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Color Management in Flock (and Firefox)

Wed, Apr 29 2009 18:44 | productivity, photography, color profile, tutorials, tip, flock, tips, software, tutorial, icc, Firefox | Permalink

If you use anything but IE 7 you are still out of luck, but Safari users have had this functionality for quite a while. I refer to "color management", which is the concept of adjusting the color properties of devices, like displays, monitors, printers or scanners, so that colors mean the same thing across devices, and more importantly look the same. The adjustment can be done in the operating system

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Word 2007 Performance Optimization Tips

Fri, Oct 31 2008 20:43 | snagit, tutorials, tip, software, tips, optimize, DOCX, Office 2007, performance, productivity, spell check, techsmith, microsoft, Office | Permalink

A Windows user colleague asked about optimizing Word 2007 documents because he is having no end of problems working with 100 or 200 page documents in Word. If you are pushing the envelope in Word use, you might like to keep in mind several recommendations. Here are some Optimization Hints for Word 2007 Defragment your hard disk regularly. This is not necessary on a Mac but for Windows, you definitely

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Save Local Disk with Gmail "Advanced IMAP Controls"

Sun, Oct 12 2008 20:54 | productivity, tutorials, tips, software, google labs, gmail, imap, google | Permalink

I outlined "Setting up Leopard Mail.app with Google Gmail IMAP" previously, and Google Labs has released a new feature for regular and Google Applications Premier Edition Gmail - Advanced IMAP Controls. This tip shows you how to avoid having to sync the GMail "All Mail" folder, thus saving a considerable amount of local hard disk space in many cases. Before enabling Google Labs features, note the caveat

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How to - Remove Leopard Wiki Mailing List Spam

Thu, May 8 2008 12:50 | productivity, tutorials, os x, software, mail, leopard, terminal | Permalink

If you have group mailing lists set up in Leopard Server, these conveniently link to the Leopard Wiki page for the group. However, spam can sully the look of your page, so you may need to perform some routine maintenance at some point. Here's how you can do this. SSH to your Leopard Server as admin, then "sudo bash" to log in as root. Navigate to group mailing list folder:bash-3.2# cd /Library/Collaboration/Groups/itsystems/mailinglistUse

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Tutorial - Making Nice with Mail.app Rules

Mon, Jan 21 2008 13:32 | rules, yai, tutorials, mail scripts, mail act on, mailtags, articles, omnifocus, mail.app, gtd, apple | Permalink

Tutorial Introduction I got Mail.app set up to use Gmail's IMAP, and wrote a bit about it in this tutorial. One of the next steps I wanted to take, was to somehow manage all the mail that comes in from subscriptions, or, regular announcements from colleagues regarding common reporting milestones. In Microsoft Entourage, I was using an AppleScript and Rules, so I reckoned I could use a similar approach

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Tutorial - Make a "Reference Times" Lister

Thu, Jan 17 2008 22:19 | workflow.app, productivity, tutorials, scripting | Permalink

In my job as a consultant, I often need to schedule meetings across timezones, and sometimes do not want to struggle with cross-platform incompatibilities between calendar software. There is some excellent software out there for this purpose, namely 1stClock on the Windows platform, or Vela Terra on Mac, but I thought I would roll my own quick solution with Automator channeling some shell script. Here's

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Tip - Making Mail.app Messages Readable

Thu, Jan 17 2008 21:44 | productivity, tutorials, software, mail.app | Permalink

I have a Macbook Pro, and I noticed upon upgrading to OS X Leopard, that the default message size for Mail.app messages was too small to read. Sure, you can add a button to your toolbar to increase font size on a per-message basis, but this gets old after the 1000th time. Some Terminal magic will fix the problem: To increase the minimum font size for HTML messages, do the following: Open Terminal.app.

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Tutorial - Setting up Leopard Mail.app with Google Gmail IMAP - The Basics

Thu, Jan 17 2008 20:11 | tutorials, filter, google mail, gmail, imap, header, articles, mail.app | Permalink

Tutorial Introduction I switched from Windows to Mac OS X Tiger on a MacBook Pro about two years ago in early 2006, and have been enjoying the experience immensely; even more so with Leopard. I purchased Entourage with Office 2004 for Mac and had been using it with my corporate Exchange server at my company eSolia, but had grown weary of the monolithic local message store, so in December 2007, I decided

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