For Mac Eyes Only Special – Barry’s China Trip

August 7, 2009 by

Like any good Mac-geek would, our own Barry Fulk recently took a trip to China and brought all his Mac gear with him … most of it anyway. So I thought it might be fun to have a quick chat with Barry to see if he’d share some nuggets of wisdom learned on his journey for traveling with your Mac and iPhone.

Links to Know:
> Barry’s Blog
> Photo Gallery
> Apple Store Beijing

Adoption Links:
> The Cradle
> Holt International

Useful Apps for Mac and iPhone:
> Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook
> The Beijing Subway Map
> The Singapore Subway Map
> iLife ’09

Barry’s Gear:
> iPhone 3GS
> MacBook
> Nikon D40X
> Canon VIXIA HF S10
> AirPort Express
> My Passport by Western Digital
> Apple USB charger
> Gorillapod SLR-Zoom
> Mophie Juice Pack Air
> Kensington International all-in-one travel plug adapter

Contact Us:
> mike AT formaceyesonly.com
> barry AT formaceyesonly.com
> Twitter:
>> @formaceyesonly
>> @fulkb
> ESC!Casts Hotline – 1 (815) 981-4224

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Use this week’s tip to add a System Preferences stack to your Dock.

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Quick Tip #064

Have you ever wanted to add a hidden system folder, like the Trash, to your Dock as a stack? This week’s tip tells you how.

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OS X’s default volume control not fine enough for you? Use this week’s tip to increase the number of volume levels from 16 to 64 steps.

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A couple quick tips for managing your Dock’s behavior, plus a listener tip for quickly hiding the Dock with one keystroke.

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Quick Tip #061

A few quick ways to make the most of Address Book’s mapping features.

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For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly – "Add Dock Spacers"

June 26, 2009 by

Quick Tip #060

Add spacers to your Dock to help keep things organized.

To add a spacer to the APPLICATIONS side of the Dock:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’

To add a spacer to the DOCUMENTS side:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’

After issuing either command, type in killall Dock to see the changes.

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Quick Tip #059

Too many Apple remotes? Keep things organized by pairing them with your Mac and Apple TV.

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For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly – "Searching System Files"

June 12, 2009 by

Quick Tip #058

How to tell OS X to search your Mac’s system files when using the Find command.

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For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly – "Open from Quick Look"

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Quick Tip #057

For Leopard users:
Use Quick Look to open files on your Mac.

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