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The litany of exciting Maker Faire products continues with MaKey MaKey, eine Gerät that turns anything capable of conducting electricity into a controller. Developed by MIT Media Lab students Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, you simply run a bulldog clip from the board to an object and hold a connecting wire in your hand. Connecting over USB, it’s entirely programming-free, but if you find your interest piqued, you can flip the board over to use the Arduino module baked into the hardware. It’s already surpassed its original $25,000 Kickstarter goal and when the run begins, you’ll be able to pick up everything you need for just $35 — but if you can’t wait that long, head on down to the Bay Area this weekend. [Thanks, Ryan]

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If you leave your iPad sitting in an area that’s unsecure and fear someone might steal it, Kensington has an accessory you might want to check out. The accessory is called the KeyFolio Secure Keyboard Case & Lock, and it uses some of Kensington’s famous security tech that has been around in the notebook world for a long time. This case is made specifically for the iPad 2.

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If you find yourself adjusting things in System Preferences often enough, it’s helpful to create a universal keyboard shortcut to quickly launch into the control panels. Here is how to do that in Mac OS X:

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Keyboard shortcut support is a rather unknown feature of Gmail. If you love using keyboard shortcuts, you must know how convenient it is to use hotkeys to perform mouse-intensive tasks. If you’re an avid Gmail user who spends the better half of the day managing emails, then you might want to use hotkeys to quickly navigate between mailboxes (Inbox, Sent Mail, Drafts etc.), and other Gmail sections including Contacts and Tasks. Gmail natively supports quite a few hotkeys used to jump between different Gmail pages & sections, and even allows Benutzer to create custom shortcuts for performing routine tasks. In what follows, we will let you know how you can enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail and create custom hotkeys to quickly perform your routine tasks.

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For the power Benutzer out there who prefer to leave their hands on the keyboard as much as possible, you’ll be pleased to know that the Dock in Mac OS X can be used exclusively from the keyboard with full functionality. With just the keys, you can navigate around Dock items and Anwendungen, access the right-Klicken Sie auf Menü, launch Anwendungen, force quit Anwendungen, hide others, mehr.

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If you’ve used Windows or have had the opportunity to hear a Windows user describe in detail how Microsoft’s OS is better than Apfel’s Mac, you probably know that Windows Benutzer take pride in the right-Klicken Sie auf context menu options provided by the OS, and the fact that they have easy Cut, Copy and Paste for files as well as text. The fact is that all these options are available in Mac as well, one just needs to do a little digging around. When it comes to moving a file or folder from one location to the other in Mac, you have to select and drag it to the new location. This proves that the Cut functionality exists, just not via Command+X. Here’s a little tip to reproduce the same effect with keyboard shortcuts. It is super simple and you need only learn a slightly different hotkey.

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If you’ve mirrored your computer on your television for Internet video streaming, Musik playback, or even general computer usage, you know the setup can be cumbersome.

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Want to share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple Macs? How about using a keyboard and mouse attached to your Mac to control an additional PC running Windows or Linux, and even being able to share copy and paste data between the different operating systems? You can do that with the help of a great free tool called Synergy, and setting it up is easier than you might think.

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Eine Vielzahl von verschiedenen Screenshot-Tools sind in der Regel bieten verschiedene Optionen für die Aufnahme von Schnappschüssen. Einige von ihnen sind gut für greifen Bildschirm Bereich, einige funktionieren am besten für die Erfassung der gesamten Windows, während andere nützlich sind, wenn Sie, bildlauffähigen Screenshots von Webseiten zu nehmen möchten. Jedoch, ein Screenshot-Tool kann nur so viele Möglichkeiten haben.. Da diese Anwendungen sind meist Schwerpunkt Erfassen von screenshots, während ihre Bild-Editoren keine Menge von Optionen haben. Bissig ist eine Desktop-Capture-Software für Windows Dadurch Benutzer zur Erfassung der Bildschirm Ihres Computers und bearbeiten das Bild, wie die RGB-Einstellungen, Helligkeit, Kontrast usw.. Es verfügt auch über ein sehr Interesse €œEvent Capture” Möglichkeit, so dass Sie einen Screenshot Ihres Schreibtisches zu nehmen, wenn bestimmte Ereignisse auftreten. Außerdem, Darüber hinaus können Sie die Screenshots in BMP exportieren, JPEG, PNG, PDF, XML und AVI-Formate. Mehr bei bissig nach der Pause.

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Using keyboard shortcuts to run various commands and Anwendung functions in OS X is one of the easiest ways to enhance your workflow and speed up how you use your system.

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