Mar 12th, 2009
Photo courtesy of Elginwx
How annoying is it when you type up a document and the spellcheck flags almost every other word because it thinks that a brand name, person’s name, medical, technical or slang term is misspelled? At least all of the spellcheck programs allow you to add words to their dictionaries, but only one word at a time. Its not easy when you have a few hundred medical or technical terms to enter in. Fortunately, you can add many words into the custom spellcheck dictionaries of all the major word processors at once.
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Mar 9th, 2009
Photo courtesy of ShirtPocket Software and Apple
You know you should back up your system, but what should you use? Apple created Time Machine to make backups pretty easy. However, in almost every backup related discussion, there’s someone who swears SuperDuper! is all you need. While both are great applications, they each have strengths and weaknesses.
Let’s put the two against each other and figure out which backup solution is right for you.
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Mar 5th, 2009
Photo courtesy of SFB579
LCD Monitors displaying slideshows in businesses and schools are all over the place. Ever wonder how they made these slideshows? Ever want to make one of your own?
You can easily create video slideshow DVDs of your vacation, holidays or birthday parties. All you need is iPhoto, iDVD, a blank DVD and the following tutorial.
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Mar 2nd, 2009
Photo courtesy of OS X
OS X spoils it’s users a little. You get used to built-in features that are taken for granted. It’s not until you sit down at a Windows machine that you realize what these functions are. Sure, there are tons of workarounds in Windows for these features called utilities. It’s nice to know that you don’t have to install anything for the following eight features and can just get down to business with OS X.
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