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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

Move windows around on a Mac with keyboard shortcuts and SizeUp

Jules — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:45:22 +0000

Some utilities fill their niche so well that they quickly become an indispensable part of your daily computer use and SizeUp is one program that falls into that category for me. The concept is simple enough — this tiny program (4.1Mb) lets you resize and position windows on the Mac OS Desktop using keyboard shortcuts [...]

Originally published at Geek Guides

Move windows around on a Mac with keyboard shortcuts and SizeUp

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 [...]

Originally published at Geek Guides

Keyboard shortcuts for rating iTunes songs

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