Apple Krazy

You have would have been long waiting to see whether the App you downloaded  for the iPhone/iTouch was worth the money ( Deal or Not - worth the bucks or Crap).

A simple freeware is now out!. This App should be the solution to it. Lets you track comments and feedback on the Application downloaded from Appstore. Try it and give us a shout !                     

Link : AppManager

Refurbished MacBook Air 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo on sale, only $999

Specs on the air

13.3-inch glossy widescreen display

2GB memory

80GB 4200-rpm PATA hard drive

Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Built-in iSight Camera

     

Times are hard and lay offs around the corner. If you think you have an impressive resume and real hardcore tricks under your collar, then why refrain from applying to Apple.

Apple constantly hires in the areas of Software engineering, Sales, Marketing, HR, Legal, Mac Hardware engineering, iPod Engineering etc. If you think you have a less than impressive resume and can talk your way through people and love Macs - Apply for Apple store Genius bar and rep positions.

Economy is bad, so its good to earn at-least $10/hr and have a McDee meal !

Refurbished MacBook 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - White

- Quality products/great prices
- Stringent refurbishment process prior to sale
- Covered by Apple’s One-Year Limited Warranty
- AppleCare Protection Plan can be purchased
- Supplies are limited 

To learn more about Apple Certified Refurbished Products
CLICK HERE. 

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Brasso, a house-hold product, has been proven to work on plastic and metal surfaces, such as iPods, tvs, monitors, and the MacBook. After reading about the guy who removed nano scratches with Brasso (a mild abrasive), I was intrigued and knew that I had to try it out. As per Todd’s example, I used a micro-fiber cloth and concentrated mostly on my Macbook outside cover, which I rubbed for ~15 minutes. Surprisingly, all of the scratches that were there had disappeared — I was amazed. After applying the Brasso it genuinely looked new. Some say that even applying it on the LCD screen is safe (I wouldn’t personally - just does not make logical sense to me!). If you are hesitant here are other sources that report its safety: 

http://todd.dailey.info/archives/200…can-of-brasso/

http://craggyair.blogspot.com/2006/0…nd-brasso.html

http://playlistmag.com/forums/ubbthr…view=collapsed

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/brasso.htm

http://justinblanton.com/2005/10/ipo…nvisibleshield

http://www.ehmac.ca/ipod-itunes-ipho…your-ipod.html

http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/2…scratched.htm

by Adam Pash

If Amazon’s hot holiday seller list is any indication, a lot of you got new Macs this holiday season. If you switched to a Mac from a PC, you’ve probably noticed that there are a lot of differences between the two.

When I bought my first Mac a few short months ago, it took a while to figure out how to do all the stuff I already knew how to do on my PC. While it’s my job to spend time figuring that sort of thing out, there’s no need for you to waste your precious time figuring out the minutia of a new operating system. To ease this transition for all of the new Mac owners out there, I’ve put together a quick guide for Mac newbies making the big switch.

What follows is a round-up of everything that stuck out to me when I made the move to my first Mac. I’m still a dual-OS fellow, but after I figured out the ins and outs of my Mac, it’s by far the place I find easiest to get things done. If you’re delving into Macs for the first time, the following should come in handy.

Mac OS X Keyboard symbols

You’re a lifehacker and you know all the good keyboard shortcuts on your Windows PC. So the first thing you’ll want to do is get familiar with keyboard shortcuts on your Mac. This seems easy enough - except for the fact that Macs use a strange and foreign set of hieroglyphics for their shortcut keys. Some of the most familiar shortcuts are:

The Apple/Command key is the main modifier on your Mac. Contrary to its Windows counterpart, the Windows key, the Command key does much of the work that the Control key does on a Windows PC. So don’t go hitting the Apple key expecting a system menu to pop up out of nowhere, because it ain’t gonna happen. Instead, plan on using this for your most common keyboard shortcuts.

Like I said above, the Control key on the Mac isn’t used in the same way as the Control key on a Windows PC. I use it most often when I’m “right-clicking” on my Mac - often referred to as Ctrl-Click. The Ctrl key also comes in handy in a lot of other ways, like the Ctrl-Tab tab switching in Firefox.

I use the Alt/Option key most often to skip words in a document (and highlight words when used in conjunction with the Shift key) - much like the Ctrl-Arrow functions work on a PC. Like the Mac Control Shortcut, the Option key finds its way into your shortcut workflow here and there (for example, it’s also very handy for accenting letters), but not as often as the Command key.

