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Merge iCal Calendars

June 13, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Over the years and with syncing my iCal calendars I have too many different calendars. I would like to simplify them. For instance, right now I have: Work Home Home Chores Meetings How would I merge Work and Meetings and Home and Home Chores? So I have only these: Work Home I know I [...]

Address Book

Create multiple Vcards from Address Book at Once

June 6, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Is there a way to create multiple and separate vCards from my Address Book on my Mac? I know I can grab a group or “All Contacts” onto the desktop and it will make a single vCard with all of the contacts inside of it. But, what if I wanted to make a separate [...]

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How can I make a voice recording on my mac?

May 30, 2011 Read the full article →

Question I need to make a quick voice recording on my computer. Is there a built in way to do this? How can I make a voice recording on my mac? Answer Your easy answer is QuickTime Player. It comes installed on your computer. Launch the program Go to File –> New Audio Recording Click [...]

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Gmail is saving multiple drafts. How to stop it.

May 16, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Why does my Mail program save a draft of every email I begin to write and in some cases save several drafts as I write the email? Answer Disable storing drafts on the server by going to the Mail.app’s Account Preferences –> [choose the account you are working with] –> Mailbox Behaviors. Gmail will [...]

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InDesign Style Syncing

May 9, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Hi Lena, I need help with paragraph styles in InDesign. I know how to create them, but not how to use them in multiple documents. I’d like to have related documents sync their styles, but I’d also like to know how to import some styles from one document to another. Answer Import InDesign Styles To [...]

Adobe Illustrator

How do I sample colors from my computer screen?

May 2, 2011 Read the full article →

Question I have a sample from a client that has this color they want to use on their website and their brochure. How can I figure out what color it is? And, how would I figure out the corresponding Pantone color? Answer There are several ways you can approach this. Since you are needing the [...]

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My iPhone Won’t Sync!

April 11, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Whenever I try to sync my iPhone I get this error “The iPhone cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (13019). How do I fix this? Answer There are several things you can try to fix this. They range from “easy and might work” to “more work but should fix your problem”. USB Make [...]

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Password Protected Areas and Search Engines

March 28, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Can a search engine spider do a search of content which is behind a passworded index page? Answer   No. Search engines cannot crawl a passworded directory as they can’t invoke interface functions. Google (for instance) would have to have your login/pass and the programming to invoke the command.  

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Macintosh: How do I force files to open with a particular program?

March 21, 2011 Read the full article →

Question How do I set my Macintosh to open an eps file with Illustrator, but then open a jpg in Photoshop, all by default — instead of everything opening in @#$! Preview? This is probably a stupid question, but it’s driving me crazy. Answer Nope. This isn’t a stupid question. It’s just not obvious. But [...]

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