Although it at first appears to be a very simple application, Apple’s Address Book actually has a lot of tricks up its sleeve, and some excellent plugins are available to guide its way to become an incredible tool for remembering birthdays, getting directions, and organizing all your contacts.
The BasicsUnder the General pane of the Address [...]

If you are getting bored of Apple’s wallpapers, check out some of Glenn Wolsey’s awesome photographs. He releases a new wallpaper every week, and is up to forty so far. Most are really great, but sadly you have to download each one separately. Check them all out here.
I’ve really come to love Glenn Wolsey’s blog [...]

I recently saw a few interesting articles on the coolest Mac display setups. The articles are featured on Glenn Wolsey’s blog. Check out these impressive setups and take a look at some of Glenn’s other posts. If you have a few thousand dollars or a bunch of Apple Cinema Displays just sitting around, these are [...]

A great and simple keyboard shortcut in all Mac apps is Option-Delete. Use this shortcut while in a text box or document, and instead of one letter being deleted, the previous word is deleted.

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Infinite Labs‘ cool Safari plug-in Twicetab adds a convenient feature that allows you to open new tabs in Safari by simply double-clicking on the tab bar. It also makes opening URLs in the clipboard easier, and allows you to close tabs by holding down Option or the mouse wheel and clicking on the tab in [...]

It took a little longer than I would have liked but the new forum is up and running!

Take a look around. Have a question? Ask on the forum. Have a comment? Ask on the forum. Bored and just want to talk? Talk on the forum.
I’m very excited to be taking this step. MacTips has reached [...]

Macs apparently have one volume setting that does not appear on the standard volume menu. It is basically a point in between 0 and 1. To access it, simply click your volume all the way to zero, and then press the mute button. This way, while no lights are lit up, their is still sound [...]

MacLife has an interesting article that describes 40 different ways your Mac can improve take over your life. This includes an elaborate time-zone related light control system, trusting your Apple computer with your morning tea, and raising your own little Flappie pet. View the article here. Be warned that acquiring every product on the list [...]

While the iPhone must be hacked to run third-party applications, bookmarklets are quite easy to use within Safari. LifeClever has a cool article on the seventeen best bookmarklets for the iPhone, which should be compatible on the new iPod Touch as well.

[Via 43 Folders]

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A cool and efficient way to rewind and fast-forward Apple’s Quicktime Player is to scroll up and down while the cursor is in the Quicktime window. Scrolling up fast-forwards, and scrolling down rewinds the video.
 
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