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Apple Named World's Most Admired CompanyBy Ben Bonaccio, Smalldog.com

For a forth consecutive year, Apple has been ranked The World’s Most Admired Company by Fortune. Boasting an overall score of 8.16, the company ousted Google, Berkshire Hathaway, and Southwest Airlines, once again claiming the number one spot. Cited for its steady release schedule and continued innovations, the Cupertino giant continues to set the standard in the tech industry.

Although the announcement of Steve Jobs’ second leave of absence caused stocks to dive earlier in the year, the combined successes of products such as the original iPad, iPhone 4, and most recently iPad 2 have proven incredibly lucrative for the company. So lucrative, in fact, that Apple has nearly doubled its quarterly profits since this time last year. With competing computing companies such as EMC and Hewlett-Packard trailing by nearly two points, Apple cleaned up—scoring number one industry rankings almost across the board. Apple ranked first in all of the following “Key Attributes of Reputation” with the exception of Global competitiveness, which went to HP.

Innovation

People management

Use of corporate assets

Social responsibility

Quality of management

Financial soundness

Long-term investment

Quality of products/services

The vast majority of these statistics came prior to the announcement of iPad 2. Though sales figures have yet to be disclosed, Apple’s new tablet had a tremendous launch and first week. Assuming the company continues to innovate and update its computer and mobile products to the same degree of excellence, it will be a shoo-in for Fortune’s award in 2012.

Mac Tip of the Week #317Excerpted from The Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Pocket Guide by Jeff Carlson

Import Your Old Contact Info into Address Book

Most likely, you already have a bunch of contact information stored digitally—sitting in software like Palm Desktop—that hasn't been updated for years. In that software, export the contacts to one of these formats: vCard, LDAP Interchange Format (LDIF), tab-delimited, or comma-separated value (CSV). Then, in Address Book, choose File > Import to bring the data into Address Book. Choose Help > Address Book Help for more information, including ways to ensure that text files import cleanly.

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Tips and Tools for Managing Disk Space in Mac OS XBy Ryan Faas

It's amazing how quickly a home's seemingly endless supply of closet space becomes crammed to overflowing. Is your Mac having the same experience? Whether your problem is trying to save routine work files or speeding up your Mac's sluggish performance, Ryan Faas offers a set of solutions to clear out the overflow and improve your storage organization.

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The Top Mac Hard Drive Utilities, 2010 EditionBy Ryan Faas

Ryan Faas evaluates some of the best tools for analyzing and repairing problems with Mac hard drives and directory structures.

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Data-Recovery Options Under Mac OS XBy Ryan Faas

Even with excellent backup systems in place, eventually most of us will experience data loss. Your ability to recover depends on how the data was lost and what you do once you recognize the problem. Ryan Faas examines native and external options for Mac users who hope to get back their lost photos, client databases, and other precious files.

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Six ways to clean up your MacStart spring off right with these tips for tidying up your systemby Kirk McElhearn, Macworld.com   Mar 22, 2011 6:00 am

It’s spring again, and with the new season comes the age-old ritual of cleaning out things you ignored for most of the year. Far be it from me to suggest that you clean out your basement, garage, or attic, but I would be remiss if I didn’t recommend you take a closer look at the crusty corners of your Mac. Last year, Chris Breen shared valuable Tips for a tidier Mac—all of which are worth revisiting. But I also want to draw your attention to a half-dozen digital dust bunnies that you might not have considered:

1. Get rid of old iChat logsIf you use iChat, you can have the program store logs of your chats. (Go to iChat -> Preferences, click on Messages, select Save Chat Transcripts To, and then choose a folder.) By default, the program saves transcripts in a folder called iChats in your Documents folder, but you can choose a different location to store these files.

With this preference set, iChat saves a log file of every chat. This is a great idea (and especially helpful at work) if you often need to refresh your memory about a conversation. But if you send images inline during chats, these files may take up a lot of space. If you look inside the iChats folder, you’ll see that the files are organized by date. While you may want to save recent chat logs, you may have months of files you can trash, saving a lot of disk space.

