Guides 11791 Published by

MacOSXHints posted the following new tips:

- How to bulk select photos on an iPad
- Fix a non-connecting Bluetooth controller
- Disk Utility may not warn of a failing hard drive
- View in-browser PDFs in Google Chrome



How to bulk select photos on an iPad
Recently I needed to delete 2,000 photos from my iPad manually. Manually clicking on each photo to select it for deleting would take forever. So I figured out this combination of gestures to do it faster.
Read more

Fix a non-connecting Bluetooth controller
Occasionally the bluetooth process can decide it doesn't want to connect to any devices. Turning bluetooth off means you can't re-enable, but with Bluetooth Explorer, you can force it to do so.
Read more

Disk Utility may not warn of a failing hard drive
While Apple's bundled Disk Utility application reports a hard drive's S.M.A.R.T. status, the information might not be correct.
Read more

View in-browser PDFs in Google Chrome
To the best of my knowledge, no third-party PDF plugin on the Mac allows for the inline viewing of PDFs in Google Chrome, fortunately there is a way. As of Chrome 6, Google bundles an experimental PDF plugin, which is disabled by default.
Read more