Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Hot to Sync Facebook Events to iCal

You can sync your Facebook events to iCal (Mac's default Calendar).
1. Login to Facebook and go to "All Events"
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Export Events".
3. Click that URL , then your browser may prompts you that it will launch your default calendar app.
4. Once your default calendar launch, you can click "subscribe".

Then it works.

P.S.
You can't update the Facebook events on your calendar app in this method. It is an one way sync.
This is the same method to publish those events to your iPhone calendar from Facebook.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Managing Personal Folders - Apple Mail

For Mail 5.0
1. Click "Mailbox" and then select "New Mailbox ..."
2. Choose "On my Mac" in "Location"


Then you can move the mails from your "Inbox" to there !

How to use Search Tokens in Lion Mail?

To find a message, go to the search bar in the top right hand corner of Mail. Type in the search key about the message -- can be person or subject. While you are typing the search key, there is a list of options appear as the pull down manual like Spotlight. Then click on any of those search suggestions to add a token in the search field.
There are many other available tokens when you click on the small downward arrow besides your term.

To specify a date, just simply type in a month followed by 4-digit year then you can have "date" token.

Then you can enter as many different search terms after each token.

Furthermore, you can even save your search as a Smart Mailbox by clicking the save button which just below the search bar.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Find the Original Photos from iPhoto

If you want to get you photos (in file format) after you import them to iPhoto, you need to do the following

  1. Locate a "file" called "iPhoto Library". It should locate in "pictures"
  2. "Right" click and select "show Package Contents" 
  3. Photo files are located under "Data" folder.

Try it!

Mac Boot with Disk Selection

Hold the key "option" when your machine is booting, then you can enter the manually to select the boot disk!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Resource of MS Office for Mac

Here is a web for the help on MS Office in Mac. It seems quite useful for Mac guy.

http://www.officeformachelp.com

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Total size of selected files/folders Mac

How to get the total size of selected files/folders in Mac ?

1. Select the files or folders as usual
2. Hold Alt/Option
3. "Right Click" and show the menu
4. Choose "Show Inspector" (it is "Get info" if you don't hold that button).

They will show you the information of your selection.