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Sky Watch Screensaver

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sky-watch-sThe march of time is unlikely to be heard, until you take a look at the sky! Can you imagine a watch resting high in the clouds? It does exist: take a look at this new screensaver, where soft skylight is pouring in your rooms from the screen!

I’m usually not enthralled by screensavers and desktop images, but this is pretty cool.

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Right Click in OS X

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findericon3d.jpgWindows users have long been accustomed to using a mouse with right click capability. Mac users have had this functionality available, but it required the purchase of a third party mouse or the use of keyboard commands. With the introduction of Apple’s Mighty Mouse, all of this changed. Now every desktop Mac ships with Apple’s Mighty Mouse giving us “out of the box” multi-button functionality, but you have to set it up. Here’s how….

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Date & Time Preference Pane

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Remember back when you started your new OS X Mac for the first time. You may recall that you answered a series of questions during setup, one series being about time, time zones and dates. Your computer was then automatically configured base upon the answers given. There are however, quite a few more date and time options available to us…..

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Managing The Dock (Part II)

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Welcome back to the Dock!

In Managing The Dock – Part I, we discussed the function of the Dock, adding and deleting icons, and arranging the icons to suit our needs. Now let’s delve a little deeper into further customizing this wonderful tool. In order to do this, we’ll need to explore the Dock’s Preference Pane located in System Preferences.

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Managing The Dock (Part I)

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Welcome to The Dock!

By default, the Dock appears at the bottom of your Mac’s desktop. It contains a customizable row of icons which are basically remote control buttons. These icons allow you to easily open your favorite applications, documents, and folders with a single click. The Dock is also home to your Trash.

Let’s explore some different ways to use and customize the Dock…..

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