Mail Just Got a Whole Lot Better!

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In previous apple operating systems adding a new mail account (e.g. Yahoo! Gmail etc.). In OS 10.5, there is a new automatic set up account button! Open Mail, and go to preferences, accounts, and then the little plus button at the bottom.

Then it will show you a window like this…

Notice the “Automatically set up account” button…

Silent Volume Control

If you are ever in a public place, staff meeting  or whatever this feature comes in handy…

Every time you raise or lower the volume, it makes a “bloop” sound, you can turn that off by going to system preferences…or you  can hold down the shift key while lowering or raising the volume to not play that sound.

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New Feature in Address Book!

In OS 10.5 (Leopard), Address Book has some new cool features including the pictures.

After you take the picture, you can click the effect button to the right of the shutter button, and believe it or not, there is more effecs than Photo Booth. Here are some:

Merry Christmas,

New Features in Photo Booth!

If you have Leopard, you will see that Photo Booth has some new features including multiple pictures capture, movie recording, build in green screen, no countdown capture, and no flash! To turn off the flash simply press the shift key while clicking on the Shutter button. To turn off the countdown,  hold down the option button and click on the Shutter button. To have no flash or countdown, hold down shift and option and then click on the Shutter button.

Leopard Space Bar!

Here is a cool little feature in Leopard: Quickview. It really saves a lot of time, specially if it is a Microsoft file or a Adobe file etc. Well, if you need to see it a little more, click on the file and hit (space bar).

Here is what it looks like when you are playing a movie in quickview:

Here is what it looks like when you hit the spacebar:

-or with the the background-

(Special thanks to the Spencers, one of my favorite magicians)

New Features on the New Dock…

Everything Apple does just keeps getting better (as usual). For instance, with the new dock, (which I don’t like the new dock as much) there is a new feature that shows you what programs are open! All open programs will have a new little blue light/reflection under the application icon.

Lets zoom in

See that little blue light at the bottom of the picture?

Comments? Questions? Let me know!

Searching Leopard for Sherlock?

I’m sad to announce that Sherlock-the program that allows you to look up flights, ebay items, and much more-is missing! Apple did not announce the retirement of the program officially, put upon installing the new OS, it seems to delete the program, and on top of that it is not mentioned anywhere on the Apple website. I have tried to copy it on to my compute from others, but it doesn’t seem to work. If anyone got it to copy please let me know in the comments!