iLife ‘09 has shipped and should soon be arriving here, but in the meantime, MacLife has posted a great list of 20 Tips and Tricks for iLife ‘09.

There are tips included for iPhoto, GarageBand, iMovie, and iWeb. (Frankly, iDVD hasn’t changed - so there isn’t much left to “tip” about it)

Click Here to check out all the tips and tricks.

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If you open a file in Preview, you may have noticed that Preview marks that file as in-use until you close the application. So you could literally have opened something days ago, and if you haven’t closed Preview, it’s still laying claim to that file.

If you want to delete the file, it can be a pain.

Mac OS X Hints has a simple solution to this problem, though. Open Script Editor and create the following AppleScript.

tell application “Preview”
quit
end tell

tell application “Finder”
empty trash
end tell

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There’s a new security hole in Safari that has been discovered, and it could be big trouble if you use Apple’s browser as your primary RSS reader. The hole would allow an attacker to easily access personal information in email and other web based info you may want to keep to yourself.

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To fix this issue, however, all you have to do is go to Preferences>RSS> then select anything other than Safari as your default RSS Reader. This will solve the problem until Apple gets a fix out there in the wild.

I really love the new Google Mobile App. It has an amazing voice function, and it’s not a bad looking App. Google, however, has a few tricks up their sleeves in regards to the App. They’re going to reveal more of them during Macworld 2009, but today they’ve unveiled an “easter egg” in the App that allows you to customize a few additional settings including Theme Color, Sounds, and you can turn on two options including Live Waveform and Open Links in App.

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To access them you have to go the main Settings then scroll down to the “About” button and continue to scroll down further. Do this two or three times and a “Bells and Whistles” option will pop up and allow you to access the new screen.

Apple’s Mobile Me service has had its ups and downs since it launched, but for the most part recently it’s been running fine. I have a Mobile Me account, and after the multiple extensions Apple gave me because of those initial problems, the account is now up for renewal.

I don’t use the Mobile Me service all that much - but I do want to keep my email address, so it’s time to renew. I do not, however, want to pay $99 for it - which is what Apple will charge me if I just renew it on me.com.

That’s ok, though, because there are plenty of options to get Mobile Me cheaper than that.

If you want to buy from a retail store you can get it from Amazon for $79.99 for a single user license, and $92.99 for a family pack. That will save you $20 right there (as long as you choose the free shipping option).

Or, if you want to go even cheaper, you can head to eBay, and find some great deals on brand-new copies of “Mobile Me”. The cheapest deal I’ve found so far is a copy of “Mobile Me” for $54.99 with free shipping included. You can check out the eBay auction right here. If that’s expired by the time you read this you can check the seller’s profile, who seems to sell copies of “Mobile Me” a lot.

You can find many “Mobile Me” auctions on eBay by doing a quick search, and someone is always selling it a a steep discount. So if you’re looking to save a few bucks on your renewal, or for trying it for the first time - a little research will go a long way.

You may have noticed that Apple Mail does not play the “new mail alert” message every time you get a new email. This is an issue that has been present since the first release of OSX 10.5, but it has never been fixed by Apple.

Thankfully someone over at MacOSXhints has solved the problem. All you have to do is turn off the IDLE command (which is what Mail’s IMAP is using sometimes to discover a new message). In Mail open Preferences, then go to Accounts>Advanced. In all your mail accounts turn off the “Use IDLE command” feature. Now go to Preferences>General, and set “Check for new Mail every minute”.

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The Mac Giving Tree is a promotion from the team behind MacHeist to get more people on their mailing list for when the next MacHeist launches. If you don’t mind getting a few emails, you can get some really great free software from them today, tomorrow, and on Christmas Day.

Right now Synergy and Enigmo 2 are available for free if you sign up, and there are two more presents that you’ll be able to unwrap on Christmas Day. If you refer two friends, you can also get two additional apps on the 25th as well.

All you have to do is head over to MacHeist.

The iPhone’s predictive text can be annoying - especially if you’re spelling an odd street name, or a person’s name that isn’t spelled in a traditional way. After the recent iPhone update, there is a way to keep this from happening according to MacOSXhints.

All you have to do is capitalize the first letter of any word that isn’t the first word of a sentence. If you do that, the iPhone will not attempt to correct the spelling, no matter how you spell it.

We often like to have our folders arranged either by name or by kind or by date, but Mac’s right click(two-finger click) allows you only to arrange the files once. After that any new files you add just keep piling up at the end. There’s a neat trick to keep your folder arranged in a particular way. After the right click, just hold the OPTION key. It changes the ‘Arrange by’ to ‘Keep Arranged by’ and then you can choose how you want to keep your folder organized.

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Cameron Spear writes in with a great little tip for those of you that can’t figure out why your browser is skipping checkboxes and radio buttons.

He writes:

I couldn’t figure out why it was skipping checkboxes and radio buttons on Firefox and Safari. I thought it was a browser configuration, but I found it in System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts and there is a little place to check that you want to Tab through all Controls and not just Text Boxes and Lists Only at the bottom (default shortcut: ^fn F7). I found this super helpful and wanted to share.