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Changing the Menu Date & Time In Mac OS X

I’ve got several e-mails from friends, family, and people who read my blogs asking how to change time and date on the menu bar. It’s fairly simple to do, and you don’t need to install a whole other piece of software to see today’s date in your menubar, you can add it manually in System […]

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Simple Tricks for Mac OS 10.5 ( Leopard)

I was reading my Twitter stream yesterday, and found a great link from FactoryJoe aka Chris Messina. He posted a great tutorial for putting your mac or display to sleep with a simple key command. After reading the tutorial over at Leopard Tricks.com  , I kept reading the website to find even more great tutorials like this one, which is doing simple commands in terminal to […]

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Computer Shutdown Day

Could you go 24 hours without using your computer? On May 3, 2008 many will shut down for the day and not use their desktop or laptops. Why? Because it’s Shutdown Day, which gets people to think about how their lives have changed since using a laptop or desktop in everyday life.
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Getting Things Done

I have not read the book yet, but I’ve been trying to follow David Allen’s concept of GTD(Getting Things Done) online. I downloaded a great program for the Mac called iGTD. iGTD takes some concepts and ideas from the Getting Things Done methodology by allowing you to organize your life by contexts or […]

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Know Your Shortcuts

I recently found a website via Digg that has posted about all the keyboard shortcuts available for Mac OSX.”This Complete Guide To OSX Keyboard Shortcuts,has every possible keyboard shortcut that one could need for OSX.read more | digg story”
Tags: macos, shortcuts, macosx, apple, digg

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E-mail Webpages in Mac OSX

Pretty cool if you’re on a mac and want to mail a web page to someone. Just load the website in Safari and hit the keyboard command ⌘I. or just go to File-> Mail Contents of This Page

Tags: mac, tips, osx, mail

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Post Weather to G-Calendar or Ical

I’ve been looking for a way to add weather to my iCal Calendar and I found this great link on Lifehacker. The tutorial on Lifehacker is straight forward and you can also add weather feeds to your Google Calendar as well.
Tags: weather, gcal, ical, calendar, rss

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Throwing Out Schedules & Mandatory Meetings.

I was reading an article from Yahoo! that Best Buy is currently testing a new work ethic.
“The nation’s leading electronics retailer has embarked on a risky experiment to transform a culture of killer hours and herd-riding bosses. The endeavor, called ROWE, for “results-only work environment,” seeks to demolish decades-old business dogma that equates physical presence […]