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preview tricks

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not too many mac users realise that apple’s preview can do most of their everyday basic image or pdf related manipulation tasks that they normally would use Adobe Acrobat or even Photoshop for…

apple mail quotefix

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ever had an email conversation with multiple replies and eventually lost the ‘thread’ after too many quote levels?

quotefix a little apple mail plugin fixes this problem, by giving you more control over how apple mail deals with quoted content.

Magic Mouse panning

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although the magic mouse has solved the problem with the far too easily clogged up trackball on its predecessor, by simply doing away with this ‘3rd button’ it has created another major problem: how can you pan in applications such as ArchiCAD, Photoshop, etc.? there is actually a really simple solution, install ‘MagicPrefs‘ (free) and … Read more

British English

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at last a solution to a long lasting gripe – the default american spell checking in 10.6… system preferences > language & text > language… click on the edit list button at the bottom, deselect english and enable british english. please note that you need to log out before the change becomes available.

shorten URL service

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if you have ever wrangled long URLs, this is an exceptional macOSXhint explaining how to create a service to shorten those multi line URLs – best of all this will work pretty much system wide.

Apple Mail shortcuts

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you can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in mail, here are the ones we find the most useful: Create new compose window Command-N Open Activity Viewer Command-0 (zero) Add senders to Address Book Command-Y Attach file to message Command-Shift-A Increase quote level Command-‘ (single quote) Decrease quote level Command-Option-‘ (single quote) Send … Read more