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Combining Face Names in iPhoto
Different names for the same person
Duplicated people
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When you are naming people in Faces in iPhoto, you might make a small change to how you name a certain person. For example, you might name the person "Chris" in one place and "chris" in another. This will result in two different Polaroids on the Faces cork board for the same person, one named "Chris" and one named "chris".

Here's how to fix things.

 

Cool Tools: Fluid
Turning web pages into apps
Fluid is a simple little app that turns a web page into an app that has its own icon on the Dock.

Why would you want that? The best reason that I have found is for web-based email like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail. Rather than have your email in a tab in Safari that gets lost among all of the other tabs, your email has its own window and Dock icon for easy access.

(I'm not going to name names, but I know someone who usually has Yahoo! Mail open in several Safari tabs at once because he opens a new tab and reloads Yahoo! Mail every time he wants to check his mail.)

 
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Creating a Folder from a Group of Items in Safari
Quickly organize files into folders
New Folder with Selection
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Speaking of trying to bring order to chaos, here's a quick little trick to combine a group of files into a new folder in one easy step.
 
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Moving a Tab to a New Window in Safari
Another organizing tip
Pulling out a tab
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I am always looking for ways to bring at least a small amount of order to the chaos that is the open apps, windows and documents on my Mac.

One technique I use is to keep the tabs on a particular Safari window on the same topic or project and use multiple windows in Safari for my different topics or projects.

An easy way to help maintain this technique is to convert a single tab on one Safari window into its own window.

Here's how to turn a tab on the Bookmarks Bar into its own window.

 
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Using the Safari Reading List to Hold URLs to Read Later
A temporary holding place
Reading Liest
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Last week, I wrote a tip about using Stickies to hold URLs (web addresses) so you can find them later. A reader said she was glad that I was giving some attention to the "lowly sticky note."

Stickies are useful and underused, but after that tip went out last week, I remembered that Safari has a built-in tool for holding temporary URLs that itself is underused.

 
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