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Voice Announce Your Buddies in iChat
Hear who is available
iChat Preferences
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When one of your buddies becomes available in iChat, you hear a sort of "whooshing" sound, It is quiet and subtle and doesn't interrupt your work. The problem is that you have to check your Buddy List to see who just became available.

You can very easily change the notification so that your Mac speaks the name of your buddy when they become available.

 

Taming Your Bookmarks
Use folders to organize your bookmarks
Create folders for your bookmarks
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It doesn't take long for your Bookmarks Menu to get very long. If you are always choosing Bookmarks / Add bookmark, you need to do a bit of housekeeping to keep that list in check.
 
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Apple Updates me.com for MobileMe users
Access anywhere
me.com Mail
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Apple recently updated me.com, the web access to email, calendars, contacts, web galleries, iDisk and Find my iPhone for MobileMe users. While the changes aren't revolutionary, they do improve on the me.com experience.
 
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Sending iCal Events Via Email
Letting people know
Adding an appointment to an email.
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If you have an event to announce, you can send Events directly from iCal into an email message.
 
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Hiding Photos in iPhoto
Don't show unwanted pictures
X Hides the photo
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I just can't help myself. I won't delete photos from iPhoto no matter how bad they are.

This habit is further exacerbated by the fact that when I take photos I usually take 4 or 5 pix of the same shot to make sure I get a good one.

 
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