Use these quick hacks to use Google as a dictionary. 1. If you only want a quick word definition, prepend your Google search with define: For instance, https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=define:animal will give you a quick dictionary definition, followed by normal search results. Use define:search-term to get a quick dictionary definition 2. If you want a more complete definition…
Easily address email messages to large groups using your iPhone’s native Mail app. This trick even works with the Camera app.
Check out the Preferences Pane for the four Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage). They all look different and behave differently.
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.
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…
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…
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 account?…
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…
A bug in Adobe Lightroom 1.1 makes thumbnail images disappear from the Library module.