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Thoughts on Steve
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is no longer the same river … and he is no longer the same man.” — Heraclitus
As a professional news writer, I have spent much of the last five days thinking about — and writing about — the death of Steve Jobs. My friends [...]
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A No-Brainer Shortcut for Quickly Creating PDFs
…it sure would be nice to be able to save some time and some mouse clicks each time we want to create a PDF. This month’s tip gives the recipe for a shortcut to do just [...]
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A quick way to speed up Web surfing on all your computers
In every case I’ve seen so far, a quick, easy and free change in the DNS settings of their home Internet router fixes the problem. Switching the router from using the ISPs default DNS service to a faster, more efficient public DNS gives an immediate and noticeable improvement in browsing [...]
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Main Meeting Location – UCF Business Incubator
Location of the Main [...]
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One More Thing …
one thing Steve said that I haven’t so far heard anyone else really pick up on…
by Charles [...]
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By Mike Sullivan, on August 26th, 2010
In every case I’ve seen so far, a quick, easy and free change in the DNS settings of their home Internet router fixes the problem. Switching the router from using the ISPs default DNS service to a faster, more efficient public DNS gives an immediate and noticeable improvement in browsing [...]
By Walt Sellers, on August 15th, 2010
Are you a frequent user of a VNC client application like “Chicken of the VNC” or “Apple Remote Desktop”? Is the complexity of getting and keeping VNC service more than you’d like? Then this tip may be for you.
Mac OS X 10.6 has a nice folder of applications hidden away in the System folder (/System/Library/”Core [...]
By Walt Sellers, on June 1st, 2010
Here’s one I found today. You may have already known this.
If you looking at a contact’s card in Address Book, hold down just the Option key. All the groups that hold that contact will hilight.
If you are using your groups to apply rules to messages in the Mail app, this can help you find out [...]
By Walt Sellers, on April 23rd, 2010
Probably everyone except me knew this already. I was getting tired of clicking the shift button for each letter and annoyed that it wouldn’t stay on like the iPhone’s shift.
I did discover this: to type several capital letters in a row, keep one finger on the shift key. Everything you type while holding that will [...]
By Walt Sellers, on April 20th, 2010
Today I was in Starbucks and started to show someone how NetFlix downloads look on iPad. I realized a moment later that I would need to login to the paid internet service when Starbucks’ login screen appeared. I closed the app and forgot about that.
Tonight, when I tried to actually use NetFlix to watch a [...]
By Walt Sellers, on April 19th, 2010
Do you have new devices in your living room entertainment center that could connect to the internet? Or be controlled by things on your house network like computers or smart phones? Do they have ethernet but not builtin WiFi? So do I.
I have a Samsung Blue-Ray player that my wife gave me for Christmas in [...]
By Walt Sellers, on March 22nd, 2010
Apple is accepting applications from independent artists and small producers of music, music videos and books.
See details here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/
According to the FAQ, they approval process can take a few weeks, so if you want your eBook on iPad, you should apply quickly. The published deadline for submitting iPad Apps for launch day (April 3rd) is [...]
By Walt Sellers, on March 22nd, 2010
Interested in getting notice of when a good app is on a one-day sale or one-day-freebie? Want to know about things of ANY kind on the iTunes store?
Go to this web page and setup your own RSS feed for information.
http://www.apple.com/rss/
You can choose to subscribe to the RSS feed in Safari, Apple Mail or both. (RSS [...]
By Sean Kane, on February 27th, 2010
Hi Everyone,
Just came across this hint on macosxhints.com. Pretty neat.
Use iChat to chat with Facebook friends
Enjoy!
Sean
By scott, on February 18th, 2010
Great article at Macworld: http://www.macworld.com/article/146323/2010/02/tooltips.html?lsrc=rss_main
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