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 | As many of you know, I check the Apple refurb store every week, looking for bargains I can pass on to About: Macs readers. This week marks the first time that refurbished iPad 2s have been available in the store. You can find more info in the Mac News & Events section of this newsletter. I spent part of the extended weekend looking at how to get Lion's sidebar working the way I want it to. I particularly wanted to recreate the smart searches I've come to rely on. Smart searches let me easily pick up where i left off by showing me all the items I was working on in a specific date range. The other part of the long weekend was spent with family and friends, and toasting the unofficial end of summer. Which reminds me: Fall is just around the corner, and with fall comes our annual Halloween spooktacular here at About Macs. Stay tuned for nightmarish updates as Halloween approaches. | |
How to Restore Smart Searches to OS X Lion's Finder Sidebar
Is the Finder's sidebar in Lion missing something? It's missing a lot of things, actually, such as color icons and the ability to reorder the sections. But at least there is one thing missing that we can fix; that's the lack of the Search For section, which was present in pre-Lion Finder sidebars. The Search For section contained smart folders that were pre-populated in the sidebar. With just a click, you could see everything you had worked on today, yesterday, or during the last week. You could also see all of the documents, images, and movies on your Mac. You can recreate smart searches in the Lion Finder sidebar by following the instructions in this guide... Read more
| Getting Windows 7 and Snow Leopard to Play Together
Sharing Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) files and printers isn't a difficult process. But there are a few tricks and tips you need to be aware of to get your Windows 7 or Mac printers and files to be accessible to other users on your local network. To help you get Windows 7 and your Mac playing nicely together, I've collected file and printer sharing guides. So, dive in and get connected... Read more
| Partition Your Mac's Hard Drive With Disk Utility
Disk Utility is the application of choice for dividing a hard drive into multiple partitions. It's straightforward and easy to use, it provides a nice graphical interface, and best of all, it's free. Disk Utility is included with the Mac OS. The version of Disk Utility bundled with OS X 10.5 and later has some notable new features, specifically, the ability to add, delete, and resize hard drive partitions without first erasing the hard drive. If you need a slightly larger partition, or you would like to split a partition into multiple partitions, you can do it with Disk Utility, without losing the data that's currently stored on the drive... Read more
| Enable Disk Utility's Debug Menu
OS X's Disk Utility has a hidden Debug menu that, when enabled, can give you access to a few more Disk Utility features than you normally see. While Disk Utility has had a Debug menu for quite a while, it became even more useful with the advent of OS X Lion. With OS X Lion, Apple added a restore partition on the startup drive that you can use to boot from and run utilities such as Disk Utility, re-install OS X, and even access the Internet to find solutions to problems you may be having. The restore partition is hidden, however, and isn't visible from within Disk Utility. That is, unless you use the Debug menu to show all partitions, including those marked as hidden... Read more
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