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Hereis how: Make sure you already have a Desktop printer. If you donit, check out my Quick Tip on how to set one up. Drag the folder you want a contents list for onto the Desktop printer. Drag a folder onto a printer to print a file list.

Boot Camp beta 1.2 expired on September 30, so users that didnit upgrade to version 1.4 are already past their license expiration date. The company hasnit stated whether or not the version 1.4 beta will stop working once Leopard ships, or if users will simply be outside of the license agreement if they continue to…

Whenever Apple comes out with a major new release of its OS, some Macintosh hardware gets left behind. While Leopard includes support for PowerPC Macs, itis worth looking at Appleis history to see if Mac OS X 10.6 will abandon the entire PowerPC line, according to Daniel Dilger at Roughly Drafted. “Previous versions of Apple?s…

By default, your Macis Dictionary application shows spelling and definitions. Hereis how to change that default to the thesaurus: Launch Dictionary. Itis in your Applications folder. Choose Dictionary > Preferences. The top listed option is always the default in Dictionary.

Hereis how: If iPhoto is running quit the application. Command-Option double click iPhoto to launch it. iPhoto will launch and then display the Rebuild Photo Library dialog. Rebuild the photosi small thumbnails should already be selected. If you canit see a photo unless it is blown up to full size, check Rebuild all of the…

iPhoto Library Manger lets users divide their image library into multiple libraries, copy images and albums between libraries, merge libraries together, and extract or rebuild corrupt iPhoto image libraries. iPhoto Library Manger is available for download at the Fat Cat Software Web site, and is priced at US$19.95. The update is free for registered users.

Just like you can drag an HTML document into a Safari window to see what the page looks like, you can also drag graphics into a Safari window to see the image. Even better, Safari shows the image name and dimensions in its title bar. Drag an image into a Safari window to see its…

iWeb 2.0.1 is part of the iLife i08 application suite that also includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand. iLife i08 is priced at US$79, and the update is free for iWeb 2 users.

Dwight Silverman at the Houston Chronicle has provided a sobering list of things to attend to when first taking a Vista PC out of the box. Itis a long list. Every new computer requires some intial setup and customization. Some of it can be pleasureable, some of it is necessary and tedious bookkeeping and some…

Hereis how: Head over to the .Mac Web site with your browser. Log into your .Mac account to change settings.

InfoExpress announced additional support for Mac OS X client systems on Tuesday for its Network Access Control (NAC) system, Dynamic NAC. In addition, Linux and Vista support was added. TMO interviewed Stacey Lum, CEO of InfoExpress recently. He provided some background on NAC. Basically, businesses need to be able to control client computer access to…

The great thing about Verbose Mode was that it stripped away the friendly startup interface and simply listed everything that happened as your Mac started up and loaded its software components. Once the startup process reached a certain point, you were returned to the familiar graphic interface. Now that we are several versions past the…

InterMapper 4.6 also added a Cisco IP SLA probe, a new authentication server component that supports Kerberos, LDAP, RADIUS, ActiveDirectory, and IAS directories, new probes for Motorola PTP400 and PTP600 wireless equipment, VLAN ID information for the Cisco or 802.1Q Bridge MIB, and more. InterMapper 4.6 is priced starting at US$495, and is available at…

The new version also updated the interface, added the ability to bookmark map locations, improved Google Earth support, and added Bluetooth support for Wintec WBT-100, WBT-200 and WBT-201 devices. HoudahGeo 1.2 is priced at US$29.95, and is available for download at the Houdah Software Web site. The update is free for version 1 users.

The security-related fixes impact both the Mac OS X and Windows versions of QuickTime, and address situations where maliciously crafted media files could cause unexpected application termination, or allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The update is available via Appleis Software Update application, or as a stand-alone installer for Mac OS X and Windows.…

announced on Thursday the immediate availability of Caboodle 1.1.2. The new version adds compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. Other minor fixes include better ruler handling within entries. Caboodle 1.1.2

Echo One One of the features that makes Mac OS X so usable, considering the underlying UNIX foundation, is the Finder interface. The Finder takes the thousands of files on your hard drive, and present them in a way that allows you to do all sorts of cool things with your Mac. Normally, a user…

Ambrosia Software announced on Thursday that its screen recording software, Snapz Pro, has been updated to version 2.1. The new version is a Universal Application and is compatible with the WWDC Leopard Release. Other improvements include: greatly improved capture performance, support for QuickTime compression sessions — enabling H.264 multipass encoding, and the (restored) ability to…

WiFind adds some useful information to the AirPort menu including signal strength for the networks in range of your Mac, whether or not those networks are password protected, and what channel the networks are transmitting on. WiFind gives you the AirPort menu Apple should have made.

The updated version added support for IMAP email accounts, iCal event and task creation from within Mail, and tag viewing in List View. It also improved support for Smart Mailboxes, Mailis search tools, and AppleScript. Mailtags is priced at US$29.95, and is available for download at the Indev Software Web site.