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10 Second Tip: Customize Your Toolbars

by Wyn Matthews March 11, 2010 10-Second Tips

When Apple releases a product, they have to set the interface in such a way that it’s “fits” a broad range of user ability and experience.  Once you own the product, it’s time to make it “yours” by customizing the way it looks and works. One cool place to do that is the Finder and [...]

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10 Second Tip: Save your pages without Abusing your Bookmarks

by Chris Foley March 9, 2010 Digital Lifestyle

Does this sound familiar?  You’re surfing the internet, and you come across an article or a website that you really really want to read, but you don’t have the time or the energy to take it all in right now.  So you bookmark the page, with the intention of revisiting it soon.  But you don’t. [...]

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

by Chris Foley February 8, 2010 10-Second Tips

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

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 [...]

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The Most Important iPhone Troubleshooting Tip

by Wyn Matthews January 12, 2010 The Pod @Work

I love my iPhone. Most iPhone users I encounter feel the same. Occasionally I meet someone who says they really don’t like it. I met Nick at a friend’s house. He said “ I’m sorry I got an iPhone. It just takes too many steps to do anything and it constantly interrupts my phone calls [...]

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Adobe Shortcut App Makes Finding Hotkeys Easier

by Chris Foley August 18, 2009 10-Second Tips

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 [...]

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