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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
2005-12-21

Create a list of login (startup) items' paths
Startup Items can cause conflicts in OS X just as in earlier Mac systems. You can reorder them, or delete them, in the Accounts System Preferencespane. Unfortunately, there is no way to temporarily turn off a Startup Item.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051128060843412&lsrc=osxh

Secrets of the Preview icon in Get Info windows
I am not sure if people are aware of this, but I discovered it completely by accident. Go to the Finder, click on a file and open the file's Get Info window (Command-I, via the contextual menus, or File: Get Info).

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051122155751822&lsrc=osxh

Save open tabs in Safari into a bookmarks folder
I, like others, have always wanted to save the open tabs in Safari as a set of bookmarked sites. One reason is when I have no choice but to quit Safari, but have not finished with all the pages in the tabs and so lose them.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051121170745971&lsrc=osxh

How to join existing tracks in iTunes
If you've ever listened to a live Phish album or a Pink Floyd album or The Beatles' Abbey Road album, or many classical albums or Jackson Browne's two classic songs 'The Load Out' and 'Stay,' you'll quickly realize that many ...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051210085622131&lsrc=osxh

Re-download podcasts without subscribing again
For some unknown reason, I lost a few episodes of a podcast, so iTunes showed them with an exclamation mark and no obvious way to re-download them.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051204231158931&lsrc=osxh

Create a 'password safe' for online passwords
Like many readers, I have three or four online accounts I want to protect. One way is to use good passwords, but how can I remember them or store them securely on my Mac?

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051126090714686&lsrc=osxh

Prevent CD and DVD disks from becoming stuck
There has been written a lot about one issue: CDs an DVDs have a tendency to get stuck in the drive at times. Most hints suggest a reboot for remedy. This was unacceptable to me.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051207044615606&lsrc=osxh

Speed up save and open dialog boxes
I was having to wait up to a minute every time I saved a file in an application when using Tiger. I looked high and low for a reason, and finally discovered that having my iDisk sync set to Automatic was the problem.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051202125345179&lsrc=osxh

Change screenshot format in Tiger
A collegue of mine running Mac OS X 10.4 wanted to change the default .png format of the screenshot back to the 10.3 default .pdf.
http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/change_screenshot_format_in_tiger

View two different Spotlight searches at once
This is partly a bug, partly a feature (perhaps?)...
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051209013955751&lsrc=osxh

Play DVDs from any region
Most Macs have region-encoded DVD drives, and you only get to change regions a few times before you get stuck with one region.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051130104135761&lsrc=osxh
A possible fix for unplayable Windows Media files
The fabulous video program VLC plays most of the video files that I come across. One exception is some, but not all, Windows Media files (with a .wmv-suffix). So, I go to the not-so-fabulous Windows Media Player 9, which also...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051210064701676&lsrc=osxh

A possible way to save a corrupted drive or partition
An unhappy event happened to a cheese-maker friend -- he hadn't made any back-ups of his old G3 tower, and naturally the hard disk went down along with all the recipes of his award-winning cheeses.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051123181231470&lsrc=osxh