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How to use the Dock with Applications

The Keep in Dock contextual menu option in Snow Leopard.

The Dock is very handy for working with Applications. Here’s how to add, remove or just move Applications.

Read the full article ↣ 24 February 2010 1 comment

How to customise the Mac’s Dock (Part 1)

Dock System Preference pane.

The Dock is the strip of icons at the bottom of a new Mac’s screen. Learn how to move it, hide it, and change its behaviour.

Read the full article ↣ 10 February 2010 0 comments

The Hiding Option

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Hide Other applications to clear away visual clutter.

Read the full article ↣ 20 May 2009 0 comments

Arrange Application icons on the iPhone or iPod touch

Move Application icons on the iPhone and iPod touch screens for easier access.

Read the full article ↣ 18 March 2009 40 comments

Assign Applications to Leopard Spaces

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Find out how to keep an application in just one Space — or in all of them.

Read the full article ↣ 28 November 2007 1 comment

The Software Series: Find and install software

How to install .tgz compressed software on a Mac.

Read the full article ↣ 16 May 2007 0 comments

Picture yourself in Photo Booth

Use Apple’s Photo Booth software to take still shots, email them to friends, add them to a web page, use them as your iChat buddy icon or as your user picture for the login screen.

Read the full article ↣ 28 March 2007 5 comments

Get there sooner

Learn these handy keystrokes for opening some much-used folders on your Mac.

Read the full article ↣ 7 June 2005 0 comments

Hard drive

The hard drive in your computer is the filing cabinet. It’s where all your files and folders and applications are stored. Hard drives fail though — here’s one story.

Read the full article ↣ 23 March 2005 1 comment

I'll open that

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Set the application on your Mac to open certain types of files. For example, open PDFs in Preview instead of Adobe Reader.

Read the full article ↣ 19 January 2005 1 comment