context of a Windows user coming to the Mac. Below is the show notes from the podcasts taken straight from the iLifezone web site. To Subscribe to the Rss feed of the iLifezone please head toei website and use the link. The …
Along with the announcement of the new MacPros today, Apple dropped the prices of their displays (monitors). The 20 inch will cost you $100.00 less now price at $599.00. The 23 inch has also been dropped by $100.00 and is selling for $899.00. The biggest drop was on the 30 inch Cinema HD display, they gave it a price of $1,799.00 which is $200.00 less. They are offering free shipping on all the displays. For all the specs …
