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You can use an AppleScript to send a notification to Growl whenever new messages arrive in Mail.app. The script also includes the image of the sender from your Address Book as the icon of the Growl notification. Works in Snow Leopard and Lion.

I adapt…

This hint describes how to easily see all the emails in one conversation without having to open them and scroll through.

If you have your emails ‘organized by conversation’ you will see in the email list in the left column the number of emails in that…

Every now and then I poke around the web to see if someone has found a way to search InDesign files with Spotlight. For many users of InDesign, this missing capability has been a point of frustration since Spotlight was introduced with Tiger back in Ap…

There’s a recent Macworld article for quickly making Stickies. I thought that some folks might want to make Sticky Widgets instead.

This is derived from my hint posted a few years ago.

Depending on your system version (and possibly other factors), yo…

Under Lion, the screen saver authentication dialog box does not allow you to enter a username. So even if you’ve made the changes detailed in this Snow Leopard hint there is no way to put in alternate credentials to unlock a user’s screen.

First, edit…

Word 2011′s built-in fullscreen mode leaves a lot to be desired. Microsoft says they’re updating the program to use Lion’s fullscreen mode, but until then, here’s a way to hide all the interface elements so you can use the whole screen.

After you put …

Are you running another OS with the great and free VirtualBox virtualization application by Oracle? Are you also using TimeMachine? Chances are that you are excessively using Time Machine and filling your Backup disk with slightly different but still h…

You can search the iTunes list of radio stations if you add them to a playlist that you created.

If you click the built-in Radio list in your iTunes Library, you can see lots of internet audio streaming radio stations, apparently chosen by Apple, orga…

While viewing my purchased apps in the Mac application of ‘App Store’ I clicked the (X) next to the iPhoto Installed button. iPhoto immediately disappeared from the list of purchased apps.

There is no Undo for this nor any other obvious or searched…

I do have some video podcasts I’d love to be able to listen to in double speed on my iPhone. However, this only works for audio files.

For audio files in your iTunes library, it’s possible to quickly convert them to your default audio encoding using t…