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Trick to Easily Rotate Address Book Photos

March 19th, 2009 Brian Cometa No comments

Since I just bought Cyntact for my iPhone, I’ve been moving my photos from iPhoto’s “Faces” into Address Book. Unfortunately, there is no easy (free) way to do this automatically, but I did stumble upon a neat trick when adding pictures to your Address Book contacts:


Option clicking the picture allow you to rotate it!

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It’s these little hidden niceties that make me love Macs!
Oh, and option+shift will snap to the hash marks along the circle :)

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A Complete List of Apple’s Recalls

March 14th, 2009 Brian Cometa No comments

I’ve just compiled a list of all the known Apple recalls (aka Exchange & Repair Programs). It includes current and expired recalls (so people can know if there is a known problem with their system even if Apple won’t cover it anymore), how to identify problem models, and links directly to Apple’s site for each specific recall.

This information should be helpful for Mac techs (like myself) and fix-it-yourself power users, plus anyone else hoping to troubleshoot their broken Mac.

The list is in a wide (spreadsheet) format, so it will open in a new window.

* Please notify me of any errors or missing recalls.

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Install 2 Drives in Your Mac Mini For 1TB Storage!

March 8th, 2009 Brian Cometa No comments

Man I love ifixit.com. They’ve got a great looking (and easy to navigate) site for buying Mac parts along with dozens of custom made instruction manuals for many Mac computers.

But today they’ve stepped it up — showing us how to hack the Mini (by removing the optical drive) in order to fit a second hard drive, allowing up to 1TB of storage (with 2×500gb sata drives).

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Photo from ifixit.com Mac Mini 1TB Installation Guide

It involves a little soldiering, but looks pretty easy if you know what you’re doing: take a look at ifixit’s Mac Mini 1TB Installation Guide and upgrade kit ($249 for everything you need, minus soldiering tools).

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