Though Command, Control, and Option are the three main modifiers/symbols you’ll see on your Mac, you’ll certainly stumble onto several other cryptic communiqués when you’re trying to figure out a new shortcut, like the wacky Escape symbol and the big upcase Shift arrow. For a more comprehensive list of the Mac’s keyboard symbols, check out this handy reference table.

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Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard, introduces a new feature to the Mac Operating System: more space to work and play. It’s been available before now by installing separate software, but the Spaces feature, as it is called, is built in to Leopard.

This Tip is the first of several about Spaces.

Activate Spaces

To activate Spaces go to the Exposé & Spaces System Preference, then click on the Spaces tab, and check the Enable Spaces box. I also suggest you ensure Show Spaces in menu bar is checked. By default the Mac gives you 4 Spaces, but you can use more or fewer if you prefer.

Having explained how to activate Spaces, I want to explain what they are, and how to use them.

What Spaces is

Imagine you’re at home, sitting a the kitchen table, sorting through old boxes of photos (the kind that are on paper). The table is covered in photos.

After a while you decide to take a coffee break and read the paper. Instead of balancing coffee, biscuits and newspaper on top of the photos, you set yourself up at a different table.

The courier arrives with a parcel, so you take it to yet another table for unpacking.

That’s Spaces.

On your computer it would look like this: you’re working with your iPhoto albums (in Space 1) when you decide to take a break and surf some news websites. You leave iPhoto running and flip over to Space 2 where you open some web pages, and check your email.

You’ve received some emailed attachments, so you download them, and flip over to Space 3 to open the MS Word file into Pages.app and the Excel file into Numbers.app.

For each activity you have a clean, fresh, uncluttered work space where you can spread out and focus on what you’re doing.

How to use Spaces

There are no rules about how to use Spaces. No-one says you have to use a particular application in Space 1 or Space 2, so it’s up to you to explore.

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Editor’s note: The following is a post from Dave Taylor, a blog partner of ours who answers reader questions.

My sister and I share a Mac computer and I’m tired of her looking at my files. Is there some way I can protect or hide my folders without downloading any software she’d notice?

Dave’s Answer:

Seems to me that the very best possible solution is for you and your sister to set up different accounts on your Mac, actually. That’s one of the real benefits of Mac OS X (and, for that matter, Windows too).

You can do that by simply going to Apple –> System Preferences… –> Accounts and setting up an account for her. Then simply ensure that you log out when you’re done with the computer each time and she won’t be able to get to any of your files and you’ll be safe from having her mess with your preferences, settings, etc.

No? That’s not what you want to do?

Okay, I’ll give you a couple of neat Terminal tricks that can help you out, one that lets you make a folder closed to everyone and another that makes it disappear completely until you make it reappear.

In both cases, you’ll need to launch Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal.app. It’ll start out in your account “home” directory, which you can check by typing pwd. Move to the directory where your folder or files lives by typing in cd followed by the name of the directory.

For example, if I wanted to protect a folder on the Desktop, then I’d type in cd Desktop and move there.

Now, to make a folder completely locked and unreadable, simply type in:

$ chmod 000 my-protected-folder

You won’t get any feedback but you’ll end up with something like this (pay particular attention to the “testing123″ folder and how it’s portrayed):

To get back in when you want to, simply go back to the same place with the “cd” command and type in:

$ chmod 775 my-protected-folder

To hide a folder or file completely, simply preface its name with a “.”. For example, to hide “testing123″ I’d rename it “.testing123″:

$ mv testing123 ".testing123”

Wanna get that one back to normal? Go back to the same directory and type in the reverse: mv .testing123 testing123

So there you go, three possible solutions to your problem. Hope one of them works out for you!

My biggest pet peeve is dirty or sticky hands. But even with my problem struggle, my white macbook still gets dirty. You can easily see which keys I use the most.

I’ve tried the specialized products like iKlear but they just didn’t do that great of a job. So, out of frustration, I just raided my cleaning cabinet to see what was in there. (Of course, I did this while my wife was gone. I didn’t want her getting any ideas.)

I pulled out the Glass Plus Wipes and thought they looked as good as anything else.

The back said that they were safe enough for computer screens, but I decided to wipe down my whole machine with it. I fired up the keyboard cleaner appand got my wipe on. It turned out awesome. The keys, mouse, and palm rest are all clean again. And for an added bonus, they all feel like they did when they were new.

So I’m sharing this tip because they worked great for me. And, they are cheap. We got ours at Albertson’s for $3.99 Obviously be cautious with your own machine. Maybe try a little corner or key first.