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Besides that, though, the Windows-within-a-Mac app has some great features, and it uses up fewer resources than its predecessors. After Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple began selling Macintosh Latest News about Macintosh …

One of the things that makes Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) so useful it that it can integrate, to varying degrees, with all broswers via its JavaScript bookmarklets. Many other sites also use these — for example, I have bookmarklets for Digg, FaceBook, and more. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to activate these from a keyboard shortcut? You can!

1. Add a bookmarklet to your Bookmarks menu, not to your favorites bar.
2. In System Preferences, go to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel, and add a keyboard shortcut with the exact name of your bookmarklet. You can specify the application as either your chosen browser, or for All Applications if you use multiple browsers. If you choose All Applications, just make sure the bookmarklet has the same name in all browsers.

Now I can post to Delicious by pressing the same keyboard shortcut everywhere. Yay!

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The problem: You have Time Machine set up using a sparsebundle on a network drive, such as a Time Capsule or an AirPort Extreme-connected hard drive. Most of the time, everything works great. Consider this reproducible scenario, however:

1. You are working away at home and a hourly backup starts. Time machine automagically mounts the sparsebundle.
2. You need to leave and put your laptop to sleep, not paying attention to the fact that time machine is working.
3. You move your laptop to work/school and wake it up.
4. The sparsebundle is still mounted, but obviously does not work. Finder and Spotlight grow increasing stuck until you have to reboot your machine. It occurs to you that the image back home was not closed properly and that eventually, this will corrupt your backups!

Solution:

1. Install SleepWatcher (I …
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Skype always irritated me with its automatic microphone volume changes. The Windows version has the ability to disable this option in the preferences pane, but the Mac version does not. Today, I spent some time trying to solve this problem. After some searching on net, I found a solution for the Windows version which also works on the Mac.

Quit Skype and open the folloving file with TextEdit: ~/Library » Application Support » Skype » shared.xml. At the end of the document, you’ll see this section:

<VoiceEng>  <MicVolume>77</MicVolume></VoiceEng>

Simply change this section to look like this (adding one new line):

<VoiceEng>  <AGC>0</AGC>  <MicVolume>100</MicVolume></VoiceEng>

AGC means Automatic Gain Control, and setting it to 0 disables this feature. Set it to 1 if you want to enable it again. The MicVolume can range from 0 (mute) to …

While technical readers may find the content of Hubbard’s presentation slides (PDF) quite interesting, the most surprising revelation is a more specific target date for Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): 1st Quarter 2009. …

Apple’s Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA ‘08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at engineers and system administrators. This year’s c…

For example, if you say “pizza” or “sushi” or any of the tired phrases you’ve seen in the Apple ads, you’ll get a list of local pizza or sushi restaurants, along with embedded Google maps and phone numbers that will launch a voice call …

A California judge has dismissed a counterclaim from Psystar which asserted that Apple was violating federal and state anti-trust laws in limiting the sale and use of Mac OS X on Apple branded computers..

But in a 19-page order pass…

As it turns out, it appears the machine is actually a prototype model of Apple’s MacBook Air. After receiving the unit, Brett33 noticed that the bottom of the laptop was made of black aluminum and that the screen bezel did not have …

MacRumors forum member Brett33 bought an “as is” MacBook Air on eBay for a selling price of $730. As it turns out, it appears the machine is actually a prototype model of Apple’s MacBook Air.

After receiving the unit, Brett33 noticed …