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Keyboard shortcuts… faster and easier computing

March 20, 2012

Unless you’re using a mouse and/or tablet exclusively, you’re like me, and have your hands on the keyboard most of the time. I, for one, resent the time and effort it takes to move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse, click or drag something, then back to the keyboard. I love shortcuts, because [...]

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4 Essential PDF Tips for Snow Leopard

December 28, 2009

From Macworld today, four great tips for working with PDFs in Snow Leopard, paraphrased below: 1. E-Mail PDFs with one click Many of us use the PDF button at the bottom of the Print dialogue box to save a document as a PDF. That’s a great trick available in Leopard. Another great trick is the [...]

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Reassessing the Apple Tax

June 15, 2009

by Michael Scalisi, PC World The following article is reprinted from the BizFeed blog at PCWorld.com. Macs are often criticized for the high price of their hardware. This so-called Apple tax is the premium that Apple computers usually cost over comparably equipped PCs. But since the company dropped prices on its laptop line yesterday, that [...]

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Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

April 1, 2009

Some of my clients are power users, some are recent PC people, and most are somewhere in the vast middle ground. One thing I’ve noticed is that many don’t know or use keyboard shortcuts. They save me so much time and wrist pain that I don’t know what I’d do without ‘em. I thought I’d [...]

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Apple Online Seminar: New to the Mac

April 22, 2008

Apple offers a number of free, on-demand online seminars. One I highly recommend for new Mac users and business users curious about the Mac is New to the Mac and Compatibility with Windows. Part One: New to the Mac is intended for small business users new to the Mac, or who are thinking about moving [...]

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