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Use QuickBoot to restart with Windows and Boot Camp

Jules — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:34:36 +0000

QuickBoot is a free utility that fixes that annoying problem of forgetting to hold down the Alt key when you restart your Mac to boot into Windows via Boot Camp. It sits in the menu bar and let’s you restart your Mac and boot into Windows with a mouse click. The utility is a bit [...]

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Use QuickBoot to restart with Windows and Boot Camp

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

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

Safari 4′s hidden preferences

Jules — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:09:26 +0000

The WordPress 2.7 bug makes the Safari 4 beta useless to me, but if you’re a Safari fan who wants to stick with it, but don’t care for the cosmetic changes, head to the Random Genius blog. It has a whole list of hidden preferences for Apple’s new web browser, including one to put the [...]

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Safari 4′s hidden preferences

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?