Sometimes, the whole system of attaching a file can be quite tedious because you have to look up the file you wish to attach, even if it’s sitting right on your desktop. Here’s a quick tip that will skip all the tedious browsing required to attach a file.

If you drag a file on to [...]

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It’s video time, and once again we’re focusing on Quicksilver. I swear next week will be on something else.
This video will show you two different ways of managing todo lists with Quicksilver.
The first method involves the Text Manipulation plugin, using text files for managing your list.
The other option uses Remember the Milk, a free service [...]

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These days encryption and digital security is more important than ever. Up until a week or so ago Linux and
Windows users had this great tool called TrueCrypt, now it is also on the Mac. TrueCrypt is free and open
source software. The home site [...]

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Alcor (nickname for the developer of Quicksilver)
is
compiling a huge list of user defaults. User defaults
include things like if you want the Safari debug menu to show up, if you want the dock to [...]

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Have you ever been surfing the web and thought, “Gee, I have no clue what that is, I wish I could instantly look that up without having to touch my keyboard”?. Actually, you can. Just right click (or secondary click, whatever you like to call it) the word in question and select “Look up in [...]

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When you normally adjust the volume from your keyboard it will lower it by one block which can be a little much. However by pressing Shift-Alt-Volume(F4/F5, volume lower/volume higher), it will change the volume by a quarter of a block.

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Snippets have become one of the must-have features in text editors thanks mainly to TextMate. Most editors now have
their own version of them; of course TextMate has it’s snippets capability built-in by default, Emacs has
snippet.el, VIM has the SnippetsEmu script (and some others [...]

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You probably already know that pressing Tab while in Safari, cycles through all the text fields on your current page. What you might not be aware of is that if you hold Option when pressing Tab, it will highlight the next object the site (or text field).
For example, if I hit Option + Tab while [...]

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Panic Inc. creates some of the best Mac software on the market. From Coda to Transmit to CandyBar, Panic’s software simply works. One of the great things about two of their most popular applications, Transmit and Coda, is that they function very well together. Coda’s FTP functionality is built on Transmit’s, and, because of this, [...]

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New with the current iTunes (7.6.1, or could have been earlier) apparently you are able to search by star rating. All you have to do is simply go to the search box and type in a “*”, the more you type in the higher the rating.
So for example lets say you have the song “Like [...]

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