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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

Why your MacBook runs like crap

Jules — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:40:57 +0000

I use a MacBook Pro as my my main computer, plugged into a desktop set-up. Like any right-thinking geek with such an arrangement, I removed the laptop’s battery to prevent it suffering from being charged all the time — the MacBook Pro is never used away from mains power and can’t be accidentally unplugged. I [...]

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Why your MacBook runs like crap

Custom keyboard shortcuts in Firefox for Mac OS are broken

Jules — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:11:16 +0000

I complained at length about keyboard shortcut inconsistencies in Mac OS X the other day — an OS that’s supposedly ultra-consistent — but it appears that the Apple isn’t wholly to blame. I singled out Firefox and NeoOffice as particular offenders (largely because as a new-ish Mac user, they’re the two apps I use the [...]

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Custom keyboard shortcuts in Firefox for Mac OS are broken

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 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