Halloween is coming! Do not miss the opportunity to send unique Halloween greeting cards to your friends, family members, colleagues or others. These free Stationery templates from iPresentee are designed to be used with Apple Mail and include five awesome templates: Happy Pumpkins, Bloody Letter, Halloween Coffee, Skeleton and Hot Pumpkins. If there is ever a time for the beauty of ugliness and the delight of terror, Halloween must be it! Mail Stationery templates require any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.
With all the junk mail running around out there, having a good management system in place is a must. While most ISP’s have some pretty good filters as a first line of defense (check with your ISP for more info), Apple Mail has it’s own built in filtering which must be set up. Here we’ll take a look at enabling it and explore some of the customizable options……
If you are into Twitter, you need a Twitter client. My favorite is Tweetie from atebits. Just download this gem of an application and set it up with your Twitter account info. It’s that easy! atebits also has Tweetie for the iPhone.
Apple has released Safari 3.2.3 for Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS X Tiger, and Microsoft’s Windows XP and Vista. This update is recommended for all Safari users and provides a number of performance and security enhancements. Safari 3.2.3 is available via Software Update and also as a standalone installer.
Musical Notations and Mathematical Symbols. Currency, Geometrical Shapes, Special Punctuation and Braille Patterns. The list goes on and on. Symbols and Special Characters. We know what they are and we know our computer has the capability to present them, but how??
OS X 10.5 Leopard brought us some pretty cool features. One of these features is Screen Sharing which does exactly what it’s name implies; share your screen remotely with another Leopard user and vice versa. I use Screen Sharing as a trouble shooting tool to assist clients in other states and at times, other countries. It is also useful as a tool for collaborating on projects. Here’s how to use it…….
coconutBattery is a tool that shows you the current maximum capacity of your laptop’s battery in relation to the original capacity your battery had when it left the factory. You also get information about the battery: loadcycles (how often did you fully load your battery), the current charger (coconutBattery warns you if you plugged in a wrong charger for your laptop) and information about the age of your Mac. coconutBattery is not something you’ll necessarily use on a regular basis, but it’s a great tool to periodically check the condition of you battery.
