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Pulling Photos from PowerPoint
Q: If someone sends me a .pps file with photos, how can I pull one of those out? A: I would just take a screen capture (Command/Shift/4) when that image is displayed. You may find that’s easier when you stop the slideshow and flip through the images manually. If you are looking at the images in [...]
Continue reading...Leopard’s Enhanced Spotlight
24. March 2008
To me, Spotlight was the defining feature of Tiger. One of my favorite ways to use it is to search chat transcripts. We conduct a lot of our internal communications via iChat, and there is not an easy way to archive these conversations for easy access. I enable “logging” in iChat, then use Spotlight to [...]
Continue reading...Now Utilities 5.0
4. December 2007
Jim Alley, the respected editor of Savannah MUG’s Mac Monitor, says Now Utilities 5.0 could be “the best purchase since you bought your Mac.” I agree. If you used to use Now Compress and moved to Now Utilities 5.0, you need to change a default setting to make your compressed files “transparent” to PageMaker’s Place [...]
Continue reading...Charcoal Font Key Combinations
4. December 2007
Back in the old days, it was possible to generate keyboard characters, such as the Command and Option key symbols, only with the Chicago font. Thankfully, these symbols — and more — are also available in OS 8’s Charcoal font. Using the Charcoal font, type the following key combinations to get these obscure characters: Control/Q = [...]
Continue reading...OS 8
4. December 2007
In Mac OS 8.x, you can send instant messages to users connected to your Mac without resorting to email. Just open the File Sharing control panel, select the Activity Monitor tab, then Option/double-click any of the connected users. In the dialog box that appears, enter your message (up to 199 characters) and click OK. The message [...]
Continue reading...Scale Up to 112%
4. December 2007
When giving an electronic presentation, PowerPoint 3.0 users will get better performance and quality if QuickTime movies and bitmapped images are scaled up to 112%. This is because during a presentation, PowerPoint automatically scales them down so they appear at 100%.
Continue reading...QuickTime Presentations Kinda Lethargic?
4. December 2007
Are your PowerBook QuickTime presentations kinda lethargic? Microsoft suggest that you improve screen display and performance by scaling the movie object (and bitmaps) to 112.5%. Why? To keep presentations up to speed, the on-screen image should be 100% of the original size. At 100% performance isn’t hindered by resizing or scaling. Remember, however, that when you trot [...]
Continue reading...PowerPoint for Signage
4. December 2007
Everybody thinks about Print Shop Deluxe and similar programs to make signs to post on bulletin boards at work and school. Try using PowerPoint. I use version 4.0 and the wizards can help you make some very attractive signs that will get people’s attention.
Continue reading...Microsoft Word 98 and Power Point 98
4. December 2007
It’s very clear that there are serious memory allocation issues affecting both Word and PowerPoint. Increasing memory allocations upwards to 20 megabytes and beyond have been the only workaround in dealing with the Red X issue. I’ve summarized below some of the more critical bugs worth mentioning to your readers: PPT 98 presentations saved as [...]
Continue reading...Take Total Control
31. May 2006
If you haven’t discovered the power of the new Control palette in Adobe Illustrator CS2, you’re missing out on some tremendous timesaving features. As a contextual palette, it changes depending on what kind of tool you’re currently using or what kind of an object is selected. Because of this, most of what you need in [...]
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Apple News 
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.
Apple updates MacBook Pro firmware
Apple has released an update for its newest MacBook Pro notebooks introduced at its Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month.
via CNET News.
5. January 2009
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