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If you downloaded and tried the Safari 4 Beta, you may be wondering what happened to the blue progress bar in the Safari address bar. You can make the Safari 4 Beta revert to the old blue indicator – but take a moment to learn more about the new progress indicator.

The Mac OS X Leopard version of Spotlight supports Boolean logic. This doesn’t mean you’re limited to creating complicated AND/NOT/OR queries in the Spotlight search field. You can open the Spotlight window and build a Boolean search using as many of the 145 predefined search attributes as you wish. Here’s how.

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.

You are taking advantage of the Safari bookmark bar, right? This browser feature allows you to store your favorite sites right in the open for easy one-click access. But did you know that you could jump directly to any site on your bookmark bar using a simple keyboard shortcut instead of a mouse click? Here’s [...]

Being able to add your frequently used documents and folders to the Finder sidebar for quick access worked fine until you stuffed it so full, you now spend more time scrolling, than working. This tip won’t reduce your sidebar bloat but it will provide you with another area to overstuff with favorites – the Finder [...]