Apple released a nice tutorial on how to take snapshots without opening the Grab Utility. The only problem is that it’s wrong, but close.Instead of using the option key specified in the tutorial, use shift instead.

To Save to a PNG File (Leopard) on Your Desktop

Command + Shift + 3 = Take Picture of Screen.
Command + Shift + 4 = Take Picture of Selection.
Command + Shift + 4, then tap Spacebar = Take Picture of Selected Window, Menu, Dialog Boxes or Desktop Icon.

To Save Image to Clipboard

Command + Control + Shift + 3 = Take Picture of Screen, Place in Clipboard.
Command + Control + Shift + 4 = Take Picture of Selection, Place in Clipboard.
Command + Control + Shift + 4, then tap Spacebar = Take Picture of Selected Window, Menu, Dialog Boxes or Desktop Icon and Place in Clipboard.

Today the Washington Post Released an interesting Article “Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use“.

In the article, A man Jeffery Howell of Scottsdale Arizona is being sued by the RIAA for obtaining illegal music. This is pretty common to hear when people download illegal music, but this was not the case. Mr. Howell is being sued for having around 2,000 mp3’s on his computer which where ripped from legally bought CD’s that he owns.

I know many of us have copied our bought CD’s into iTunes, so in the eyes of the RIAA we are breaking the law. Whats next, illegal to burn disk from iTunes Music? I’m against illegal downloads of music and software, but this just isn’t right.

Update December 30th 2007 2:50pm EST

Engadget recently posted that Washington Post was partially wrong. Engadget claims the RIAA is suing Howell over file sharing, not Ripping his own CDs, but also claimed the RIAA thinks Ripping bought CDs is making “unauthorized copies”.

I honestly didn’t know who to trust, a professional newpaper or a blog, so I decided to find the dirt myself. After doing some searching myself for the actual brief, it appears Engadget is correct and Washington Post is wrong.

According the the brief, Howell was caught sharing music over Kazaa. Thanks for the heads up Engadget and Ruel for pointing this out!

Gearlive, a pretty reliable source, claims the new upcoming iPhone patch will have GPS capabilities using cell tower triangulation with google maps.

What we can expect from this GPS?

Well no one better to hear it from than Google themselves!

Please note this does not work with v.1.1.2 or lower

The problem with “Become the Master of Multiple Windows in OSX Part I” is that sometimes you want multiple programs open together such as mail and your address book, but with no clutter. Thats where Spaces comes in, you can multiply your screen space up to 16 times.

To Set Up Spaces

Go into Applications => System Preferences=> Expose & Spaces , Then Click Spaces Tab

Make sure Enable Spaces is checked and Show Spaces in menu bar is checked like the picture above. Add 4 or more spaces clicking the + next to rows and columns (it doesn’t matter which or how many).

Setting up the Spaces Example

Open any 4 programs you want and hit F8 to activate spaces

Drag and drop each of the 4 programs into the different empty blue boxes and hit F8 to get out of spaces.

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