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Merging Multiple Mailboxes on Mac Mail (MMMoMM)

If you are an Apple lover like myself, it was hard to resist buying a subscription to MobileMe for its array of features. The whole time, I had an account with gmail that most everyone knew was my address. It became cumbersome to have to check both accounts throughout the day to receive mail from each account. I then found out there is a way to merge both of the mail accounts into one on the mail feature on the Mac.
This is a quick and very easy process. First open up mail located in the icon tray at the bottom of the screen.

Written on March 1st, 2010. 0 Comments

5 Twitter Tools to Find People

To get the most out of Twitter you will at some point have to rely on an outside website (or web tool) to provide some help. As you grow in popularity and add new followers it becomes difficult to manage the growing amount of friends within the twitter application. Twitter no longer allows a “bulk” follow or “unfollow” so it may take using a website to find the friends that no longer use twitter or never follow you back. Check out these 5 necessary tools.

Written on February 27th, 2010. 0 Comments

Bookmark an iPhone Icon for your Web Page

When saving a bookmark on the iPhone it sometimes saves it as cool icon or as a snapshot of the web page. Here I will list a few web sites that offer to help make your web page icon into an actual icon to match the iPhone icon standard.

Written on January 28th, 2010. 1 Comment

Pimp your Mac OSX Dock

If you are like me and like to keep your documents and projects neatly orgainzed then you will really like this application Dock Spaces. This app allows you to have up to 10 different docks and even tailor them for each Space you have arranged in Spaces. Going one step further, if your dock has too many icons close together it can be difficult to see. There is a way to group like icons making them easier to find.
The Dock Spaces application allows you to swap the dock for one that you have preset anytime you want from the menu bar. This will improve your productivity, and completely reinvent your user interface experience. Integrating this with Spaces will offer you a different dock depending on your Space selected.
It is also possible to seperate icons by creating a blank space between them. This will allow you to group like icons that are related to find faster. For example, you could group the iWork icons together then a space. You will have to run this commend below in Terminal (Applications > Utilities):

Written on December 15th, 2009. 0 Comments

10 Coda Tips and Plugins

When beginning with web design or development you will need some sort of code editor to write the website. From there, you will also need software to refine images, a web browser to test your design, tools to store code clips, and lastly an FTP client. I have in the past relied heavily on Adobe Dreamweaver, as I am a big fan of the entire web design Adobe Suite. But, when it comes to writing a blog I find it cumbersome to write PHP for some reason in Dreamweaver.

Written on December 3rd, 2009. 0 Comments

The Beginners guide to Twitter Pt.1

This is the first of three posts where I will explain the basic functions of Twitter. Twitter has evolved in the last 6 months as more people have adopted the service to become easier and user friendly. In this post you will learn how to:

Written on November 26th, 2009. 0 Comments

Adding Twitter to Google Wave, 5 easy steps

I have finally obtained my Wave preview invite and am in the process of configuring the client. I find myself searching for instructions on “how-to” do something within Wave frequently.
Once you get your Google Wave invite here is how to add Twitter or “Tweety the Twitbot” to your Wave window in 5 steps.
This is designed to be easy and adding Tweety is just like adding a new contact. First, in the bottom left hand corner is a link “Manage Contacts” and next to it is a “+” sign. Click on the “+”.

Written on November 22nd, 2009. 0 Comments

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