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Dear Aunt TUAW: Where's my Lozenge?

by Erica Sadun (Jul 24th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I miss the lozenge. You know what I mean? The chicklet thing that used to be at the top right of my Finder windows. Click it and it would show the sidebar. Click again, sidebar gone. How can I show and hide the sidebar in Lion? Your loving nephew, Michael N. Dear ...

Lion: Restoring Safari's download list keyboard shortcut

by Steven Sande (Jul 23rd, 2011)

Oh, those poor Mac OS X Lion developers. They work their tails off to get a new version of OS X out to us, and then people immediately find things that they liked better in the old version. Red Sweater Software founder and über-geek Daniel Jalkut found that the loss of a keyboard ...

Apple TV 101: Create a genius playlist on Apple TV

by Matt Tinsley (Jul 22nd, 2011)

Of late, the Apple TV hasn't received all that much attention here at TUAW. We can only assume that's because it simply does what it says on the tin -- it just works! But the other day, I found myself trying to do something quite simple on my Apple TV, and it wasn't "just working!" Using ...

AirDrop: Lion's new way to transfer files

by Steven Sande (Jul 21st, 2011)

One very cool new feature in OS X Lion is AirDrop. It's a way to leverage your home or office Wi-Fi network to send files to others who are also running Lion by just dragging and dropping those files onto an icon representing the other person. In this short post, I'll show you how AirDrop works ...

Setting your Apple ID in Lion

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 21st, 2011)

While it only affects a few functions now, like AirDrop, your Apple ID will be even more important when iCloud is available. To set your Apple ID in Lion (provided you have one), go to System Preferences and click on Users & Groups. There you will see your login information plus a button to ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help revert scrolling to normal

by Erica Sadun (Jul 20th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I hate Lion's new reverse scrolling feature. I mean I really really really really really really really really really hate it. Fix it for me and I'll buy you prune juice. Your loving niece, Sophie Dear Sophie, Auntie's still new to Lion but Uncle Steve was quick to ...

Dev Juice: Help me recover my beta partition

by Erica Sadun (Jul 18th, 2011)

Dear Dev Juice, I was in the Lion beta program. Now that 10.7 is about to release I want to reclaim the small partition I added to my laptop that I was using to test it. How do I do this? Shawn Dear Shawn, Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility) makes it easy to recover ...

Post to Google+ on your iPhone using DoAT

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 15th, 2011)

Reading something interesting on your iPhone and frustrated you can't easily post it to Google+? Now there's a solution that takes some of the pain out of using Google+ on the iPhone. No, it's not the native client from Google. It's DoAT, a content aggregating and reading app. DoAT is one of ...

Open the Mac App Store in your browser

by Erica Sadun (Jul 14th, 2011)

I was up late last night building a Mac App Store scraper. In the process I discovered how to browse the store in Safari. Without further ado, let me share the geek. It turns out you can spoof curl with the Mac App Store user agent to access its data. You'll need to use Terminal for this ...

Sharing Instagram photos on Google+ automatically

by Steven Sande (Jul 14th, 2011)

Instagram (free) is a lot of fun, although it's often criticized as being the "auto-tune for photography." Google+ is the new social networking flavor of the week, so it's natural that the two services should get together. Wired's Gadget Lab has cooked up a recipe for more Instagram enjoyment by ...

Dev Juice: How do I autocomplete in Xcode 4?

by Erica Sadun (Jul 5th, 2011)

Dear Dev Juice, I just moved from Xcode 3 to Xcode 4. How can I make autocomplete give me a template? I type -(void)deal and the drop down pops up. tab just completes the dealloc word. I want it to pop out the template for me. Space bar doesn't work, enter, escape, nothing anymore. I need ...

On re-purposing the increasingly useless eject key

by Steven Sande (Jul 1st, 2011)

The eject key sits in the upper right corner of most modern Apple keyboards. On my big iMac with its SuperDrive, it occasionally gets pressed when I need to kick out a backup DVD, but the rest of the time it sits alone. It's even worse on a MacBook Air. With no SuperDrive to speak of, the eject ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me disable in-line tool tips and advertising

by Erica Sadun (Jun 30th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, There are works [sic] that are highlighted and linked to pop-ups when I go to webpages and pass my mouse pointer over them and I would like that to stop. Your loving nephew, Sabon Dear Sabon, Auntie isn't entirely sure whether you're talking about tool tips or in-line ...

Mac 101: Using Keychain Access to remember the password you forgot

by Steven Sande (Jun 29th, 2011)

One of the unsung joys of being a Mac consultant is getting emails from clients with problems that aren't critical enough warrant a billable office visit but still need attention. This morning, I heard from client who needed to add two Macs onto the office AirPort network but couldn't remember ...

Ten ways to replace iWeb and MobileMe hosting

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2011)

Yesterday, we reported on a rumor that Apple's website creation software, iWeb, is about a year away from obsolescence, along with MobileMe's hosting of iWeb sites. An iWeb user allegedly sent Apple CEO Steve Jobs an email asking if he should start looking for another website builder and a new ...