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Apple’s web services product, formerly known as .Mac, becomes MobileMe tonight, sometime between 6pm and 12am Pacific Time. A major overhaul to the $100 per year service will let subscribers manage email, calendar and contacts, …

Top and bottom casing of MacBook Pro
AppleInsider reports that the leaked MacBook Pro case photo published over the weekend is, in fact, legitimate.

Although the enclosure shown in the photo appears to be a slightly dat…

AppleInsider reports that the leaked MacBook Pro case photo published over the weekend is, in fact, legitimate.

Although the enclosure shown in the photo appears to be a slightly dated prototype that has somehow found its way …

Rogers issued a press release today announcing a last minute special promotional offer for the iPhone 3G in Canada.

Effective July 11, and as a limited time promotional offer for customers who activate by August 31 on a three year con…

There’s a well-known problem in Excel 2008 (unlike Word 2008) where you as the user can’t easily add the Subscript and Superscript formatting buttons to a toolbar — these buttons appear in the Formatting Palette, but the commands don’t appear in the Customize menu, meaning there’s no apparent way to add them to a toolbar.

In Excel 2004, the same problem existed, but there’s a Visual Basic for Applications workaround to add the buttons to the toolbar. Using that information, I created small AppleScript to add the needed buttons to the standard Formatting toolbar in Excel 2008:

<div style=”margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:420px; height:120px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap” …

Since almost every program installs files in many different places, it can be nearly impossible to completely remove an installed application. But with Leopard’s new fsevents service, which tracks all write activity to the hard drive, a user can find out where all the miscellaneous files are, thus allowing them to be removed manually.

To do this, first install fseventer, run it, and turn it on (press the Play button). Then reinstall the program you wish to remove. You’ll see the tree diagram in fseventer populated with every file that’s been changed. Next, open the program you just installed (since many programs create their preference files upon first launch). Then stop (press the Pause button) fseventer. Now you can follow the paths to the files and delete each of them manually for a complete uninstall. If you need to get to files in folders which Finder hides, you can ch…

I’m always searching for something to write on when I want to take a quick note. I know that Mail in 10.5 includes a note function, but it’s usually been too much trouble to launch Mail and then navigate the menus to select a new note.

So I finally put together this little AppleScript that I use with Quicksilver’s hotkeys to launch a new note with just one keystroke:

tell application "Mail"
  activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
  tell process "Mail"
    click the menu item "New Note" of the menu "File" of menu bar 1
  end tell
end tell

I save the script as an application, and assign it to the F7 key in Quicksilver. Now when I need to take a quick note, it’s just one key press away. As an alternative to using Quicksilver’s hotkey, this script can be saved as an application and placed in the Dock, making a new note just one click away.

Calling Vista the most secure operating in the world (and taking jabs at Mac OS X security), Microsoft on Tuesday relented in its defense of the problematic Windows Vista, which has been the butt of many of Apple’s jokes through its …

Calling Vista the most secure operating in the world (and taking jabs at Mac OS X security), Microsoft on Tuesday relented in its defense of the problematic Windows Vista, which has been the butt of many of Apple’s jokes through its …

AppleInsider provides some additional notes about the iPhone 3G launch on Friday at U.S. Apple Retail stores and offers some clarity to one purchasing scenario.

According to their sources, current non-iPhone AT&T customers can go to A…