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Safari 5 Reader shortcuts

September 28, 2010

I love Safari 5′s Reader feature. The ability to take a web page with ads and graphics interrupting the text and make it into a readable text-only page is very useful, and it’s a lot easier to copy and paste text to a document. I just found out that Reader has keyboard shortcuts, to make [...]

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Print from your iPad or iPhone… soon!

June 9, 2010

OK, it’s a workaround, but I just read a post at Macworld.com about a new HP feature that will let us print from our iDevices. It’s called ePrint, and HP’s Inkjet and Laserjet product lines and other consumer and enterprise printers will have this capibility. Each printer will have its own email address assigned, and [...]

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Microsoft releases Office 2004/2008 updates

March 9, 2010

Microsoft released updates to Office for Mac 2004 and 2008, primarily to plug security holes in the program. The 2008 version should be more stable, as well, following the update. The Open XML converter needed by 2004 users to read documents created by the latest versions of Office has been updated as well. Back up [...]

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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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Microsoft Office loses suite over OpenXML

December 23, 2009

Microsoft lost an appeal to a patent infringement suit yesterday, regarding how the Office suite opens OpenXML documents. OpenXML has been the standard document format for Office 2007 (Windows) and 2008 (Mac), which has caused problems for users of earlier versions. A converter is necessary to open OpenXML docs in the earlier formats. Microsoft is [...]

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Safari 4 Tip: New Tab features

July 9, 2009

Safari users need help from add-ons like Saft or Glims to increase tab functionality in Safari. Until now, that is. Safari 4 includes some new preferences that make parts of those add-ons unnecessary. Tabs Folder In the General Preference, you have some new choices. One allows opening a new window with a tabs folder. This [...]

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Firefox 3.5 Released Today

June 30, 2009

Mozilla released the new version of Firefox today, but not version 3.1. Mozilla decided to change their version numbering system, so the new version is 3.5. As one of the most popular free, open-source non-Microsoft browsers out there, a new release is a significant event, whatever the version number. The free download is available in [...]

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Final Cut Pro 6.6 Update released

June 23, 2009

” About Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 This update fixes problems with real-time playback in Final Cut Pro with Mac Pro (Early 2009) models and Xserve (Early 2009) models. For more information about this release, see the Release Notes.” Improved Real-Time Playback on Certain Mac Pro and Xserve Models. Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 improves real-time playback [...]

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Tip: Double-up the backups instead of backing up the backups.

June 4, 2009

From MacFixIt today, 06.04.09 Backups have always been a cumbersome thing for most home computer users to take the time to set up and maintain. Before Leopard, you had to install a third-party backup program and deal with proprietary formats, data structure, and compression. Apple recognized these problems with the implementation of Time Machine, and [...]

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Get some space back from iTunes

March 24, 2009

Rob Griffiths at Macworld.com published an article today that made my jaw drop. Why didn’t I think of that? Here’s a great way to get some precious megabytes back, if you are short of storage space, from your iTunes installation. Updates that never die iTunes downloads and installs software updates for iPods and iPhones connected [...]

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