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Mac OS 8 and Desktop Pictures
Mac OS 8 has a neat control panel called Desktop Pictures that replaces the old Desktop Patterns control panel. With Desktop Pictures, you can select not only desktop patterns, but also a favorite image with which to fill your entire display in place of a pattern. Unfortunately, however, you’ll soon realize that looking at the same [...]
Continue reading...Burn-in Protection — Not Needed
4. December 2007
We all know that screensavers, such as the highly popular After Dark, save our monitor screen from image burn-in (individual phosphors on the back of the monitor screen being continuously excited for an extended period of time, resulting in a permanent ghost image on the screen). What if I told you that’s nothing but an [...]
Continue reading...Quoting
4. December 2007
When replying to an e-mail message, only quote the relevant phrases you are responding to, rather than the entire message.
Continue reading...Paste Graphics into ClarisWorks
4. December 2007
To paste a graphic into ClarisWorks word processor and retain the ability to reposition and scale it, select the arrow tool before importing.
Continue reading...Modem Line Test
4. December 2007
U.S. Robotics maintains a dial-up BBS that can diagnose a phone line at no charge. Dial 1-888-877-9248, and enter “Line” when it asks for a first name and “Test” when it requests a second name. The system will perform tests and determine whether the user’s phone line can support 56-kilobit technology.
Continue reading...Supporting Homemade Hard Drives
21. February 2005
Q: I put a 40GB hard drive into an external USB enclosure, but it doesn’t work with my iMac running Mac OS 8.6 Why? A: Mac OS 8.6 doesn’t include the software needed to access your particular USB hard drive. You need to install USB Mass Storage Support 1.3.5 (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60394). Mac OS X already includes drivers [...]
Continue reading...Print Font Previews
21. February 2005
Q: How do I print a list of all my fonts so that I know what they look like? A: Lemke Software’s FontBook 4.1 ($10, www.lemkesoft.de) lets you view and print font samples. It can print up to 75 fonts per page using whatever sample text you give it, though a pangram (a sentence that contains [...]
Continue reading...Change Finder Views
16. October 2004
Don’t forget that you can change window views using the Command key. Command/1 gives you Icons view. Command/2 give you List view. Command/3 gives you Columns view.
Continue reading...Disable Option/Command/D
2. October 2004
In Mac OS X, the key command for showing/hiding the Dock is Option/Command/D, which is also the command in QuarkXPress for Step and Repeat. So, if you use Step and Repeat a lot in QuarkXPress, you may want to disable the Dock’s keyboard command in Mac OS X’s Keyboard & Mouse preference pane: Click on [...]
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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.
4. December 2007
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