All the Tipster material is on the MacTipster blog at this point. Later, this site will coordinate with the blog by offering longer articles that don't work well in blog format. So, click the MacTipster blog logo above, or here, to check it out. (There's a sampling below.)

Also, visit my ebook site, 33thingsbooks.com, which offers both the 33 Things and Minifestos lines, some of whose offerings are listed at right. And then there's the Take Control line from the people at TidBITs; the two books on Fonts are entirely revised, with the new releases out around December 18.

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Take Control of Font Problems in Leopard
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Get a map from an Address Book address

You have someone's address in Address Book - but do you know how to get there? You can get a Google map instantly by Control-clicking (right-clicking) on the address in Address Book card and selecting Map Of from the pop-up menu.

Kill the Caps Lock key

I don’t have this particular problem, but many people complain that on a laptop keyboard, it’s just too easy to accidentally hit the Caps Lock key instead of Tab or even Shift—and that it’s an insult added to an injury because they never use Caps Lock anyway. If you have this problem, here’s how to turn off the Caps Lock key’s functionality:

1. Open System Preferences: Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard tab.

2. Click Modifier Keys in the lower left of the window.

3. In the dialog that slides out, choose No Action from the first pop-up menu, and click OK.