What else?

Follow these steps in order to change your fonts’ size in the Finder or Mail sidebar:

1. Launch System Preferences by clicking the System Preferences icon in the Dock, selecting the System Preferences item from the Apple menu, or opening Launchpad and selecting the System Preferences icon.
2. Select the General preference pane from the System Preferences window.
3. Use the drop-down menu next to the “Sidebar icon size” item to set the size to Small, Medium, or Large. This drop-down menu controls the icon and font size for both the sidebar in Mail and the sidebar in a Finder window. The default size is Medium.

When you’ve made your selection, just close System Preferences.

Again, strange issue from Apple: Airdrop is only working on these computers:

• MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer)
• MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
• MacBook (Late 2008 or newer)
• iMac (Early 2009 or newer)
• Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
• Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010)

How to make Airdrop work on unsupported Mac computers after the jump.
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Just visit this page and follow the steps: www.me.com/move
Don’t forget to update your OS (Mac OS Lion 10.7.2) and your iOS (version 5) prior to perform the move.

And again…

Thank you Steve…

Merlin 2 is the leading professional project management software for Mac OS X. Developed by project managers for project managers, Merlin truly delivers in meeting your professional requirements.

The input of tasks and resources can easily be done using either the mouse or shortcuts. Entering larger amount of data can be done fast and efficiently in Merlin.

Merlin has an optional web sharing feature allowing users to access a shared project over the web browser. Merlin is available in English and in German. The software chooses the language it uses according to the system language settings (a setting that can’t be overwritten, so this test, including the screenshots, was done with the German edition of Merlin)

Merlin is a project management application for Mac loaded with features. With only three mouse-clicks, you can create a new project from a template, which can be edited intuitively in four different views.

The contents and appearance of your view can be freely altered, allowing you to retain a constant overview of your project – even during the planning and implementation of comprehensive projects.
Merlin elements include risk, issue, information, event, and document management. These elements can be inserted into projects, and attached to the complete project, on single activities, activity groups or resources. Merlin recognizes the following 6 element types:

• Checklist — A to do list. Can be used to keep track of lists.
• File — Linking or embedding documents of any file format. Version control for embedded files is implemented.
• Risk — Risk information for risk mitigation and later evaluation.
• Event — For organizing project relevant events.
• Information — Additional information for the project as a mini CRM (Customer relationship management).
• Issue — Issues arising during project realization.

Merlin understands the file formats offered by MS Project. Merlin can read MPP, XML or MPX files and write to XML or MPX formats if necessary.

You may want to give it a try before taking the decision, like me, to use it as your ultimate project management solution. Download Merlin here.

If the BlackBerry Desktop Software is unable to detect the BlackBerry smartphone when the Mac computer is booted into Mac OS X 10.6 64-bit mode then, the solution would be to restart Mac OS X and boot into 32-bit mode for the BlackBerry Desktop Manager to successfully detect the BlackBerry smartphone.

Note: If Mac OS X boots using the 64-bit kernel by default, you can start up with the 32-bit kernel by holding the 3 and 2 keys during startup.

To determine if the system is running in 64-bit, perform one of the following steps:

1. Open System Profiler.
2. Under Contents, highlight Software.
3. Reference the System Software Overview.
4. If 64-bit Kernel and Extensions is set to Yes, then 64-bit mode is enabled.
   

My dear mother keeps on buying Samsung branded mobile phones, and I’m the one in charge of backing up/restoring her contacts… And man… It’s a tricky task.
First thing to know, Samsung phones are missing one key feature: they don’t work with iSync.
In fact, Samsung failed to implement SyncML in most (or all) of its mobile phones.

So, here is a manual way to sync your contacts with your Samsung mobile phones based on my experience in saving/restoring mom’s contacts.

Three little things before we start:

• Your phone is supposed to be (bluetooth) paired with your Mac (System Preferences/Bluetooth/Devices/Set Up New Device/Pair your phone with your Mac),
• The bluetooth status is set to show on your menu bar (System Preferences/Bluetooth/Settings: Show Bluetooth status in the menu bar):
  
• Your Samsung phone is supposed to be “discoverable”.

Just follow this tutorial, here we go:

1. Open OS X’s Address Book;
2. Change the vCard format (preferences/vCard/Set vCard Format to 2.1);
3. Now select all of your contacts, and drag them anywhere you want by holding down the option key (it should create a single vCard for each and every contact);
4. Send the cards over: Menu Bar/Bluetooth Status/Send File; select all the vCards generated in step 3 and select your paired Samsung phone;
5. The worst part of the tutorial: accept each vCard, one at a time… Or, if your phones allows you to, set it to automatically accept incoming files from your Mac.

If you’re in the same situation… Buy your mother a BlackBerry or an iPhone, if she still refuses… print and keep this tutorial…

CrossOver for Mac allows many Windows-based applications to run on any Intel based Mac OS X computer by using a compatibility layer.
The application includes an intuitive interface, which makes the installation of Windows software as easy as if you really were on Windows (you won’t need to reboot after installing softwares though) Just place your install CD in your machine, and CrossOver will recognize it and offer to install it.

As you can see in the above screen capture, CrossOver comes preconfigured to enable you to install common tested applications like MS Office, Lotus Notes, MS Visio and much more.

But you can also install other non listed and non tested applications.
They often do work.

No Windows CD are required, the application integrates seamlessly in OS X.
Clicking a Windows file or document – including email attachments – will launch the appropriate Windows program, allowing you to work on the files.

This application is really made for those like me who (has to) would like to use PC applications on their Mac without having to load the full OS through a VM or worst: having to reboot via BootCamp.

Before using CrossOver, think about the fact you won’t have to buy a license for Windows to use MS Office 2007 on your Mac.
It worths a try, download an evaluation a copy of CrossOver by clicking this link.