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Usability

How to send group emails from your iPhone

July 18, 2009

Easily address email messages to large groups using your iPhone’s native Mail app. This trick even works with the Camera app.

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Seriously, who runs Microsoft’s Usability Lab?

June 18, 2008

Check out the Preferences Pane for the four Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage). They all look different and behave differently.

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7 Missing Features from the iPhone 3G

June 10, 2008

Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G puts to rest all the crazy rumors about new features it may include. Here are seven features I was waiting for but never materialized.

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How to Send Keynote Presentations

February 18, 2008

Ever tried emailing a Keynote presentation? Uploading it? FTP? The progress counter just stays there, counting, but nothing ever gets uploaded.
The problem lies within Apple’s .key file format. Keynote files are actually folders (or Packages, as Apple likes to call them) containing all the different files used in the presentation.
Right-click on any Keynote file and [...]

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Recreating the Places folder in Firefox 3 Beta 2

February 5, 2008

I recently upgraded my browser to Firefox 3.0B2 and, while importing my previous bookmarks, inadvertently deleted the Places folder.
Firefox 3 offers new Smart Folders that automatically track stuff like your Most Visited Pages, Recently Starred Pages, Recently Used Tags, etc. These folders require a special syntax to create them, but I was unable to find [...]

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Gmail quietly increases storage space

October 20, 2007

Gmail’s free storage has just gone up to around 4GB. I’m not quite sure when this occurred, but this morning my storage gauge indicated 70% full, which was considerably less than normal. I double checked, and it turns out Google added about 1GB of additional space to my Gmail account.

What about your Gmail [...]

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OS X Tools: All you really need to know about GREP

September 7, 2007

Apple, Hacking

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Adobe Lightroom Inconsistencies

August 25, 2007

A bug in Adobe Lightroom 1.1 makes thumbnail images disappear from the Library module.

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Mozy Backup Inconsistencies

August 17, 2007

I’ve been using Mozy Backup on my Mac for a while now. It apparently works invisibly in the background which is good (hassle-free) but also quite dangerous if things don’t go as expected. I haven’t had the need to retrieve anything from Mozy’s online backup -though my friends tell me it works really well, but [...]

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