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Disable the Caps Lock key

To disable the Caps Lock key, select Apple Menu → System Preferences and click the Keyboard & Mouse icon. After the preferences appear, select the Keyboard tab and click the Modifier Keys button. A dialog sheet will slide out revealing several pop-up menus. Click the pop-up menu at the top labeled Caps Lock then choose [...]

Add a birthday field to Address Book

Remembering the birthdays of family and friends is important. If you’re like me and have trouble remembering last Tuesday, you’ll appreciate the flexibility of Address Book to include optional fields, including the birthday field. Here’s how.

Quickly highlight the Safari address field

I still see a lot of people drag their mouse to highlight a long URL address in their browser. Stop the madness! There are two better ways to do this for both mouse types and keyboard types. Here’s how.

Quickly jump between Safari tabs

When tabbed browsing first arrived, I didn’t think it was that big a deal. Nowadays, I’d find it difficult to return to non-tabbed browsing. Here’s an easy way to jump from tab to tab.

Email a webpage to a friend

Let’s say you’ve just found a killer webpage that you’d like to share with your friend. You’ve seen those “Send to a friend” links on websites allowing you to email the hyperlink to a friend, right? You’re on a Mac, life is better than that. Using the Safari Web Browser, instead of just sending your [...]

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