Fighting large Time Machine backups

Are your Time Machine backups growing every hour, being 200 megabytes or more each? Why is your Time Machine drive almost full, while you haven’t made any major work recently? The answer is that your system is blindly backing up more than you’d really care of.

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Sync OS X Lion Address Book with Google Contacts

Apple has added a nice feature in OS X Lion that allows you to synchronize the Address Book with your Google Contacts. Just launch the Address Book, go to Preferences, and select the On My Mac in the Accounts pane. Next, check the Synchronize with Google option, click the Configure… button and enter your Google account username/email and password. That’s it, no more missing contacts!

Selectable text in Quick Look previews on OS X Lion

Quick Look on OS X is a great feature for previewing the images, sounds, videos and text files. However, for some reason Apple has chosen not to allow selection in Quick Look, you can’t click and drag to select the content. We can fix this, and here is how.

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