BlackBerry Tips Round-Up
Dave Mabe, author of BlackBerry Hacks, has some new articles up at SmartPhoneToday: BlackBerry OS 4.1 Enhances Compose Screen – Link Berry 411 – Mobile Search For BlackBerry – Link Related BlackBerry Hacks –
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Three Solid Gmail Productivity Tips
Matt Cutts shares three solid Gmail productivity tips to help keep your inbox under control, including keeping mailing lists out of there (using filters), prioritizing messages (using Greasemonkey and persistent searches), and excluding messages from certain accounts (using filters and labels).
Teach via IM with One-Way Video Chat
Click To Play Over at O’Reilly’s Mac DevCenter, Erica Sadun points out a little-known (at least to me) feature in the current version of iChat: By control-clicking (right-clicking) a buddy’s name, a contextual menu pops up offering the option to invite that person to a one-way video chat. This means that they can watch your […]
Apple Lisa Emulator Released
Forget Y2K or the 2007 Daylight Savings Time change, fire up an Apple Lisa, and experience life as it was meant to be lived between 1981 and 1995. Ted Hodges of Low End Mac has a complete writeup on the recently-released Lisa emulator: I had heard about the Lisa, but I had never had a […]
Sleep Your Mac by Email
With a combination of Automator actions, one line of Apple Script, and a Mail rule, you can make your Mac sleep by sending your account an email with “sleeper” in the subject line. Of course, you could use this same trick to do a number of things via email remote control. Sleep your mac by […]
Speed Up Mail In OS X
Cory over at BoingBoing writes: The Mail.app fan-site Hawk Wings has a great tip for Mail.app users — a simple command that many are swearing by as a means of evincing a gigantic speedup in Mail.app’s performance. If you’re suffering through the same hell I lived with back in my PowerBook days, you might give […]
Howto: Recover Text From Blurred Images
Every once in a while, you’ll come across an image or video where sensitive information has been redacted using a blur or mosaic filter. Just take a look at license plates on COPS or do a search for “google check” and you’ll see a few common examples. Putting an image through a blur filter is […]
