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Adjust Multiple Images in Camera Raw
In Adobe’s Camera Raw application, you can adjust multiple images at the same time by selecting their thumbnails, then applying a change to the active image. Try it with the Crop tool, exposure or color temperature. To adjust just one of the images, click its thumbnail before making changes.
Continue reading...List Fonts in PDFs
7. October 2009
To see a list of all the fonts used in a PDF, and to determine whether a font is embedded in the PDF, open the PDF in Acrobat and choose File > Document Properties > Fonts.
Continue reading...Bridge’s Carousel View
5. October 2009
Bridge CS4 has a new view that helps quickly weed out the bad photos from the keepers. Just select the folder you want to work with, then press Command/B. Use your right and left-arrow keys to navigate. Press down-arrow to remove an image from the set. When you’re satisfied with what’s left, click the Make Collection icon [...]
Continue reading...Add a Background to a PDF
12. September 2009
You can add a background to a PDF in Acrobat, and set that background to appear only when printing, only onscreen, or both. Here’s how: choose Document > Background, select a color from the color picker, or browse to a file you want to insert as a background, and set its opacity, scale and position. Then click [...]
Continue reading...Emailing Web Pages
12. September 2009
If you run across a web page you want to share with a friend, don’t send her a link to it — send her the page itself. Just press Command/I and a dialog will appear, asking for the email address of the person you want to send this web page to. Just enter her email address, along [...]
Continue reading...Add a Scan to a PDF
9. September 2009
You can add a scan to an existing PDF as you scan it: just click the Append radio button in the Acrobat Scan dialog box (File > Create PDF > From Scanner). This can be useful when scanning receipts that need to be added to an invoice, or any other supporting documentation for a PDF project.
Continue reading...Super-Fast Way to Email a URL
5. September 2009
If you run across a cool website and want to email that site to a friend, probably the fastest way is to press Command/Shift/I. This opens Mail, and inserts the Web URL into the body of your email. Now all you have to do is type the recipient’s name, enter “Check this site out” in the [...]
Continue reading...Finding the Right Special Character
29. August 2009
Okay, let’s say you’re in Mail, and you’re writing the word “résumé,” which used properly should have that little accent over the “é” like I have it here. You know it needs an accent, but you have no idea which keyboards combination will create an “e” with an accent above it. Here’s a trick for [...]
Continue reading...Use Acrobat to Generate Hyperlinks
28. August 2009
Acrobat 7 and 8 can identify many URLs and email addresses in a document and add hyperlinks to them. Just choose Advanced > Links > Create from URLs in Document. It works for URLs that begin with http and www, and for email addresses, but fails when the URL or email address wraps to a new [...]
Continue reading...Keep a Widget Active without Dashboard
3. August 2009
The Dashboard in OS X is a convenient tool for accessing quick bits of information or using conversion, translation, or reference utilities among many other tools. Depending on the task at hand, sometimes the requirement to activate Dashboard every time you want to access a widget can be cumbersome, especially since the Dashboard prevents access [...]
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Details about the iPad
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Antiglare Display Option For 15-inch MacBook Pro Now Available
If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, an antiglare display is now available as a configure-to-order option on all 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This display has a silver aluminum bezel, which is the same as the 17-inch antiglare MacBook Pro display.Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited potential conflicts of interest in explaining Schmidt’s resignation.
“Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings,” he said.
Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
via Financial Times.
20. October 2009
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