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Quick Tip: Cropping in Preview

Cropping images is a really common task for many of us, but how do you do it?  Photoshop?  iWork?  (I know on Windows I always used to use PowerPoint to crop!)

You can actually crop images really easily in preview – That nifty little program included with OS X that keeps surprising us!  Here’s how:

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Quick tip: Magic Trackpad

MagicPrefs

When I first bought my Magic Mouse, I spent some time in the online apple store, looking at all of the reviews and FAQs, which mostly consisted of idiots asking the same question over and over again.  One question did, however, catch my eye:

Can you use the multi-touch mouse as a trackpad?

I thought this was quite an interesting idea.  The mouse has a full multitouch surface, so you would think that it would be possible to integrate this function…

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Quick tip: Tweeting with MagicPrefs

MagicPrefs

MagicPrefs has already been covered in detail on my previous post on the Magic Mouse, but, It’s got a couple of neat new features!

If you have a twitter account, the chances are you own a twitter desktop client.  Over the past six months, we’ve had a look at Tweetie, Echofon and Tweetdeck. (although these are a few of many)

All of these twitter clients share one distinct downfall, however: You must switch to them to tweet.

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Save time on the move with Ejectlet

Ejectlet

If you, like me, are constantly on the move it can waste valuable when you go to pick-up your MacBook to find every USB device ever invented connected to your MacBook.

Of course, you could find your way down to your desktop, and drag each of these drives to your trash can one-by-one to eject them.  That would take a while though.  Wouldn’t it?  Or, you could do the marginally faster method of opening finder and selecting each items eject icon there.

There is a much easier way though. This method reduces the amount of clicks down to, umm.  Two.  All you have to do is select the Ejectlet icon and then Eject all, it sits out of the way in your menu bar.  You can download the Ejectlet free from Apple.

Expose Quick Tip

This is a quick tip that shows you how useful Expose on your Mac can be.