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10 Second Tip: Going beyond Mac OSX "Permissions Repair"

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by Chris Foley on February 8, 2010

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

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by Chris Foley on January 24, 2010

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 Chris Foley on January 12, 2010

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 on August 18, 2009

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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10 – Second Tip: Change Your Default Web Browser

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by Chris Foley on July 12, 2009

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

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by Chris Foley on June 12, 2009

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 as [...]

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