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Create Smart Collections in Font Book 27 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
You remember Font Book, right? That's the built-in app that OS X offers for organizing and previewing fonts. In Mountain Lion, it gained a feature to make organization a little simpler: Smart Collecti...
Share contacts from your Mac via iMessage or AirDrop 26 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
OS X's built-in Contacts app has long offered an option to share a contact's details via email. But OS X Mountain Lion added two additional options. With a contact selected, click on the Send To arro...
Rearrange the Finder's sidebar sections via drag and drop 24 Aug 2013 | 12:18 am
Rearranging the sections in the sidebar of Finder windows used to be a beast. That hasn't been the case since the introduction of Mountain Lion. You can drag and drop sections like Favorites, Devices...
Set up a Minecraft server 22 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
Here’s a recipe for setting up Minecraft server on OS X. Since I don’t fully trust the server not to have some security hole, I want it to run as user nobody so it doesn’t have a lot of permissions. A...
Find devices connected to your AirPort base station without AirPort Utility 5.6 21 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
AirPort Utility 5.6 could show you all the devices connected to your AirPort base station—wired and wireless alike. AirPort Utility 6.x, however, only lists devices connected to your base station over...
Unlock an iOS device with a Bluetooth keyboard 19 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
When you lock your iPhone or iPad with a passcode, the general process for using your device is that you hit the sleep/wake button or the Home button, slide to unlock, and then tap in your passcode. B...
Add full screen mode support to apps lacking it 16 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Some applications will never get full screen support. Here's a workaround. 1. Install SIMBL, http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php. 2. Install Maximizer, http://chpwn.com/apps/maximizer.ht...
Tell Siri who's who: "Jason Snell is my boss" 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
You know all the different tasks Siri can help you accomplish with your recent iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. But perhaps you didn't realize you can teach Siri to help you save even more time when use t...
Hide TextEdit's ruler by default 13 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
If, like me, you wish that TextEdit did not show its ruler by default, this hint is for you. TextEdit displays the ruler by default when creating or opening rich text documents. I find the ruler visu...
Access dozens of awesome high-res screen saver images on your Mac for desktop backgrounds 12 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
As first pointed out by OS X Daily, Mountain Lion's built-in screen savers cycle through a couple dozen awesome photos, across several categories, with images of space, nature, and more. The images ar...
