50 Leaves wishes everyone a Happy Holidays!

With only 5 days of being open, I don’t have any gifts to give away, but I am giving out a $100 iTunes gift certificate to a random commenter between now and jan 16th (The day after my 2nd Xmas - Macworld) to the site. More details coming soon!

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I love my iPhone more than anything, but my biggest gripe about the phone was all the finger smudges.
I made a pretty cool discovery, I haven’t cleaned my iphone in over 2 weeks and my iPhone still has no smudges.

How did I do it, well by mistake actually. I bought a product called the “Power Support Anti-Glare Film Set for the iPhone” at the apple store, because my job has a crazy amount of overhead lighting which caused glare sometimes. At first I was a little pissed paying $15.00 (Overpriced) for a set of film but I never had anymore glare nor did I know how godly this film is.

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If your like me, you have several friends and family members calling you on a weekly basis about OS X because they consider you the computer guy of the bunch. This year I decided to order 6 copies of Mac OS X Leopard Edition The Missing Manual for Christmas to hopefully cut down the calling. My book order came in the mail this Friday and decided to take a quick peek at the book before I wrapped them.

A quick peek turned into reading the whole book from front to back. This by far was the best OSX book ever. I highly recommend this book for any OSX user beginner to advanced. I loved this book so much, I even ordered one for myself as a good reference.The book pretty much covers the whole GUI side of OSX, and maybe 3 pages of terminal (which is fine for most people).

Chapters in the book range from how to log in (ultimate noob stuff) to pretty advanced things like how to hack your trash label to say “Rubbish”.My favorite chapter in the book has to be about spotlight. Its amazing how powerful it is with the right commands, example typing “flash:1″ in spotlight will show all pictures taken with the flash on and “flash:0″ will show all pictures with it off. Yes this might be pointless, but its kinda cool.Next time your at the book store take a look at this book you wont be sorry.

Minor Mistake in the book

I did find one minor mistake in the book, on page 486 “Shared Data Files”. The section explains how to share iTunes music with 2 accounts on one computer.Mr. Pogue explains all you have to do is go into iTunes->preferences->advanced and point to a common users shared folder on both accounts. (more…)