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If you need to change the quote level in a message from Mail.app use the Command and Option keys. To lower the quote level press Option-Command-’ (thats the apostrophe). To raise the level just use Command - ‘ As Mac tips.org says a good way to remember this is to “remember that you are simply pressing Command and the button you use to signify quotes in general text.”

I have found another great tip for you iPhone users over at Mac OSX Hints. The author tells us how we can create small web apps tracing times such as a gas mileage log or as one commenter stated a Blood Glucose Reading chart.

Since I’ve had my iPhone, I’ve found a few things that I wish I could do with it. I wished that I had a fuel-economy tracker app for my car, an expense tracker for work-expenses and others. I knew I could’ve set-up a custom web-page backed with a database, but it just seemed that there should be an easier way.
It seems Google thought so too, as they’ve just released a powerful new Forms extension to their Google Docs app, Spreadsheets. Using Forms, you can essentially create a survey or email-based input form for a spreadsheet you’ve created. This has great implications for those needing to create ad-hoc surveys for your work-mates, friends, family and more. However, there’s nothing stopping you from inviting only yourself to the form.
To get started, go to Google Docs (sign-up if necessary), create a new spreadsheet. If you want, you can add a few columns with a header row to make things a little easier in the next step. Then, go to Share and invite yourself with the ‘to fill out a form’ option. You’ll then be able to configure your form. Here you can add or delete fields, re-order them, and set each field to ‘text,’ ‘paragraph-text,’ ‘multiple-choice,’ ‘checkboxes,’ or ‘choose from a list’ (with the choices, where applicable). You can also set defaults in some cases, and add simple instructions.
You’ll receive an email with the form embedded, but there’s also a link to a web page version of the same form. On your iPhone, click this link from your email (or import this link via Safari). Once it is open in Safari, scale it to fit better on the screen, then press the + at the bottom of the screen and add the page to your home screen.
Now, whenever I fill my tank or make a business expense, I simply press the button on my iPhone, then fill in the form, and press Submit. All results appear in my spreadsheet. It appends a new row for each submission. I’ve also set up the spreadsheet to automatically take averages, or compute other figures from the submitted data. You just need to put these work cells at the top of your sheet, and refer to your data with deep-reaching cell-ranges like $C$4:$C$999, for example, so that the range will ’see’ new data as it comes in.

As a side note you will need to set this up on a computer before you can use it on the iPhone.

Over 35 dock designs and counting, an app that automatically replaces the dock design with whichever you choose, idea from digg, created by a digger, designs submitted by diggers. (Disclaimer: I am not the owner of this site, I just love it)

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If you are a preview fan then you will find this tip from UsingMac.com very useful. They go over step by step how to use preview to extract an item. I really like that they used a Mac add to show you how to do this.

I found this great tip over at Mac OSX Hints for iphone users.

I have a laptop and use an external hard drive for my iTunes library. This system works well for me, except sometimes I found myself frustrated that I couldn’t update my contacts and calendars on my iPhone while I was on the go. When I’m away from the external hard drive, iTunes complains.
I recently discovered that if my iPhone is charging over USB, using the Sync system menu (chasing arrows in the upper right corner of the screen) on 10.5 syncs my iPhone to iCal and Address Book. This is great! Now I don’t have to launch iTunes unless I want to sync media.

I am not sure about you, when I use Spotlight to launch my applications I am getting Duplicates from My Time Machine Drive as well as my Super-duper Cloned Drive. This only happened when my MacBook is connected to the external Dives I use for this, but it is still very frustrating. To make sure This does not happen to me I followed the instructions I found over at A New Mac Tip Every Day.

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Choose Spotlight.
3. Click on the Privacy tab.
4. Click on the “+”.
5. Navigate to your backup disk and find the folder called “Backups.backupdb”.
6. Click “Choose”.
7. That’s it. The backup should now be excluded from Spotlight searches.

You can do the same for any location that you don’t want Spotlight to index.

Have you every wanted to arrange the Menu Bar items the way you want not the way Mr. Jobs wants them. Its almost as easy as changing the items on the Dock. All you need to go is Command (Apple key for the newer users) + click on the Menu bar item and Drag it where you want it.

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I have found a nice little piece if software that will allow you to manage Multiple iWeb sites via the ability to have more than one domain file. There have been a few different applications that have done this but they are overpriced in my option. The application I am presenting to you today is iWebSites. The best part is it is Donation ware. (Please if you like the software make a donation to the starving programmers who made this nice piece of software) The way it works is it allows you to open each site as a different .domain file which is how iWeb stores your sites.

Thanks to Cool OSX Apps for the link to the software

Give this a shot and let us know how it works for you.

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