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2006-02-25

WebWatch
Mac 911: Bending iWeb to your will
Use iWeb as a NetNewsWire Weblog Editor
Easiest Way to Prepare Movies for Your iPod
Make iWeb create text instead of images
Set some hidden preferences in iPhoto 6
iPhoto postcards
Reduce iWeb and Pages disk space utilization

Convert videos for iPod directly in iTunes
How to boot an Intel Mac from an external drive

Listen to the sounds of network traffic
Upgrading RAM: FAQs
Modify graphics in iWeb templates
Create fully customized iWeb templates
Avoid a security vulnerability in Safari

Boot Intel Macs from iPods and FireWire drives
MacBook Pro Reviewer's Notebook
2005-07-22

Exporting Keynote 2 to PowerPoint
If your Keynote presentation won't export to PowerPoint, you may be in need of better bullets.

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/06/exportkeynote2/index.php? lsrc=mac911blog

A fix for certain Classic apps not starting
I had a couple of Classic applications that had been refusing to open since an Archive & Install upgrade to Tiger.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005060607254295&lsrc=osxh

Editors' Notes: How I learned to stop worrying and love IMAP
Jennifer Berger used to turn up her nose at IMAP-based e-mail until it was time to keep tabs on messages from three different computers.

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/06/imap/index.php?lsrc=mwrss

Use built-in screen capture tools on Widgets
In Tiger, invoke the Dashboard, hit Command-Shift-4, and then hit the Space Bar. Place the camera icon over your chosen Widget and hit return. A .png file of the Widget will be added to the desktop.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050620052055550&lsrc=osxh

Reduce iTunes skipping on an external drive
Since installing Tiger, I have moved my music collection onto an external FireWire hard drive, while keeping iTunes and my library files on the internal hard drive. I noticed frequent skipping in playback

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050623234932431&lsrc=osxh

Possibly recover files from a damaged SIT archive
I've been rolling old archives forward to fend off losing older files due to application and OS changes. This includes unzipping, untarring, unSITing, etc.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050627193041148&lsrc=osxh

WHERE-TO Bonanza: 50 Great Summertime Web Sites for You & Your Mac mini
Today, we're switching gears to WHERE-TO and providing 50 of our favorite Mac mini resources on the web that will tell you anything and everything you ever wanted to know about Mac technology.

http://mundy.org/blog/index.php?p=59

Export OPML out of Safari RSS
I wrote a script to export Safari's RSS's feeds to an OPML file. This allowed me to import the script into other news readers like bloglines. First, Download the ExportRss2Opml.sh script, and save the file somewhere.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050613221526553&lsrc=osxh

Log into iChat with Away status
If you've ever wanted to log into iChatAV and immediately change your status as away, here's a simple Applescript to do it. It will ask for your away status message and launch iChatAV for you.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050615154858714&lsrc=osxh

Use older Sherlock to search by filename
Sometimes one needs to just search for a certain filename (like it was possible in 10.3 and before) without indexing the volume first.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050622204527771&lsrc=osxh
Type in applications while Dashboard is active
I guess this is a bug, but if so, it's the best bug Apple has ever invented. Like many people, I sometimes wish that I could keep Dashboard visible while I was interacting with other programs...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050627203154837&lsrc=osxh

Manual mount external drives in target disk mode
A few days ago, I got a system-wide Spinning Beachball of Doom while installing the Mac OS X 10.3.9 Combo Updater, and was forced to restart.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050709145413885&lsrc=osxh