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This tip will save brain cells.

By • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

If you’re a Mac user and you’ve ever used the keyboard shortcut to Force Quit applications (if you’ve never used it, upgrading to Snow Leopard will most definitely make it a necessity), you know that it’s alt-Apple-Escape. You’ve probably also noticed that from time to time, you bring up the dreaded “Front Row” menu when [...]



Tilt2Joystick updated to version 1.1 – now you can exchange X and Y Axis

By • Oct 9th, 2009 • Category: Software

The world’s first user-programmable tilt interface for Macintosh has just been update to version 1.1.  A drastic addition has been made in the form of a new cability to exchange the X and Y Axes (see below).  This is particularly useful for the new Macbook Pro 15″ Unibody model, which according to one source has [...]



Restoring the Recent Items menu in Mac apps if upgrading to Snow Leopard has revealed that they are always empty

By • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

Many users (myself included) have noticed to their dismay, that the Recent Items menu of the native Mac applications such as Preview and Text Edit are empty no matter how many times they are opened.  I had to choose the wording of this posts’s title carefully because the current theory seems to indicate that the [...]



Snow Leopard Screenshots

By • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Photo

Here are some screenshots of the new Macintosh OS 10.6: Snow Leopard.  This is a Facebook album, so you can leave comments if you are on my friend list, otherwise you can browse the photo album. Go to pictures



How to re-enable printing to PDF with Finale 2009 after upgrading to Snow Leopard

By • Aug 31st, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

If you just upgraded to Snow Leopard, but you haven’t re-installed your printer yet, you may be having trouble printing PDF files from Finale 2009. This will normally result in blank pages.  If your business is sharing sheet music, then this is a big problem. Finale has a workaround listed here: [go to workaround] This [...]