Previously we looked at where we meet our contacts from Address Book again. Today we will find out, how to create and update our existing contact base - without opening Address Book - or create an appointment right from Apple Mail - without iCal.
Do you remember those old days, when you had a dictionary and a thesaurus on your shelf, waiting for you to grab them and look up stuff. Then the internet came along and Wikipedia did all that away. Now correct writing as well as looking up meanings is a matter of using a search engine.
Don’t get me wrong, Wikipedia is great but there is a real dictionary that is at your hand, right there on your Mac. What about a quick look at a word? What about a quick substitution for that word, in order not to use it again in two straight sentences?
Meet Dictionary - Mac OS X’s dictionary application. It includes a thesaurus, a special Apple-related dictionary and it can even look up stuff on wikipedia (directly from the application itself - without the website).
As you might have seen already, in every application menu, there this menu item, called Services.
It’s one of the less prominent features of Mac OS X, but today we will see, how Services can make your life easier and more convenient, all from the application menu.
Not too long ago, we were checking out Dashboard and were exploring widgets. Leopard introduces a cool, new feature called Web Clips. It allows you to create your own widgets from any content on the web.
Previously we looked at, how to enter data into iCal and Address Book. Entering all your contacts sounds like a boring thing. Yes, it is boring!
The good thing is: you don’t have to do it!
A really quick way to change the time of a meeting in iCal is to create it and then move the mouse close to the upper or lower edge of the event, so the mouse cursor turns into a double arrow.
Then just click and hold down the mouse button and move it up- or downwards to adjust the time.In order to rearrange a meeting, just drag it around on your schedule. No need to adjust the details, just move your mouse over an event, click and hold and drag the event around. Release when it has reached the right position.So, 2 quick and easy tips - exactly what we like.
We are back, taking on iCal, the calender application of Mac OS X.
In the following we show you, how to use iCal for planing your schedule and how to make birthdays of your contacts in Address Book automatically show up in iCal (and thus giving you more free space in your brain)
Yesterday we looked at how to increase our screen space. Today we will take it one step further and create more space in our brain. Well, more like freeing up space for more important things.
Having trouble, remembering birthdays, telephone numbers, and so on? Don’t worry, meet the powerful combination of Address Book and iCal.