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Google Person Finder Gives Support For Boston Explosion Victims

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Just minutes after the horrific bombing occurred at the Boston Marathon, Google’s Person Finder service was activated and thousands were immediately online looking for information about their relatives and friends.

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Google’s Person Finder was developed after the 2010 Haiti earthquake and now it’s being utilized again following another tragedy. The Person Finder site is used to either look for information or give information about someone. Those looking for someone can type an individual’s name to search for that person. If there’s positive information, a message appears that says “Status: Someone has received information that this person is alive.” Details about the person who gave that information are also provided. If one has pertinent information about an individual, they can click on the button that says “I have information about someone”. The page will then be redirected to another one where you can fill in information about a person’s name, health and location, whether you have talked to that person and when and any message to the people looking for the person. You’ll also be asked to leave your contact information.

Since cell phone service was disrupted after the Boston Marathon bombings, services like Google’s Person Finder and the Red Cross’ Safe and Well are vital in helping concerned relatives and friends find their missing loved ones and get information about them. As a matter of fact, within minutes of the bombing, the Person Finder homepage already started tracking around 800 or more people.

Apple Releases iTunes 11.0.1, With Duplicate Finder and Bug Fixes

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Apple has just released their first update to iTunes 11, adding the ability to display duplicate songs, and fixing a few relative minor issues with iTunes 11.

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This update to the new iTunes addresses an issue where new purchases in iCloud may not appear in your library if iTunes Match is turned on, makes iTunes more responsive when searching a large library, fixes a problem where the AirPlay button may not appear as expected, and adds the ability to display duplicate items within your library.

The fixes were previously mentioned as forthcoming in Walt Mossberg’s review of iTunes 11. The update is available now via Software Update on your Mac, or as a direct download from Apple’s support website.

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Mac Tip: Expand All Folders In The Finder At The Same Time

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This Mac tip is provided by Mark Greentree and was originally posted on Mark’s blog – Everyday Mac Support. For more of Mark’s tips visit his site, follow him on Twitter, or browse his archive of posts here.


How to: Expand All Folders In The Finder At The Same Time

Have you ever wanted to open all folders at the same time to see the contents within? With one simple keystroke and mouse click you can do just that.

Please make sure your Finder window is in List view by pressing Command + 2 on your keyboard or proceeding to View > As List from the Menu Bar.

Your Finder window should now look like this:

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In this example we will use the Library folder because I know it has many folders and files within that offer a good example of this tip.

All you need to do is hold down the Option key on your keyboard and left click once on your mouse whilst hovering over the little grey triangle next to the folder.

Once this keystroke and mouse click is completed your finder window will look like this:

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As you would be able to see from the above image, each folder in the directory has been opened showing their complete contents.

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How to Access iCloud Files From the Finder

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One of the most useful features from OS X Mountain Lion is a (finally) finished version of Documents in the Cloud, allowing you to store documents on iCloud and sync them across your devices. Sometimes, however, you just want to be able to access these files directly, without going through an app as Apple currently requires. 

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Fortunately, as Macworld points out, there’s an easy way to access all of your files stored in iCloud directly from the Finder! As we’ve noted in the past as part of various tips (iCloud’s Hidden ‘Drop Box’ Feature and Using Documents in the Cloud), OS X stores all of these files locally. Here’s how to access them, and how to create a shortcut to quickly navigate to the folder in the future.

To access your iCloud documents, just open Finder, select the Go tab, and then Go to Folder…, and type in “/Users/[your user folder]/Library/Mobile Documents/”, replacing the brackets with your user folder. This is the folder that stores all of your documents, and sorts them by which app created them.

You can also create a shortcut to this folder in your Finder sidebar. To do this, simply navigate to the folder, select the File menu, and then Add to Sidebar. If you press the Shift key while the File menu is open, you’ll also see an option to add the folder to your dock! The folder will appear as “Mobile Documents.”

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Mac Tip: Finder Icon View – Increase Space Between Icons

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This Mac tip is provided by Mark Greentree and was originally posted on Mark’s blog – Everyday Mac Support. For more of Mark’s tips visit his site, follow him on Twitter, or browse his archive of posts here.


How to: Increase Icon Spacing In The Finder

If you view your Finder windows in Icon view you may be interested to know that you can change the distance between the icons.

By default the setting is about midway between having the icons severely compressed and spread apart. To access the settings simply navigate to View > Show View Options from the Menu Bar as shown below:

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You can of course press Command + J on your keyboard. Either option will present the following window:

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As you can see from the image above, I have highlighted Grid Spacing as this is the control you will need to adjust either left or right to showcase icons in either of the following two views:

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Obviously the above screenshots showcase the two extremes. You can be more subtle if you wish.

You will notice in the first image, where the grid spacing is very small, that the names of folders will be cut off. This is not the case in the second image where spacing allows the file or folder name to be presented clearly.

In most cases unless you have a very long file or folder name you will be able to read the title in this view.

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