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10-Second Tips

10 Second Tip: Going beyond Mac OSX “Permissions Repair”

by Chris Foley February 8, 2010 10-Second Tips

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Here’s a great (and brief) article from MacWorld’s Christopher Breen covering what to do when your permissions issues go beyond what your Mac’s built-in Disk Utility software will repair. While rare, this issue is one I’ve seen before, often when someone is moving from an older version of OSX (like 10.2 Jaguar or 10.3 [...]

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Tip: How to take a Screenshot on Mac OSX and Windows

by Chris Foley January 24, 2010 10-Second Tips

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The ability to take a picture of what’s on your computer screen (also called a “screenshot”) is a very handy one. If you’re a technology or social media blogger, it’s an essential one.
One of the most common reasons for taking a screenshot, in my field, is for my customers to be able to show me [...]

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10-Second Tip: Backup your Boot Camp Partition

by Wyn Matthews January 14, 2010 10-Second Tips

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Time machine is a breeze. We’ve been a really big fan of Time Machine since before 10.5 Leopard was even available. Backups used to be really difficult to manage, and restoring from a backup was a task that your average user simply could not do themselves. With Time Machine, Apple has put more power and [...]

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Adobe Shortcut App Makes Finding Hotkeys Easier

by Chris Foley August 18, 2009 10-Second Tips

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I just found out about this great tool from a story over at the LifeHacker website, which I read quite often.
Click through to the original article HERE to download the FREE Adobe Shortcut App.
Here’s an excerpt from the Lifehacker article:

Windows/Mac/Linux: The free Adobe Shortcut App gives fast access to look up keyboard shortcuts for the entire [...]

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10 – Second Tip: Change Your Default Web Browser

by Chris Foley July 12, 2009 10-Second Tips

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With the release of Safari 4, Apple has given us some very compelling reasons to stick with Safari as our default web browser. But perhaps you’re still running OSX 10.3 or 10.4 and can’t get the newest version of the fastest web browser. Or perhaps you simply prefer to use another browser such as [...]

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10 Second Tip: Changing your Default Application Launcher

by Chris Foley June 12, 2009 10-Second Tips

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The most common method of opening a file is to double-click on it, right? Well what happens when you double click on your file, and it opens in the wrong program, or won’t open at all?
Here’s a real-world example. You have Microsoft Excel installed on your Mac, but you have Apple’s iWork installed [...]

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