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Apple operating systems

• Quick closing of the navigation sidebar
• 'Show Inspector' - advanced Get Info
• Making icons extra large
• Opening a window and retaining its parent
• Moving a folder via its icon
• Moving files (not copying) across disks
• Customising the toolbar
• Quickly put your Mac to sleep
• Quickly hide all windows/programs
• Rotate desktop background
• How to I install software from a .dmg file?
• Setting paper to A4 size
• Deleting files that won't delete

Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)

• Setting the correct date format for all applications
• Invert your screen to greyscale

Apple - Hardware (excluding iPods and iPhones)

• How to check the health of your hard drive
• Zooming the screen on a flat-panel Mac
• Getting audio from an MPG file

Mac mini

• Can I use any keyboard and mouse with my Mac Mini?

Mighty Mouse

• How do I clean my Apple Mighty Mouse?

Mobile Phones

• Can I use my Bluetooth-enabled phone with my Mac?

Browsers

• Set the default Internet browser application

Email

• Setting your default email application

Safari

• Safari keyboard shortcuts
• Keyboard scrolling in Safari
• How do I block ads when using Safari?
• How do I add greater search engine functionality to Safari?
• How do I get web links in Safari 3.1 to open in a tab?

Entourage

• How do I set Entourage 2004 to download pictures that are in my email?

Multimedia and Audio

• How do I listen to a New Zealand radio station across the internet?

AppleWorks

• Opening old AppleWorks files in OS X
• How do I stop AppleWorks 6 from listing recent documents?

iTunes

• Resizing iTunes windows
• Finding playlists for a song
• iTunes extended playlist
• How do I import album art into iTunes 7?
• Is there a way to re-download just one episode of a podcast in iTunes?

Microsoft Office

• How do I make Microsoft Office display dates in d/m/y format?

Microsoft Word

• How do I get Microsoft Word 2004 to display clipart in documents?

iMovie

• How do I export a sound from a movie using iMovie?

Disk Utility

• How do I repair Disk Permissions?

Address Book

• Making email addresses readable (large) in the address book

MacBook and MacBook Pro

• How do I make my laptop screen resolution automatically resize when plugged into an external monitor?
• How do I stop my laptop going to sleep when the lid is closed?

iPod Nano

• Can my iPod Nano play video?

Grab

• How do I take snapshots of windows or parts of my screen on a Mac?

Printers

• Using older printers with Mac OS X

Firefox

• How do I remove names I want firefox to forget, without disabling all passwords?

Front Row

• How do I access other drives in FrontRow ?

Networking

• How do I share a modem connection using Airport routers?
• How do I quickly access my MAC address when using wireless?

iCal

• How do I get free SMS notifications from iCal?
• How do I have NZ statutory holidays put automatically into iCal?

Photo Booth

• How do I control the countdown and flash options in Photo Booth?