Posts tagged mac

Use Function Keys As Standard Function Keys On Mac Keyboard

How To: Use Function Keys As Function Keys On The Mac Keyboard

Aug 13th

Posted by Mark in Tutorials

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This is only a little tidbit but well worth it’s weight in gold (or brushed steel?!)…

Use Function Keys As Standard Function Keys On Mac Keyboard

You’ve got a fantastic Apple Wireless keyboard on your Mac, works beautifully and feels great – but sometimes you just want to press F1 and get some help ; not turn your brightness down….

Reclaim The Use Of Your Mac Keyboard Function Keys

To get the use of your Mac function keys back simply open up Mac System Preferences, head over to the Keyboard section and check the box labeled “Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as More >

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Mac Dashboard Freezes / Mac Dashboard Not Working – Try This

Jul 11th

Posted by Mark in Tutorials

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I had a very bizarre situation last week where my Mac Dashboard started experiencing freezes, and when the Mac Dashboard freezes your widgets just do not work!

I’d never come across it before and, after some digging around on plenty of forums I was advised that if my Mac Dashboard is not working, it could be an issue with a corrupt preference file.

Mac Dashboard Freezes / Dashboard Not Working – The Solution

Open up: home folder > library > preferences and delete: com.apple.dashboard.plist.

Now restart your Mac and all of your Dashboard widgets should be reset to default and working again.

Thanks to Barry More >

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Stop The “Play / Pause” Button Controlling iTunes When Using Spotify On A Mac

Jul 9th

Posted by Mark in Tutorials

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This is only a little one but it was a right pain in the proverbial…. When you’re listening to Spotify on your Mac and you hit “Play / Pause” on your little Mac keyboard, sure Spotify pauses – but iTunes opens up too; if you’ve already got iTunes open (syncing your phone for example) then it starts playing the selected track.

What a pain!

Anyway, thankfully there’s a very easy fix…

Stopping Your Mac “Play / Pause” Button Controlling iTunes When Listening To Spotify

All you need to do is hold down “Shift + Alt” whilst you press “Play / Pause” and voila, More >

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Detach Widgets From Your Mac OSX Dashboard

Jun 16th

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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This is a fun little post, I use the Paymo Mac dashboard widget to track my time on client jobs, blogging and so on. I have this on my Mac Snow Leopard dashboard which is fantastic.

The only problem is that sometimes I forget to either start the timer or stop the timer when I start / finish work on a particular task. The reason for this is that the Paymo widget is on my Mac Dashboard and I just simply forget to bring the dashboard up, because it isn’t there in my face yelling at me to do it.

To aid this More >

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Moving From PC To Mac, Finding The Best Mac Office Software & Migrating Your Outlook To Mac

Feb 3rd

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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A while ago I considered making the move from PC to Mac. There were a few reasons really, to be honest the main one was the seemingly inevitable degradation of Windows after a bit of use.

We’ve all experienced that!

Of course, Macs look great and we all know they perform well; given that Apple brought out a new range last Autumn it seemed like a good move.

As a web designer and general business owner I had a few concerns:

  • How could I best transfer all of my files from my PC to Mac?
  • As a hoarder, I have some serious email storage, so More >
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The Best Mac Dashboard Widgets For Web Designers & Developers

Jan 12th

Posted by Mark in SEO, Social Media & Web Tidbits

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I’ve been looking at the best Mac dashboard widgets to help me speed up my web design and development cycle. I’ve a few Mac dashboard widgets already in place but they’re all gimmicky really.

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After coming across various widgets I stumbled across a fantastic blog post by SpeckBoy entitled “30 Mac Dashboard Widgets for Web Designers & Developers” – and it’s a little treasure chest. Some of the best Mac dashboard widgets are laid out for you to qcuickly check out and download.

There are some little gems on here, especially the following:

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Add HootSuite to your Mac Dock – HootSuite Mac Widget?!

Jan 9th

Posted by Mark in SEO, Social Media & Web Tidbits

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Ok, it’s not quite a HootSuite Mac Widget just yet – but it’s as near as it can be right now!

I’ve been using HootSuite for a while now and became frustrated at having to run it in a web browser. It just seems a little old school (I know I know, it isn’t!).

So, I did a bit of looking around and found a fantastic blog post which shows you how to use Fluid to create your own HootSuite Mac App…. I’ve tried it and it works a treat – HootSuite now sits nicely on my Mac Dock… :0)

How to use Fluid More >

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