Link: Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone and Apple Mail
Much more complete setup instructions than Google’s own. By mapping Apple Mail’s special folders (Drafts, Trash, Spam) to Gmail’s built-in special folders, the “right thing" just happens. E.g., all of your sent mail goes into the same Sent Mail mailbox, whether you sent it from Mail on your Mac, MobileMail on your iPhone, or Gmail’s web interface.
Link: 10.5: Create multi-page PDFs from images in Preview
The new Leopard Preview has some great features, including editing and rearranging pages in a PDF file. However, what you might not know is that you can take some number of images and create a single PDF out of those images. …
Link: 10.5: Create your own iSync plug-ins in 10.5
I just got my copy of Leopard, and while I must admit that I am half-happy with it, there are a few interesting new features. Among them a small application named iSync Plug-in Maker, included in the Developer tools (/Develo…
Link: 10.5: Get more from Spotlight with new operators
In OS X 10.4, there were a few special operators you could use to narrow your results. For instance, kind:pdf or date:tomorrow were acceptable search terms. In 10.5, the number of such operators has been greatly expanded, tho…
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 0.5; killall Dock
(to change the delay, in seconds, between hitting the edge of the screen with a dragged window and moving into the neighboring Screens desktop)
``defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-wrap-arrows -boolean NO; killall Dock
(toggles whether moving to the next Space wraps around when you get to the last Space; i.e., keep going left and you’ll wind up in the rightmost Space)Â
Link: 10.5: Forget ’learned’ words in the Dictionary
Not the most splashy of new hints, but one of my favorite new features is having spell check ‘unlearn’ a word. I have often been too quick to add a word to my spelling list, to only later see that I missed a letter or somethi…
Link: 10.5: Set up authenticated printing via IPP
Say you want to use some printers via IPP, but these require authentication with a user account. You could use this hint which was published a few days ago, and install the printer directly using an address like this: ipp:…
Link: iPhone Web Developer Sample Code
Mark Malone’s web site has some terrific demos of MobileSafari web design techniques. Things like creating iPhone-style buttons, changing the tap highlight color to something other than gray ( -webkit-tap-highlight-color), fixing divs to the top and bottom of the viewport, and much more. A veritable gold mine.
Link: Drawers for your Stacks
Finally, a cool-looking solution to this “problem.” I think I’m going to have to do that…
Link: Original Marvel Comics Going Online
An anonymous reader writes “In a tentative move onto the internet, Marvel is putting some of its older comics online Tuesday, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters appeared. The publisher is hoping fans will be intrigued enough about the origins of those characters to shell out $9.99 a month, or $4.99 monthly with a year-long commitment. For that price, they’ll be able to poke through, say, the first 100…