August 28, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Apple, How to, Tips
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For those of you who are familiar with windows would tried to right click eventually but it would turn out to be a left click on Mac. If you bought a new mac, i suggest that you follow these steps to make your mac “Right clickable”.
To right click on any Mac without changing any configuration:
- Click “crtl+Mouse button”
- A right click menu should pop up
To enable right click on an Apple desktop with an Apple mouse connected:
- Go to “System Preferences”
- Click “Keyboard & Mouse” as you see in the screenshot below
- Click the “Mouse” tab
- A picture of the mouse will show up. Click the drop down menu on the right hand side and select “Secondary Button”
- Now whenever you click on the right hand side of the mouse, a right click menu will appear
To enable right click on newer Apple laptops:
- Go to “System Preferences”
- Click “Keyboard & Mouse”
- Click the “Trackpad” tab
- Click the checkbox “For secondary clicks, place two fingers on the trackpad then click the button” (See screenshot below)
- Now whenever you have two fingers on the trackpad and click the mouse button, a right click menu will appear
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August 28, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Apple, Hardware, How to, Tips
This is a tutorial for disabling apple remote control. This is a problem mainly if you have two macs and you want to control the pause, play and adjust volume on one mac and not to be in conflict with the other.
To disable the remote control:
- Open “System Prefences”
- Click “Security”
- Check the box “Disable remote control infrared receiver”
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August 28, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Apple, Software
Mailplane is an application that combines Gmail and your Mac together. It is essentially Mail.app for your Gmail account. It allows all of the functionality of regular Gmail, but adds a lot more to make our life’s much easier.
You can compose, save and send email like you do in a regular browser, but the buttons on the application allow you to compose, send, browse, reply, forward, and Mailplane even includes all of Gmail’s shortcuts that are available. Sending pictures is much faster with drag-and-drop functionality (so you drag the picture on to the screen) and a media browser (which basically contains all the media such as videos, pictures and so on). Mailplane also combines into your contacts from Address Book. The difference between Mailplane and a regular desktop mail client is that Mailplane doesn’t download all your emails, it leaves them on Gmail’s servers.
Not to mention Google Mail’s superb SPAM protection, endless storage and global access - and the friendliness of your Mac.
Features
More and more useful applications are web applications. With some good reasons:
- They can be accessed from everywhere. More and more people use several computers at once, e.g. work, home, internet cafe, etc.
- Collaboration is built in.
- Updates are performed centrally, no need to install new desktop releases.
- Data is stored on the server, which is often much more secure than doing it locally.
- Mac users can use webapps, too! In the old days most applications were for “Windows” only.
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August 27, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Cool Links, Online
Every day I read these humorous web comics. They can be really funny at times =). A new one is written about once a day by one of the writers: Rob, Matt, Dave, and Kris. I prefer Rob’s comics the most as they include fine drawings and nicely written comedy. The other writers are good too though.
I find this one quite good: (its by Rob)
You can read these comics at Cyanide and Happiness
There’s also flash animations of these characters, they are also very funny =D
You can see them at Explosm Movies
Highly recommended.
Enjoy.
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