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Emailing Web Pages
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...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...Create an iCal Event from Apple Mail
5. July 2009
Leopard is smart — smart enough to recognize dates within the text of an email in Apple Mail. When your cursor hovers over a date in the body of an email, a dotted rectangle surrounds the date, and a small arrow appears. Hold on the arrow, and up pop two iCal options: “Create New iCal Event” [...]
Continue reading...The Instant Email Slideshow
1. July 2009
Have you come to dread a certain type of email? You know — the “what we did on our vacation” letter comprising a brief message and a jumble of attached photos? Here’s how to make quick sense of such missives in Apple Mail, using one of Leopard’s new Quick Look functions. First, click the “Quick Look” button [...]
Continue reading...Instant To-Do Lists
2. June 2009
Thanks to Leopard, Mail boasts amazing new superpowers. One of the best: the ability to create and manage to-do lists as easily as writing an email. In fact, you can create a to-do item directly from an email. wSimply Control/click (or right-click if you have a two-button mouse) anywhere in the background of the email, and [...]
Continue reading...Mail Scripts: a Fantastic Add-On to Apple Mail
1. June 2009
This little add-on has come to the rescue twice in two weeks, thought I should share it with you all. I guess I should start off by saying that I’m not a fan of Entourage. With it’s single database file and corruption issues I have pulled my hair out more than a few times trying [...]
Continue reading...Dropping Text on the Dock for Fast Results
26. May 2009
Let’s say you’re reading an article online, and you read a sentence that you want to email to a friend. Don’t do the copy-and-paste thing. Instead, just highlight the text and drag-and-drop it right on the Mail icon in the Dock. It will open Mail and put that sentence into a new mail message. This [...]
Continue reading...‘From’ Email Address
17. May 2009
Q: I have multiple email addresses set up in Mail, and when I send a new message, it does not seem to be consistent on which one it sends the email from. Yes, it clearly tells me which account, but frequently enough I have not noticed it before I hit “Send.” I am hoping [...]
Continue reading...Resizing Photos for Emailing
16. May 2009
Have you ever noticed how freaked out relatives get when you email them high-res photos from your six-meg or eight-meg digital camera? For example, your grandmother in Minnesota may not have Photoshop CS2, and so dealing with that 26 MB, 41-inch-wide photo you shot with your eight-meg camera might put a strain on her system. That’s [...]
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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.
12. September 2009
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