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Mac 101: Deduplicating your birthdays in the Facebook era

by Michael Rose (Dec 18th, 2012)

More Mac 101, our ongoing series of tips and tricks for novice Mac users. Adding Facebook integration to the OS X Contacts application was not without controversy; many of us feared an onslaught of @facebook.com email addresses polluting our pristine data. Assuming you can get past that hurdle, ...

Gemini now finds duplicates in iPhoto and iTunes

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 21st, 2012)

Gemini from MacPaw is one of those utilities you don't use every day, but is extremely handy to have around. The OS X software excels at finding duplicate files on internal drives, external drives or network volumes. It scans a folder at lightning speed, while giving you the option to view your ...

Daily Mac App: Gemini finds and removes duplicate files

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 15th, 2012)

After years of buying hard drives and moving files around, digital hoarders like myself eventually wind up with duplicate files all over the place. A few gigabytes here and there can add up, so Gemini aims to help you find and delete duplicate files across devices. It's a beautifully designed app, ...

TUAW Tip: Removing duplicate songs from iTunes

by Cory Bohon (Dec 15th, 2008)

Have you ever been listening your iTunes library and wondered why a song played more than one time? Duplicate songs in your library can be very annoying, and waste precious space on your hard drive. In this TUAW Tip, I'm going to show you how to get rid of duplicates using a built-in feature in ...

Delete iCal duplicate appointments

by Jason Clarke (Jan 4th, 2008)

Isn't it wonderful that Address Book has a function built right in that allows you to merge duplicate entries? This becomes particularly valuable if you use a contact synchronization tool such as Plaxo. It's so useful, you'd think that iCal would have something similar. As you know, if you've run ...