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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

OS X uses original Macintosh release date for file placeholders

26 Nov 2012
David Chartier
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Finder, OS X
When you create a new file or duplicate an existing file, OS X uses “January 24, 1984″ as a placeholder for the
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How to show birthdays in Calendar but shut off audio alerts

02 Nov 2012
David Chartier
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birthdays, Calendar, Facebook
You can leave the birthday calendar option enabled in Mountain Lion’s Calendar (previously iCal) but shut off the audio alerts
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Link your contacts with Facebook to get auto-updated details, clean up your address book

29 Oct 2012
David Chartier
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Contacts, Facebook, OS X Mountain Lion, sync
Contacts (previously Address Book) has long allowed you to select one or more cards and choose Card > Merge Selected Cards to help you
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Help menu in Mountain Lion can search both visible and invisible features

18 Oct 2012
David Chartier
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Option key, Preview, shortcuts
Since OS X Leopard in 2007, the default Help menu in virtually all apps has contained a search box for tracking down the name of a menu
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Mountain Lion has iOS-like dictation, easy shortcut

15 Oct 2012
David Chartier
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dictation, OS X Mountain Lion, shortcuts
OS X has long had text-to-speech features, but Apple added dictation in Mountain Lion with, of course, an obvious influence from iOS.
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Using Due’s natural date parser for time conversion

25 Sep 2012
David Chartier
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alerts, Due, iPad apps, iPhone apps, Mac apps
From the official blog of Due, a great Mac and iOS alarm app with some clever features like reminders that can go off every minute
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Messages can now use your phone number

19 Sep 2012
David Chartier
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iMessage, Messages, OS X 10.8.2
As of OS X 10.8.2, Messages will prompt you add your iOS phone number for your iMessage account. This means you will be able to send
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Mail peels back the pile to find that one message

19 Sep 2012
Finer Author
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Mail, skeuomorphism
If you select a series of messages in Mail, then change your mind about one that’s not on top, the stack of messages will curl
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Safari will add a slash for you

14 Sep 2012
David Chartier
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Safari, Safari 6
If you start typing a URL in Safari 6 and hit the right arrow to auto-complete one of its suggestions, Safari will automatically add a
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