Last month I reviewed The Missing Manual Leopard Edition by David Pogue (Link). I really enjoyed the book and found it to be to best book out for leopard by far, but I did find one minor mistake in the book, on page 486 “Shared Data Files” where Pogue explains how to use iTunes music with two accounts on one computer.

Mr. Pogue writes me back today “Oh, yikes… I think you’re right!”, and explains next print will have this resolved.

Macosxhints.com provided a very cool tutorial today on how to prevent electromagnetic interference with your iPhone. If your constantly hearing annoying noises when your near speakers with your iPhone, this will stop it.

1. All you have to do it cut out 2 inch x 3 inch piece of aluminum foil
2. Fold the longer side in half to make it 2 inch x 1.5 inch.
3. Tape the foil to the bottom right corner with electric tape like the picture above (longer side horizontal to the bottom).

It might be a little eye sore, but if you have it in a case, you won’t see it.

The Testing for Signal Differences

I have gone over 4 hours so far with no problems. I even tested this on an hour car drive from work with no issues.

I went to the store and bought more foil for pictured results, to compare two iPhones side by side.

Pictured Results

Here’s with double the foil recommended & bigger (on the right) and an iPhone with no foil (to the left)

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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.

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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