2. Delete application backupsMany programs offer automatic backups, and store copies of files in a selected folder, just as iChat saves chat logs. Two programs I use often—Bare Bones Software’s BBEdit and The Omni Group’s OmniFocus—do this. Some applications, such as OmniFocus, let you choose the location for the backups; others, like BBEdit, don’t. BBEdit stores its backups in a BBEdit Backups folder in my Documents folder; I have OmniFocus store its backups in my Documents folder as well.

If you use any application that saves backups, you may find that it has tucked away several gigabytes of duplicate files, depending on how the program saves them. (BBEdit saves a new backup every time you save a file.) Deleting these backup files can save space, and make searching via OS X’s Spotlight much easier.

While you’re at it, check in youruserfolder/Music/iTunes folder; you may find a Previous Libraries folder, which includes copies of your iTunes libraries that were saved after you installed a new version.

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3. Get rid of Mail downloadsWhen you receive attachments to e-mail messages in Apple’s Mail, the files are stored with your messages at first. But if you double-click an attachment to view it, or if you use QuickLook to glance at it, Mail stores a copy in your youruserfolder/Library/Mail Downloads folder. You may have dozens of files here occupying a huge amount of space. You can generally delete these without worry. If you still have the original messages, the attachments are part of those messages. If not, you may have already saved the attachments to your hard disk.

4. Delete log filesYour Mac stores lots of log files, most of which you never need to review. Open the Console application (in /Applications/Utilities), to see a list in the Console Messages window sidebar.

You can delete many of these files without affecting your Mac, and you can save significant space, since some of these files can be quite large. For instance, in the screenshot above, you can see a number of system.log files. The first one—system.log—is the current file, but the others, with the .bz2 suffix, are archived files.

The different log files stored on your Mac are listed in the Console's sidebar.

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Delete these files with Titanium Software’s free utility Onyx. Launch the program, click on Cleaning in the toolbar, and then click on the Logs tab. Check System Archived Logs, and then click Execute. While you’re using Onyx, check out the many other files that the program can delete to clear up space on your Mac.

5. Weed out iTunes dupesIf you’re cavalier about how you monitor your iTunes library, you may have a lot of duplicate files. iTunes has a built-in feature to help you find duplicates, to see if you copied some files twice, or if you have the same songs on original albums and others from best-of albums.

To use this feature, choose File -> Display Duplicates. This shows all tracks that share the same name and artist. If you hold down the Option key when you select the File menu, the menu item changes to Display Exact Duplicates. This sorts for duplicates where the name, artist, and album match. Check these files carefully. You may find some that you can get rid of, saving space not only on your Mac, but also on your iPad or iPhone.

Still, iTunes’ duplicate search is limited. Doug Adams’ $15 Dupin gives you much more power to weed out duplicates, sorting by a variety of different criteria. If you add lots of music to your iTunes library, Dupin is a great way to slim it down.

6. Reset Safari

iTunes can find duplicate files in your library.

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If you use Apple’s Safari, some of the program’s features can take up unnecessary space. For instance, the cache file is intended to make your browsing snappier, but can easily consume hundreds of megabytes. When it gets too big, it can actually slow down browsing. History files can make Spotlight searching sluggish. And Top Sites, Website preview images, and Website icons (favicons) can slow down the program as well.

Every now and then it’s a good idea to reset Safari. Choose Safari -> Reset Safari and check the options that interest you.

I don’t reset or delete everything—you can see my choices in the screenshot above. Choose what’s most important to you, and reset Safari every now and then to speed up your browsing and save disk space.

One last tip: have you looked in your Downloads (youruserfolder/Downloads) folder lately? You may find plenty of unneeded copies of files there too.

Senior contributor Kirk McElhearn writes about more than just Macs on his blog Kirkville. Twitter: @mcelhearn Kirk’s latest book is Take Control of iTunes 10: The FAQ.

In this window, you can choose which Safari items to reset and delete.

