Category: How-To

  • Using iTunes with Multiple Drives

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    There was a time when all my media (TV shows, music, movies) fit on a single 80GB hard drive, but now that broadband speeds have more then doubled since those years I’ve gotten a lot more media and filled many more hard drives. Currently I have about 1.4 terabytes spread out across 9 external hard…

  • Burn iTunes Audio CD – With Text!

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    Have you ever noticed that when you play certain CDs in your car or home stereo, the CD, track and sometimes even the artist name will show up on CD player’s display? In my experience, only wide-release CDs from top artists such as Bob Dylan or the White Stripes have this text information. Not all…

  • Updating the iCal Icon & Friday the 13th

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    First, Happy Friday the 13th. This “holiday” has me thinking about what I consider to be the lame iCal icon, that always shows July 17th as the default date (unless iCal is launched – in that case the icon shows the correct date.) The iCal icon shows the July 17 date because that’s when it…

  • All Things Customized – Web Browsers

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    This is my first week here at Small Dog (it’s great to be here, by the way!), and as expected, we wasted no time getting down to business. Ed and I were chatting about the Windows incarnation of Safari, and what that means for the Switcher. My feeling was that many Windows users are not…

  • It's 11 PM. Do You Know Where Your Quicktime Parts Are?

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    A few months ago, a customer wrote in saying that he had a new camera that only took movies in AVI format, which he couldn’t watch on his Mac. He was getting audio but no video, along with the message that “Quicktime parts are missing.” Quicktime can play .AVI (Audio Video Interleave) files. According to…

  • How to Erase Your Macs Hard Drive Before Selling It (OS 10.4)

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    Hannah, the manager of our Burlington retail store recently decided to upgrade her Core Duo black MacBook to a Core 2 Duo black MacBook. First, she used Migration Assistant and a firewire cable to move everything from the old Mac to the new Mac. Migration Assistant is included with OS 10.4 – it can be…

  • Dashboard – Love It or Leave It

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    By Matt@Smalldog.com (written by Matt, posted by Ed) Dashboard is a love-or-hate feature of MacOS X 10.4 Tiger. I still haven’t decided whether I love it or hate it, but its voracious appetite for memory is certainly hate worthy. I have little use for stickies (I still use the analog version: real-life post-it notes stuck…

  • Importing Data Into iLife Applications

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    Did you know that when you add an image to iPhoto, by default it’s actually copied into your iPhoto Library? Let’s say you download an image from the internet to a folder on you Mac. Later you want to add the image to iPhoto, so you drag the image from the folder and into iPhoto.…

  • RAM Disk under OS X

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    by Jon, Jon@smalldog.com (written by Jon, posted by Ed) RAM disks could be easily created in the Classic MacOS, going all the way back to System 6. Many users would copy their System Folders to a RAM disk to keep the hard drive spun down and maximize battery life. A 14” Wallstreet running 8.6 off…

  • Quotas, quotas and more quotas…

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    Apple Mail does an amazing job of managing SPAM, integrating with iPhoto and Address Book and helping users stay organized. Just as keeping your files organized on your Mac can help you keep your hard-drive from becoming too full, keeping your inbox organized can help you keep your mail server as empty as possible. One…