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Kai Nehm

What if iChat was one window? - 3 views

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    "I'm finding more and more that the best way to design desktop apps is to imagine you're building them for iOS"
Jeff Johnson

How to disable the built-in iSight Camera - OS X Daily - 0 views

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    Most new consumer Macs come with a built-in iSight camera which can be used for all sorts of fun from video chatting in iChat, horsing around in Photo Booth, to third party apps like Gawker. Despite these fun and harmless uses, there are some security concerns with having a built-in camera particularly in academic and institutional settings, and because of this some System Administrators have taped covers over the iSight and even removed them from the machines entirely. Thankfully, there's a much easier way to disable the built-in iSight camera, all you have to do is move a file.
Bakari Chavanu

Gmail power tools | Business Center | Working Mac | Macworld - 0 views

  • Gmail changed all that. Google’s free Web-based e-mail service offers a so-good-you-forget-it’s-there spam filter, multi-gigabytes of storage, custom addresses, and more, all for free.
  • On the Gmail Labs settings page (click on Settings, then select the Labs tab), you’ll find a list of more than 40 experimental Gmail features which you can selectively enable or disable. Google warns that these features may “change, break, or disappear” at any time, but I think a few of them are well worth the risk:
  • Canned Responses If you find yourself typing the same message over and over, you can instead type it once, save it
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  • Multiple inboxes You don’t have to stick with the default inbox view. You can instead stack additional groups of messages—all messages with a certain label, or drafts, or all messages from your spouse, for example—beside, above, or below your main Gmail inbox. This multiple inbox view is particularly effective if you have a widescreen display.
  • Mailplane
  • Gmail’s built-in mail fetcher lets you consolidate all your POP3 e-mail accounts into your Gmail inbox. In Gmail’s Settings, on the Accounts and Import tab, click on Add POP3 e-mail account. From there, you can enter your other accounts’ credentials; they’ll then appear in your Gmail inbox
  • Voice and video chat You can skip Skype or iChat entirely and chat via voice and video from inside Gmail. You’ll need a microphone, iSight or other Web cam, and the free voice and video plug-in (compatible with OS X 10.4 and above).
  • Managing Gmail deprives you of one (evil but necessary) feature of a desktop client: new mail notifications. You can remedy that by downloading the free Google Notifier for Mac to
  • Forgotten Attachment Detector When you compose an e-mail that promises a document and hit send without attaching the file, this embarrassment-saver asks if you meant to attach a file first.
Jeff Johnson

Back to My Mac Leads to Recovery of Stolen Mac - 0 views

  • A clever Mac user who had her laptop stolen led the police to the alleged burglars using Back to My Mac. Three roommates in White Plains, N.Y., had about $5,000 worth of computer and entertainment equipment stolen 27-Apr-08. Then this last Tuesday, one victim who works at an Apple Store, Kait Duplaga, received a text message from a friend, who, spotting her on iChat, thought she'd recovered her computer.
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