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Enable missing Snow Leopard Services

Re-enable a few missing entries from the Services section of the contextual menu in Snow Leopard.

Perplexed by permissionsYes, your Mac's permissions are messed up. No, Disk Utility can't help. Here's why.
Get quick access to recently used itemsOS X offers many tools that help you access things you use day in and day out, but there are also a number of ways you can quickly access items you’ve used only recently.

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Enable missing Snow Leopard Services Re-enable a few missing entries from the Services section of the contextual menu in Snow Leopard.
Perplexed by permissions Yes, your Mac's permissions are messed up. No, Disk Utility can't help. Here's why.
Get quick access to recently used items OS X offers many tools that help you access things you use day in and day out, but there are also a number of ways you can quickly access items you’ve used only recently.
Contextual consolidation in iTunes 9 Learn how to consolidate only selected music and media in iTunes 9.
Dealing with incompatible extensions The words "System Extension Cannot Be Used" at start up hints that you need to update some of your software.
Migrate a Time Machine backup Moving to a bigger backup disk can mean losing all your existing Time Machine backups. Joe Kissell shows you how to keep what you've got while upping your space.
Rotate user images in many OS X apps Learn how to rotate the "avatar" images used to represent a user in programs such as iChat and Address Book.
InDesign tip: tinting grayscale photos Sure, you can tint photos in Photoshop. But with InDesign you have the freedom to tint, adjust, and retint as often as you like, with only one linked image file to manage.
Build your own home media server Do you more storage, and for it to be accessible across your network? Ben Long shows you how to put together a Drobo-like home media server for less money and with more flexibility.
Set up your HDTV for the Super Bowl and Olympics Even if your HDTV is already perfectly calibrated, three extra adjustments can help your new plasma or LCD present sports in their best light.
Bugs & Fixes: iTunes 9.0.3. and the 'remember password' bug This week's iTunes 9.0.3 update means that the application no longer ignores the "Remember password for purchases" setting. That's great, but Ted Landau wishes Apple would have come clean about the bug more quickly.
Reduce iPhoto launch times Learn one way to possibly improve iPhoto's launch time if you find that yours is taking forever to launch.
How to protect your reputation online With Google real-time search and sites like Facebook and Twitter continuing to grow, it's more necessary than ever to monitor your online reputation.
Basic photo editing tricks with layers Learn how to use layers in your favorite image editor to improve your photos and add sophisticated effects.
Troubleshooting a missing Apple TV You say that your Apple TV and Mac ignore each other? Walk through these troubleshooting steps.
Bugs & Fixes: Avoiding phishing scams Want to avoid becoming the victim of a phishing scam? Your first line of defense is usually a little common sense, Ted Landau writes.
Browse command history in Terminal Learn how to improve the way you navigate through the history of commands that Terminal creates as you use it.
Five System Preference tweaks everyone should know Do you know how to display the date in your menu bar or how to reorder your Spotlight results? Kirk McElhearn shows you these fundamental System Preferences tweaks and more.
One way to access the Mac's boot menu If you have more than one bootable drive (or partition) on your Mac, you know you can get to the boot menu by holding down the Option key at boot time. Learn another less-expected way to get to that same menu in this hint.
Capturing iTunes Videos You're a teacher who wants to show educational TV shows purchased from iTunes in the classroom. How?

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