Monthly Archive for May, 2009
If you have Apple OS 10.5 (Leopard) and want to move the icons around on your Apple menu bar, for example you want the volume icon to the right of the clock or the time machine icon on the left of everything, you can move them about just holding down the Command (apple) key while clicking on the icon in question and dragging it to the desired position.
It’s as simple as that.
Does it irritate you that Internet Explorer insists on showing you its Links folder in your Favorites (I know, American spelling but that’s just how Microsoft make it)? Sure, you can remove the Links toolbar by simply right-clicking an area of the Internet Explorer toolbar and de-selecting it from the popup menu.
However, the Links folder will still appear in your Favorites menu. You should NOT just delete this folder as it can cause problems. Instead:
- Open your Favorites menu and right-click the Links folder
- Select Properties from the popup menu
- Click the check box to make the folder hidden
- Click on OK and close Internet Explorer
Next time you look in your Favorites menu there will be no Links folder!
Apple’s Mail application has this great feature that completes a recipient’s email address as you start typing it in the To field of an email. This is a useful time-saver but, if one of your contacts changes email address, Mail reliably but stubbornly continues to auto-complete the old, defunct address even if you have updated your Address Book.
There is however, a way to delete old or unwanted addresses from the auto-complete list. Once the old address is removed and you subsequently use the new one, it will be remembered and the auto-complete feature is again as useful as ever.
To remove an email address from the auto-complete list in Apple Mail:
- Open Apple Mail
- Click on Window then Previous Recipients
- Scroll to and select the desired address(es) from the list (you can highlight multiple addresses by holding down the Command key when selecting)
- Click on the Remove From List button
If you want to save an email address rather than remove it, you can do so from the same Previous Recipients window. On the right-hand side you will see the Add to Address Book button which enables you to add the selected email address to either a new or existing contact in your Address Book.