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How to change the default application for a file typeAll your PDF files open in Adobe Reader, but you want them to open in Preview. All your JPEG files open in Preview when you’d rather they open in Photoshop. How do you change what Mac OS X uses as the default application for particular file types? We’ll show you how, in four steps.

Michael Harvey, Macworld.com Mar 25, 2011 9:01 am

Open with... 

All your PDF files open in Adobe Reader, but you want them to open in Preview. All your JPEG files open in Preview when you’d rather they open in Photoshop. How do you change what Mac OS X uses as the default application for particular file types? We’ll show you how, in four steps.

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Step 1: Get Info 

Find a file that’s the type you want to change. In this example, we want to set Photoshop to open any time a JPEG file is double-clicked.

Right click on your file, and then select Get Info (or click on the file once, then go to File -> Get Info, or select the file and press Command-I on your keyboard). This will open the Get Info window.

Step 2: Open With pane 

In the Get Info window, the Open With pane displays a pull-down menu with the application that is currently set to open the file. Click on that pull-down menu, and a pop-up list will display all the applications on your Mac that are able to open the file.

Move your mouse down the list and click on the application you want to open your file (in our example, we select Adobe Photoshop).

Get Info

Open With

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Open With - Select App

Step 3: Change All 

Now that you’ve changed the default program for this file, the button for Change All is active. This button will set your Mac to use the selected application to open files of this type. Click on that button.

Step 4: Confirm 

On the dialog window that pops up asking if you are sure, click Continue.

Done. You can close the Get Info window. If you want to change the default application again or change it back to the previous application, just go through these steps again.

Confirm

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How to Receive Gmail through Mail by Susie Ochs

I use Mail and recently signed up for a Gmail account. I’d like to send and receive my Gmail through Mail. I got as far as setting up Mail to receive my Gmail messages with IMAP, but so far I can’t get Mail to send email from my Gmail account. I have the outgoing server set to <smtp:gmail>.

Your settings should look like this.

That’s the problem. The outgoing server needs to be smtp.gmail.com with user authentication on and your full Gmail address (yourname@gmail.com) as the user name. And the password is of course your Gmail password. Google actually has pretty detailed directions for Apple Mail 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 on its site, under Mail Help > Troubleshooting IMAP. We shortened the direct link for you to save you some clicking around: bit.ly/GmailHelp.

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How to Set Individual Camera Import Settingsby Scott RoseI have three digital cameras that I use for different purposes. However, every time I plug those cameras into my Mac, iPhoto launches. I want to set a different import routine for each camera. Is this possible?

In Mac OS 10.6, the remarkable yet underrated Image Capture application gives you significant control over what happens when you connect different cameras. Launch Image Capture, plug in one of your cameras, select it in the left margin, then look in the lower-left corner for a pop-up menu that lets you choose which application (if any) should launch for that particular camera.

When we connect our Canon PowerShot SD630 to our Mac, a$ of its photos are automatica$y imported into a new folder on our Desktop, then deleted %om our camera.

Your options are virtually unlimited, but here are a few cool ideas: You could have your camera launch Image Capture itself, which lets you manually download your photos into the directories of your choice. You could share your camera’s contents over a local area network so other users can import your photos using their own copy of Image Capture. You could have your camera trigger any AppleScript or Automator action.

Perhaps best of all, your iPhone could launch AutoImporter, a hidden application that automatically imports photos to the directory of your choice without you intervening at all. Located at Macintosh HD/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Application/AutoImporter, you can set this application’s preferences by choosing AutoImporter > Preferences.

If you’re still using Mac OS 10.5, you can get all of this same functionality with Cameras (free, flexibits.com).

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Tip of the Week: Use Apple Remote to Sleep Your Mac

By Matt Klein, Smalldog.com

Jon Spaulding discovered a neat trick on Friday while diagnosing an iMac without infrared reception. If you press and hold the play button on your Apple remote within range of your infrared-capable Mac, you can put your computer to sleep with your remote. This is particularly useful if you are about to fall asleep and your computer is on.

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