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Finer Things in Mac

All things Mac, apps, tips, tricks, and polish that help you work and play better on the Mac.

Use Photo Stream instead of emailing photos to yourself

Finer News: Updates to RSS feeds, main sections

Tips for changing brightness on MacBook, external displays

iTunes 11 added a ‘Home Videos’ category

Tweetbot for Mac can have multiple columns, windows for just about anything you want

Finer Things in Mac

iTunes 11 shows more details about what’s stored on your iPhone, iPad

19 Feb 2013
David Chartier
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device management, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, iTunes 11
If you plug your iPhone or iPad into iTunes and mouse over the colored storage bar at the bottom of the device details page,
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Quickly create new contacts from Mail and add context

18 Feb 2013
David Chartier
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Contacts, data detectors, Mail
When viewing a message in Mail, you can hove over a name and address to reveal a little ‘Data Detector’ icon. Clicking this
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Pixelmator’s Effects Browser shows live previews of what effects can do to your images

01 Feb 2013
David Chartier
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photography, Pixelmator
If you open Pixemator‘s Effects Browser (⌘-3 or View > Show Effects), you can view a live preview of what each effect can do by
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Napkin can share files on iCloud

29 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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file sharing, iCloud, Napkin, social media
Napkin, the new visual communication utility for Mac, can upload and share files over a number of services—one of them is iCloud. Once
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Safari: Drag and drop to upload just about any file

28 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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drag and drop, Finder, Safari
Some sites like WordPress and Google+ are adding the ability to drag and drop files to upload them. But if you use Safari, you can drag
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An AppleScript to properly export images from Evernote

25 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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AppleScript, Evernote, export
Evernote is a great tool, but its export abilities leave quite a bit to be desired, especially when it comes to attachments like
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Create new folders from selected files

14 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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file management, Finder, OS X Mountain Lion, shortcuts
A quick way to toss a bunch of files and folders into a new folder is to select them and use ⌃-⌘-N (Finder > New Folder with
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Use gestures and keyboard shortcuts for Tab View in Safari 6

09 Jan 2013
Chris De Jabet
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gestures, Safari, shortcuts, tabs
When browsing in Safari 6 on Mountain Lion, you can use a new view called Tab View to visually explore all your open tabs. You can
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Hide the Finder’s sidebar, toolbar, or both

08 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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clutter, Command key, Finder, Option key, shortcuts
You can trim your Finder window to save space and reduce clutter, depending on your workflow. ⌘-⌥-S (View > Hide Sidebar) will hide the
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