A photo object is a photo of an object without any background that you can can insert into a webpage or word processing document. Online clipart services such as photo.com and istockphoto have photo objects you can purchase, but here he’s how to make a photo object from any photograph using Pages, the standard OSX word processor.
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Depending on what program you used to create a PDF, the file size of your PDF file can be quite large. If you combine two or three PDF files together using preview, you can also end up with a bloated PDF file. The best way to reduce PDF file size is with Acrobat professional, which can do all sorts of magic on PDF files. But here is a free way to make a PDF file smaller. Continue reading »
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This article describes how to backup your computer using Time Machine. Apple’s Time Machine is simply the best backup system available for the Macintosh – it’s simple to use and it does everything automatically so you don’t have to remember to back things up. You can use it to go back in time a day, a week, or month to find a file that you’ve deleted or changed, and you can use it to restore your entire system should your Hard Disk go down.
And did I mention how simple it is! Time Machine is built into OS X so all you need to do is Plug in an external hard drive, open Time Machine and select your hard drive, and turn Time Machine on! It will automatically backup for you. Here are those steps is a little bit more detail with some pictures to make it real easy, along with some tips on choosing the size of Hard Drive to buy.
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In this previous article I describe how to backup your computer using Apples Time Machine and an external hard drive. Here’s how to do it using a network hard drive. the advantage of the network hard drive is that you can backup multiple computers to it, great for home situation where you have two or three computers.
Here’s how to get Time Machine going with an external My Book Live network based hard drive.
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Jan 10
In this article I explained how to download a youtube video with safari, but it does not work for some websites, eg vimeo. There’s a neat little app here called Cosmopod that will set you back $10 but worth it if you want the easiest solution.
Cosmopod will add alittle button to safari that looks like this:
You simply click on the icon when you have a movie in your browser and it will download the video and convert it to a mpeg movie.
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If you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch you’ll want the latest information that you have available on each one as well as on your laptop, work and home computer. There are a number of ways to synchronise them, but here’s my suggestions as to the best solutions. I’ve choosen the best solution for each area that needs syncing. Continue reading »
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You probably know about Apple-C ‘copy’ and Apple-V ‘paste’ where you can select text , ‘copy’ it and then ‘paste’ it somewhere else, but have you ever wanted to copy two things then paste them both? For example, a username and a password, or a VISA card number and an expiry date.
Or what about wanting to go back to that thing you copied 5 copies ago and paste it again… Enter Jumpcut. It allows you to this and more. Continue reading »
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This month Macspeech have released a major upgrade of Macspeech Dictate and they have also renamed it to include the Dragon branding – Dragon Dictate.
I’ve only been using it for a couple of hours, but I can say it’s definitely an improvement on MacSpeech Dictate. Dragon have put their name on the product, which I assume means they’ve put out something that they’re finally happy with.
I was happy with the last version, but this one is even better. Continue reading »
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