"Unlearning Spelling" in Leopard

I love OS X: it has a built in dictionary that it’s smart enough to know when I’m in Spanish or English mode (depending on my keyboard setup) is great, and the fact that it can learn words is even better. For example, I know that Design is correct, the...

Security Update for 10.5 (2010-002)

Apple just released a Security update for 10.5 and the Mac OS X v10.6.3 update. For more info on the fixes released click here. You can get through the Software Update app on Mac OS.

Keeping your Mac healthy and up to date

Keeping your mac running smoothly is very important for your freelancing. I often see many macs that are not updated to the latest OS (right now, it’s 10.5.7). It’s a very common thing for us designers to avoid updating after we have everything running...

Reading your Hotmail emails from Gmail

So here I was thinking I would have to go checking my Hotmail inbox every now and then, and not being able to download them to Yahoo or Gmail, which I can get on the iPhone or my Mac, but there is a way! I found it! After looking for reference links and ideas, I...

Quick Look Plug-ins for Leopard

There’s just something really handy on Leopard, and that’s Quick Look.  If you are not familiar with that, it’s the ability to see the contents of a file without opening it. Just browsing through the finder, you get to a file, press the space bar and...