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19 Votes
Menu Bar on a Secondary Monitor
Posted by
d_tremblay 239 days ago
Finder
If you own a Mac with two monitors and you want to have a menu bar on your second monitor, there is finally a solution for you. SecondBar is available from http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79 and it is a small utility that will let you activate a second menu bar. It won't include all the icons you have in the upper right corner of your main menu bar, however, it will include all the menus from the
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21 Votes
Easily changing sound input and output
Posted by
d_tremblay 283 days ago
Finder
Do you frequently need to change the source of your sound inputs or outputs, but you don't feel like going to the System Preferences panel all the time. With Snow Leopard, there is a very easy way to do it. Just click on the sound icon in the upper right corner of your screen in the menu bar while pressing the ALT key. Instead of having the slider to change the volume of the sound, you will have
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9 Votes
Easily changing the icon of a file / application / folder
Posted by
d_tremblay 311 days ago
Finder
I was looking for a way to change the icon of an application the other day, and I couldn't believe how the solution was simple. First, I had to find the icon I really wanted. Once I found a file that had an appropriate icon, I did a Command-I (to get info). I clicked on the icon of the file and pressed Command-C (for copy). Then I went the file that needed the icon to be changed. I did a Command-
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7 Votes
Trimming in QuickTime X!
QuickTime X was really stripped down compared to all the features that were in QuickTime 7. One feature that stayed is "Trim". The shortcut "Command - T" will bring up the trimming feature. It fits exactly with the "iMovie" look that is being adopted throughout iLife and the OS.
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9 Votes
Color Gamma in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I immediately noticed it as soon as I upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.5, but everyone said I was seeing things. Google finally confirmed my suspicions, that the color gamma changed in 10.6 compared to 10.5. The default setting in 10.5 is 1.8 and it is 2.2 in 10.6 for the color gamma. The new default is the same than what Windows has been using for years. What this means is that websites will finally
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