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Right now I’m stranded in Firefox land and, although Firefox has a lot to offer, it’s made me conscious of all the little things I take for granted when browsing in Safari. These are a few of those ‘little things.’

Installing applications on the Mac is so easy that it’s almost deceptive for new users. Although some apps do have a free standing installation dialog, the majority are housed simply on disk images and need only be dragged into your applications folder. The final part of installation, however, is apparently where new users get confused: you need to eject the disk image once your app is installed. Here are a few ways you can do it.

GDocsUploader removes the clumsiness of uploading your docs onto the web.

It might sound strange, but I thoroughly enjoy reinstalling OS X. The process may be time consuming, but my fetish for status bars, the awesome first launch movie and most importantly the prospect of a fresh Mac running to Apple’s specs makes it a pleasurable process. As far as system defaults are concerned, I’m happy with 99 percent of Apple’s choices. Here’s my checklist for dealing with that other 1 percent.

Every now and again I rediscover something every new Mac user already knows: Photo Booth is loads of fun. Here a few Photo Booth shortcuts.

CompFight is the best way to quickly find Creative Commons images for use on your blog. Use this script to search CompFight right from MarsEdit.

I often use the Instant Alpha tool in Preview to quickly extract transparent images for use on MacMembrane. Here is a quick way to make sure your images look as good on your blog as they do in Preview.

Genius is the best virtual flash card application for the Mac. Read about Genius here and then get learning!

I use Excel almost daily in my work and personal computing life. However, I was still surprised to see support for multiple paged Excel docs natively supported by Apple’s Quick Look.

Make your desktop mirror the elegant simplicity of your Mac.