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How to change the settings of the mouse 1. Go to System Preferences and open Keyboard & Mouse. 2. Select the tab that says Mouse.From here you can control mouse sensitivity as how fast the pointer moves across the monitor when you work or move the mouse, and adjust for your double-click reflexes. 3. If you want to control the speed of the mouse pointer across the screen when you move the mouse, you need to glide the Tracking Speed slider left which will slow it down or right to increase the speed. 4. In order to change the speed of a double click, move the slider 7 adjust to the level of your choice. 5. Now comes adjusting the scroll wheel (if you have it in your mouse) and this is also done in the same way, being controlled by the slider representing left to slow & right to fast. Mouse settings in Mac seems much easier in PC.

Enabling right click and coming back to control+click. In general, the mouse setting for a Mac mouse is made single click and for contextual menu it is ctrl+click. For the users switching from a Windows environment it is tough to work with one click and in general it is handy to work with one hand rather than using other hand to hold down control key. If we use the terms that Mac prefers, they call the single click button as Primary and the right click as Secondary button. In order to change it, follow these steps. a. Go to System Preferences and open Keyboard and Mouse. b. The selected drop down in blue is the option from where we can activate and deactivate the secondary button. We will talk about more settings of mouse in upcoming post.

How to control, disable and enable sound in Mac? Controlling sounds on Mac is really easy. The sound icon shows on the menu bar somewhere to the extreme right. This sound icon can be shown and hidden as per your choice. To increase and decrease the volume all you have to do is just click on the sound icon on the menu bar and then click on this sound icon and you will get the seek bar that allows you to adjust the volume. There are some further sound controls and to play with it all you need to do is, open System Preferences and click on Sound . Img 1 This will take you to a new window that controls sound on your machine. Img 2 Select the output tab (as in Img2) and to control the speakers, if there is any external speaker attached, you will see it listed here and in order to change the settings for this speaker just select it (and it will be highlighted blue) and control the settings. Img 3 If you want the volume bar not to be displayed in the menu bar then just check the option th...

What is xampp and how to install it? XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server , MySQL database , and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages . This was developed by Apache and the details are available here . Xampp helps you, if you are a web programmer or even designer and you want to test the developed site as how will it look exactly when it is launched on the web. Xampp makes your machine run as a web sever and host sites locally. Process to download and install Xampp on Mac Machines. Step 1: DownloadSimply click on the link below. This is the latest version. A complete list of downloads (older versions) is available at SourceForge . Download Xampp. (Download source: http://www.apachefriends.org ) Step 2: Open the .dmg file and the very first thing you need to do is move or drag xampp folder into you Applications folder. Step 3: Now in order to run this all you need ...

Disk Utility, Network preference pane, Console, Activity Monitor & System Profiler These are five pillars of troubleshooting a Mac machines. If you are facing any issue try to check if you could locate it and then try to resolve using these tools. A breif intoduction of each of the item is here and I will surely write details of each of them later in coming posts. 1. Disk Utility: Disk Utility , located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder, can perform two types of repairs via the following choices in the First Aid tab: a. Repair Disk b. Repair Disk permissions. While Repair Disk can correct a variety of directory problems, it is generally incapable of repairing severe directory corruption for which you can try few third party applications, but before you try them, assure that you have the latest version of the utility that is compatible with the version of Mac OS X you are using. Repair Disk Permissions verifies and, if problems are found, resets (repairs) ...

Short Intro About Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is Apple's next operating system after Tiger i.e. 10.4 that was launched more than two years ago. Apple claims that there are more than 300 differences on Tiger and Leopard, while not earth-shattering, further streamline the experience of using a Mac . Now the very next question comes to your mind would be, "Is Leopard worth paying what Apple has set his price to?" For some of you it maybe not, because you are contented with the way Tiger works for you. If you are looking for Time Machine , you need a Leopard, if you need Bootcamp, even then you must have Leopard. Leopard makes it far easier to find documents and applications than Windows Vista . The recently launched Spotlight is just impressing. Leopard's interface niceties made the daily mechanics of using the computer more pleasurable. Mundane chores, such as finding files and backing up data, become a visual treat (See our photo gallery of screenshots .) Mac OS X...

Unable to find incoming mails in inbox I got a user who faced the issue that whenever someone sends her a mail she could not find it in her inbox. She checked the details and sent mails to herself but was unable to find it there. The main issue was that she had exchange account configured in her Entourage and could see the mail in her webmail but as soon as she launched her Entourage the mail disappeared. It did not take long to understand that this problem is just because she had a rule set up which was causing all the mails which were coming in the inbox were automatically getting deleted. So just deleting the rules fixed her problem. If we move a step ahead there could be some other reason which could cause this happen. The other reason could be MLM, Mailing List Manager. If a rule is set up under MLM you will not be able to get your mails and will take effect as soon as Entourage is launched. So if you face any wiered issue please don't forget to check the MLM & Rules. For...

Mail lost after clicking on 'Send' This happens in Entourage that when you click on send and mail is not send and is lost. This happens when the database is corrupt and needs a rebuild. If in case you will try to find this particular mail, you wont be able to, in your inbox or other folders under the account. It always sits in the "Outbox" of your "On My Computer" folder. Now in order to fix the problem of 4363 and 4362 you need to click here .

Finding all mails & items related to one contact Here is the simple step that we can follow to find out all mails and other items related to a contact. Launch Entourage and click on Address Book . In your address book, select a contact of whom you want to check the details about. Click on Contact & go to Find Related Items . You will find that all mail related to this contact appears in a new window. Here it is... the list of all the items related to this contact.

Add a picture to a contact Adding a picture gives a personal touch to the contacts saved in your book and lets you easily identify who sent the e-mail to you. When you receive a message from a contact with a photo, their picture appears in the preview pane. You can add a picture to any contact in the Entourage Address Book. Here is the procedure to add a picture in an Address book: Click Address Book . In your address book, double-click a contact. On the Personal tab, drag a picture to the box labeled Drag and drop image here . Tip To remove a picture from a contact, drag the picture to the Mac OS X trash. Close and save the contact. Notice that the picture appears in the contact's address book record.