Tag: tip
Remove Digits From Calculator One Swipe At A Time
It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s tip time here at Macgasm. Did you know that there’s a hidden gesture in the calculator application that helps...
Get Your iCloud Tabs In Chrome For Mac
I can’t be the only one on the planet that prefers Safari in iOS and Chrome on my desktop. When you live in two different...
How To Block Flash For All Websites But A Select Few
I recently formatted Mavericks, but then it happened: I was being asked to download and install Flash on my computer. At first I avoided it...
Here’s How To Identify Your Apple Gear
Knowing the model of your Apple device is obviously important. It is especially good to know when you are having an issue with your device...
Here’s A Tip, Add Macgasm To Your Home Screen
This will work for any website you fancy, but we’d prefer it if you showed your Macgasm support and added us to your home screen....
Tip: Hide All The Windows But The One You’re Working In
Here’s a quick and handy tip. Most of you probably know that hitting Command+H will hide the current application you’re working in, minimizing it to...
Tired Of Missing Calls On Your iPhone? Turn On LED Notifications Instead Of Vibrate
Missed calls, missed sext messages, missed, missed, missed. I’m always missing things because my phone seems to prefer a silent state these days, even when...
Tip: Reach Inbox Zero Daily With This Nifty Smart Mailbox
I struggle with email. Like really, seriously struggle. Just when I get through a set of replies, I’ve got ten more to go through. The...
Can’t Take It Anymore: Kill All My Files For Good
Oh man, I just can’t take it any more. There are a lot of great things about Lion but All My Files is certainly not...
Five Safari Keyboard Shortcuts That’ll Have You Abandoning Chrome In No Time
Using a trackpad or mouse is for newbs. Any time I can get a keyboard shortcut to do something, I prefer using it to actually...
Did You Know That You Can Compare Time Machine Backups?
I hate to break it to you, but a Time Machine drive can get corrupted just as badly as a normal drive. Luckily Apple gives...
Customize OS X With This Giant List Of 63 Defaults Hacks For The Terminal
Customizing OS X isn’t the easiest thing to do if you’re the type of person who likes to tinker and make things your own. There...
Drag and drop email into iCal to schedule important tasks, and GTD
If you’re anything like I am, you probably find yourself using Mail.app as a bit of a ToDo list. Anything that kicks around in my...
Never buy another iPhone dock again with this origami dock
Have you ever wanted to get your hands on a dock one moment, only to realize there’s not one in sight? Turns out Make Magazine...
Kill screenshots from filling up your iCloud with hack
Syncing your photos to iCloud is pretty awesome.Having your screenshots go with them to that magical cloud is not. We talked a little bit about...
Get native song notifications on track changes in iTunes
Getting live updates of what song is playing in iTunes isn’t difficult these days with the dozen or so applications that provide the feature. But,...
Quick Tip: Locking your desktop with your screen saver
Okay, what gives? I just spent the last five minutes trying to remember how to get my screen saver to lock my desktop in Lion...
Siri’s mysterious blue underline, and what it means to you
I’m sure you’ve all noticed it at some point, but Siri is pretty dang cool. She’s not quite as good at listening as, say, Apple’s...