Have you ever been doing a presentation in front of a large audience when all of a sudden, Front Row activates because some wiseguy snuck in an Apple Remote? It’s an embarrassing prank that I’m sure has happened at least once to every Macbook using teacher on the planet. You may have wondered to [...]

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Steven Frank (developer of Coda, and co-creator of Panic) has released “the first three of what will become a series of tutorial videos. They’re hosted on a subsection of the Coda Web site, name Coda Developer“
So again, check that out here, as of right now they have this list of videos:

User Interface Essentials
To learn your [...]

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With certain songs the amplitudes can be off. One song may be a little quieter, so you turn your speakers up and the very next song in your playlist is super loud and you damage your ears. Thankfully iTunes comes with setting to fix this: in the iTunes –> Preferences, click on the Playback [...]

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Inspector windows–floating boxes that let you change various aspects of a document–are commonly found in OS X applications. They typically contain anywhere between one and ten significantly different panes.
To open an Inspector window, one typically presses the ubiquituous Inspector button a white italicized “i” in a blue circle. To close an Inspector window, one either [...]

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Here’s a quick way to track down your Dock applications. Hold Command while clicking on a Dock icon (Stacks included) and its location in the Finder shall be revealed.

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Adam Pash, over at Lifehacker. He says that it’s almost as easy as installing it on a Mac. To perform the installation, first you need to mess with the BIOS settings to match those found in the pictures he posted, then you torrent a file called “Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 SSE2 SSE3″ [...]

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My Damn Channel � You Suck at Photoshop #4
Using paths in Photoshop

Remote Disc: no movie playback, no HD support, and everything else you need to know - Engadget
A few details on Remote Disc

Personal Technology - WSJ.com
Walt Mossberg reviews the MacBook Air

Facebook IM Client Social.im Now Available For Mac
Chat with your Facebook friends through Adium.

Why Mac [...]

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Computers were invented with the intention of automating tedious tasks. The reality today however, is that along with computers have come a lot other tedious tasks to add to the originals. But thankfully *nix variants have a handy tool called cron. cron is a terminal command that allows you to designate a set of commands [...]

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I hate waking up to the harsh sound of an alarm clock and I’m sure many of you feel the same. Aurora is an application that solves this problem by turning your computer into an alarm clock that uses your iTunes music to wake you up.
To set up an alarm, click the green “Create” button [...]

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Over at the vim_mac Google Group they got MacVim’s own version of Edit in TextMate (see this post) working.

To install:

Install MacVim
Download and mount this disk image here.
In the terminal do:
defaults write org.slashpunt.edit_in_odbeditor ODBEditorBundleIdentifier “org.vim.MacVim”
defaults write org.slashpunt.edit_in_odbeditor ODBEditorName MacVim
sudo mkdir /Library/InputManagers
sudo cp -pR “/Volumes/Vim/Edit in ODBEditor” /Library/InputManagers
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers

Then restart the [...]

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