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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

06 Jul 2010
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Finer Things Business
If you enjoy Finer Things in Mac, might you have a moment to recommend us to Tumblr’s Tech Directory?
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iTunes gets smart playlist rating bug fix

06 Jul 2010
David Chartier
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Apple apps, iTunes, playlists, submission
The latest version of iTunes has an improvement that has made me tremendously happy. Until iTunes 9.2, if you had a smart playlist
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“Play Next in iTunes DJ” no longer interrupts a playing song

02 Jul 2010
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iTunes, iTunes DJ
If you’re already listening to a track in iTunes from your library or from a particular playlist, you can right-click and use the
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01 Jul 2010
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login forms, MobileMe, UI
From Finer Things in Web: If you mis-enter credentials in the login form at Apple’s MobileMe site, it will shake and wipe out the
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30 Jun 2010
David Chartier
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iTunes, LaunchBar, music, productivity
LaunchBar, a “productivity utility” from Objective Development, automatically creates “Best Of” lists from your
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Safari’s download window accepts dragged and pasted links

29 Jun 2010
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Apple apps, submission
Safari’s download window will automatically start downloading urls dragged into it as well as ones that are pasted in.
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27 Jun 2010
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Acorn, image editors
Flying Meat Software’s Acorn image editor has smart cropping features peppered throughout. The crop tool can sniff out white
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Preview can import directly from iPad, iPhone, others

18 May 2010
David Chartier
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Apple apps, images, import, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, photos, Preview
For some time, Preview’s File menu has offered an “Import from…” option that should recognize most devices that
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Snow Leopard Text to Speech pronounces “OS Ten”

13 May 2010
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Mac polish, OS X Snow Leopard, polish, text-to-speech
Apple’s Text to Speech in 10.6 Snow Leopard—and likely older versions of OS X—correctly pronounces ”OS X” as
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