From the category archives:

Usability

Check out the Preferences Pane for the four Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage). They all look different and behave differently.

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7 Missing Features from the iPhone 3G

by Carlos Granier-Phelps

Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G puts to rest all the crazy rumors about new features it may include. Here are seven features I was waiting for but never materialized.

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How to Send Keynote Presentations

by Carlos Granier-Phelps

Ever tried emailing a Keynote presentation? Uploading it? FTP? The progress counter just stays there, counting, but nothing ever gets uploaded.
The problem lies within Apple’s .key file format. Keynote files are actually folders (or Packages, as Apple likes to call them) containing all the different files used in the presentation.
Right-click on any Keynote file and [...]

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I recently upgraded my browser to Firefox 3.0B2 and, while importing my previous bookmarks, inadvertently deleted the Places folder.
Firefox 3 offers new Smart Folders that automatically track stuff like your Most Visited Pages, Recently Starred Pages, Recently Used Tags, etc. These folders require a special syntax to create them, but I was unable to find [...]

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Gmail quietly increases storage space

by Carlos Granier-Phelps

Gmail’s free storage has just gone up to around 4GB. I’m not quite sure when this occurred, but this morning my storage gauge indicated 70% full, which was considerably less than normal. I double checked, and it turns out Google added about 1GB of additional space to my Gmail account.

What about your Gmail [...]

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Flock 1.0 looks very promising

by Carlos Granier-Phelps

If you’re a social network junkie, following twitter, facebook, flickr, youtube…
If you’re constantly sending urls, photos and videos to your online friends…
If you like having multiple tabs open at the same time with your favorite websites…
If you blog…
If you use del.icio.us or ma.gnolia to save your favorite urls…
Basically, if you like to browse-and-socialize, then Flock [...]

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Adobe Lightroom Inconsistencies

by Carlos Granier-Phelps

A bug in Adobe Lightroom 1.1 makes thumbnail images disappear from the Library module.

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Mozy Backup Inconsistencies

by Carlos Granier-Phelps

I’ve been using Mozy Backup on my Mac for a while now. It apparently works invisibly in the background which is good (hassle-free) but also quite dangerous if things don’t go as expected. I haven’t had the need to retrieve anything from Mozy’s online backup -though my friends tell me it works really well, but [...]

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This may not work for everyone, but it worked for me… so I’m sharing it with a “your-mileage-may-vary” license.
Google recently updated the interface for Google Analytics. As usual, not everyone gets the upgraded interface at the same time, as Google likes to roll put their upgrades incrementally.
I track three different accounts through Google Analytics and [...]

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