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January 15th, 2007

Opening Web Pages in the Background While You Browse

A Firefox (and perhaps other tabbed browser?) quick tip.

I’m pretty sold on Firefox and absolutely dependent on its tabbed browsing feature. For those of you who don’t know what tabbed browsing is, it’s a feature that enables you to open multiple Web pages in the same Web browser window. Each window is opened

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January 15th, 2007

PagePacker

Make pocket-sized books.

I stumbled upon PagePacker from the Big Nerd Ranch while trying to catch up on my Web browsing. It’s a nice little Mac OS X (universal binary app) that enables you to create tiny 8-page booklets. You can either add pages from a library of predefined GTD-inspired planning pages or drag

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January 15th, 2007

Mac OS Versions, builds included with Intel-based Macs

More reference information for Mac OS users.

A week or so ago, I published a quick blog entry with a link to an Apple Tech Note document about Mac OS X builds. Here’s another article with the same kind of information for Intel-based Macs: Mac OS: Versions, builds included with Intel-based Macs.

The article

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January 15th, 2007

Minimize the Ribbon

Getting back some screen real estate.

One of the things that you might find bothersome about Excel 2007′s Ribbon is the amount of space it takes up at the top of the workbook window. Fortunately, you can get it out of the way and recover that space. Here’s how.

Right click on any button

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