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Purpose:

In some applications, such as iChat, iPhoto, Mail, Safari, and TextEdit, you can automatically replace text with other text or symbols. (In the application, Control-click and choose Substitutions -> Text Replacement, or in some applications, you can also choose Edit -> Substitutions -> Text Replacement.) Select an item in this list to have it replaced with the symbol or alternate text to the right of it. For example, if you select the (c) checkbox and text substitution features are turned on in the application you’re using, when you type (c) it will automatically be replaced with © in your document.

How To:

Goto System Preferences -> Language and Text -> Text

A master password is a “Safety net” password. It lets you unlock any account on your computer. An administrator can use the master password to reset the login password of any user even if their account is firewall protected. This can save the data of a user who forgets their login password.

FileVault secures your home folder by encrypting its contents. It automatically encrypts and decrypts your files while you’re using them. The file encryption is done using your login password. So if you forget the login password or don’t know the master password, then your data will be lost.

Here is the way to change the name of your MAC, which will be displayed while networking also.

Goto System Preferences -> Select Sharing

Now give the name for your MAC. Also you can specify your Sharing preferences and also the shared folders.

Purpose
It is possible to change the date format, time format, calendardisplayed in the taskbar of your MAC desktop. Also you can change first day of the week, your region (country), currency, number format, Measurement units.

How To Do

Goto SystemPreferences -> Languages & Text -> Formats

We can use the ‘Expose’ pane of ‘Expose and Spaces’ preferences to specify shortcuts for showing and hiding windows or the desktop. These settings also determine shortcuts for showing and hiding Dashboard, and for starting or disabling your screen saver or putting the display to sleep.

How To Edit
SystemPreferences -> Expose & Spaces

Here is a way to do this.

Goto AppleMenu on the left-top corner of your Mac
then Goto System preferences – > Click on Dock and place your dock on left,bottom or right.

Here is a quick access.
Goto AppleMenu on the left-top corner of your Mac
You can see a menu called “Dock” go through the navigation and Position the dock

Apple has just issued a statement advertising iOS 4.2, due in November. Apart from the fact it’ll be the first iOS version released simultaneously for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, we now know the official name of a new wireless printing capability.

It’s to be called AirPrint, Apple wrote, and will let you wirelessly beam text, photos, and graphics to the supported printers “without the need to install drivers or download software.”
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.Rar is a file format that is used to compress computer files and make them smaller. .Rar files can be broken up into equally sized parts for archiving and they can also be password protected. To open a .rar on your Mac, you usually need special software.
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