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How to permanently delete a Facebook account

Jules — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:49:13 +0000

As I write this, a gaping security flaw has been found in Facebook that allows users to spy upon their Friends’ chats. The flaw looks like it’s in the process of being fixed, but this is just the latest in a long line of problems with the social networking service’s privacy. The security hole in the chat [...]

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How to permanently delete a Facebook account

How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 9

Jules — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:20:09 +0000

Apple released iTunes 9 yesterday and along with a bevy of new features, it also put the Genre column back into browser view — and the old trick for hiding it doesn’t work. Fortunately, Apple has evidently listened to our cries of despair and there is now an easier way to disable Genres. Just go [...]

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How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 9

Use a three-finger trackpad swipe to scroll to the top & bottom of a page in Firefox

Jules — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:24:44 +0000

Here’s another Firefox I discovered the other day. On a MacBook with a multi-touch trackpad, you can use a three finger up/down swipe to move instantly to the top/bottom of a web page. It doesn’t work in Safari, sadly. Originally published at Geek GuidesUse a three-finger trackpad swipe to scroll to the top & bottom [...]

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Use a three-finger trackpad swipe to scroll to the top & bottom of a page in Firefox

How to change the ‘Today’ highlight colour in iCal

Jules — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:38:40 +0000

I love Mac OS X iCal, but there’s one thing that bugs me — the pale blue highlight that denotes ‘Today’ in the month view is all but invisible. There’s no way to tweak this colour in iCal and the best the internet could suggest was to tilt the monitor back a bit… In fact, [...]

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How to change the ‘Today’ highlight colour in iCal

Keyboard shortcuts for rating iTunes songs

Jules — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:09:04 +0000

I’m on the hunt for a good Mac to-do list/GTD manager and while I’ve yet to settle on one of the multitude that are available, the search did lead me to a handy utility I’ve been looking for for ages. It’s called I Love Stars and it puts an iTunes star rating tool in the [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts for rating iTunes songs

How to upgrade a Mac OS Time Machine drive

Jules — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:20:57 +0000

Since it’s wholly automatic and completely transparent, it’s silly not to make use of the Mac OS Time Machine utility — as long as you’ve got a large enough external drive for it to work with, of course. I’ve been using it with a 320Gb Seagate FreeAgent Pro external USB drive, but this only gave [...]

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How to upgrade a Mac OS Time Machine drive

How to swap left and right speaker output in Mac OS X

Jules — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:19:41 +0000

My MacBook is set up as a desktop computer — it’s plugged into a Dell 22in LCD monitor (E228WFP) and sits on a fabulous Rain Design mStand so that I can use its screen as a second monitor. I have a pair of Logitech speakers plugged into the MacBook’s headphone socket, but since the MacBook [...]

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How to swap left and right speaker output in Mac OS X

How to make an external monitor the main display on a MacBook

Jules — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:43:28 +0000

Running a dual-monitor set-upon a MacBook is easy enough — just plug in the monitor and go to System Preferences > Displays to configure it. The first thing you’l need to do is click the Arrangment button and drag the external monitor so that it’s position is Displays matches that on your desk — so [...]

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How to make an external monitor the main display on a MacBook

How to sync an iPhone with two computers

Jules — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:11:45 +0000

Unless you’re using over-the-air Microsoft Exchange syncing with your iPhone (via Google Mobile Sync, NuevaSync or a corporate Exchange server), you’re probably keeping its contact and calendar information in sync with Outlook or iCal using iTunes. This works well enough, but what if your calendar and contact data is stored one computer (at the office, [...]

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How to sync an iPhone with two computers

Where does iTunes keep its iPhone backups?

Jules — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:57:51 +0000

Whenever an iPhone is synchronised with iTunes, iTunes makes a backup of (most of) the iPhone’s data. You can view the iTunes’ backup history by going to Preferences > Devices. iTunes maintains some kind of history for successive backups, but I have no idea of the underlying logic. You would imagine that three or four [...]

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Where does iTunes keep its iPhone backups?

Remote Desktop made easy with CrossLoop

Jules — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:00:45 +0000

Setting up remote Desktop access is usually something you wish you’d done just after you realise you need to take control of a remote computer – like when you’re called upon to fix a distant friend or family member’s PC, for example. Taking control of a remote computer is straightforward if you can get physical [...]

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Remote Desktop made easy with CrossLoop

How to enable hibernate mode on a Mac

Jules — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:17:12 +0000

Unlike Windows, Mac OS doesn’t offer a hibernate or deep sleep mode – selecting Sleep from the Apple menu just puts a Mac into a low-power state (suspend to RAM) that, while quick to resume, still keeps the contents of memory in memory. This isn’t much of a problem on a desktop Mac that’s plugged [...]

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How to enable hibernate mode on a Mac

How to make the Home & End keys on a Mac keyboard work like Home & End keys

Jules — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:10:56 +0000

When you press the cursor keys, modified cursor keys (with [Shift], [Ctrl], and so on) or [Home] and [End] keys on a Windows PC, the on-screen cursor reacts in a consistent way when it’s in a block of text, no matter what application you’re using. Its behaviour is controlled at operating system level rather than [...]

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How to make the Home & End keys on a Mac keyboard work like Home & End keys

How to sync Google Contacts and Calendar with the iPhone using Google Mobile Sync

Jules — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:24:55 +0000

Google now offers its own ExchangeSync service for smartphones called Google Sync for Mobile, which means you now now automatically synchronise your Google Account data with your handheld over Wi-Fi or a mobile data connection. If you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch owner, this means you can now synchronise your Google Calendar and Contacts data [...]

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How to sync Google Contacts and Calendar with the iPhone using Google Mobile Sync

How to sync multiple iPhone calendars with Google

Jules — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:10:10 +0000

If you’ve recently set-up Google Mobile Sync to synchronise your Calendar and Contacts with your iPhone over-the-air, you may have noticed that only one Google Calendar is being synced. It is possible to set-up Google Mobile Sync to sync up to five calendars, though (the maximum the iPhone supports) – you just need to make [...]

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How to sync multiple iPhone calendars with Google

Backup your iPhone contacts to Google with iTunes

Jules — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:34:10 +0000

If you want to use Google Mobile Sync to keep your iPhone synchronised with your Google Calendar and Contacts, you’ll have to backup any existing contacts on your iPhone first, otherwise Google Sync will delete them. Fortunately, there is an easy way to do this and you can use iTunes to upload your contacts to [...]

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Backup your iPhone contacts to Google with iTunes

How to display a Mac OS character map

Jules — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:56:35 +0000

Typing a character that doesn’t have its own key on the keyboard is easy in Windows – you can just use the Windows Character Map tool. Mac OS doesn’t have a similar tool – or rather, it doesn’t have one that’s so easily accessible. There are a few options for quickly inserting symbols like ®, [...]

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How to display a Mac OS character map

How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 8 for Windows and Mac OS

Jules — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:55:13 +0000

iTunes 7 has a Preferences option to turn of the Genre column in the main window, iTunes 8 does not. This is very frustrating. I’m not in the least bit interested in seeing what genres are in my music library, and the Genre pane takes space away from the far more useful Artists and Albums [...]

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How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 8 for Windows and Mac OS

How to type a hash (#) on a Mac UK keyboard

Jules — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:06:46 +0000

Mac keyboards don’t have a # (‘hash’ for the UK, or ‘pound’ if you’re American) key, which is a bit of a problem when you want to type a # symbol. The lack of a dedicated key doesn’t mean you can’t type the symbol, though – just type [Alt] + [3] or [⌥] + [3] [...]

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How to type a hash (#) on a Mac UK keyboard