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September 30th, 2009

September 2009 Links

Links for the month of September.

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September 14th, 2009

Printer Updates Now Available

Use Software Update to find updates for your Snow Leopard installation.

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September 3rd, 2009

Using an HP LaserJet 2100TN with Snow Leopard

When Mac OS can’t connect to the printer.

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October 28th, 2008

iPhoto 7.1.5 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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March 4th, 2008

Bento 1.0v2 Update Now Available

Information from the FileMaker, Inc. Web site.

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March 3rd, 2008

Response to a Reader Plea

Please don’t expect so much from me!

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January 10th, 2008

A Look at OmniFocus

A quick review.

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January 5th, 2008

January 7, 2008 Links

Links for the Week ending January 6, 2008.

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November 8th, 2007

Printing Revised Pages

A tip for readers.

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October 16th, 2007

It’s Official: Apple to Ship Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on October 26

The race is on.

It’s now official. You can read the press release here.

This is one of the two dates I’d been debating with my editors at Peachpit. Cliff says that Apple likes to release hardware and software on Fridays. That would put it on October 26, the last Friday of the month.

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March 28th, 2007

Printing an Excel Function Reference Sheet

A how-to for Excel users.

My Visual QuickStart Guide books for Excel — from the edition for Excel 95 for Windows through the edition for Excel X for Macintosh — have always included an Excel function reference. In an effort to make pages available for other content, however, we’ve cut that appendix from

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January 11th, 2007

A Closer Look at Word 2004’s Status Bar

There’s a lot of information there.

Word 2004 (and other versions of Word, for that matter) packs a lot of information into the status bar at the bottom of the document window. Here’s an example of what it looks like:

What appears depends on the view of the document, its contents, and the

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December 21st, 2006

Adding Del.icio.us and Digg Links to Your WordPress Posts

Look, Mom! No plugins!

Although there are WordPress plugins that enable you to add links to bookmarking sites from your posts, if you’re just interested in a few sites and don’t want to deal with plugin overhead (or future compatibility), there is an easier way. Just add the links to your WordPress theme’s template

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September 30th, 2006

Mac OS X 10.4.8 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

The 10.4.8 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies:

connecting to wireless networks using the EAP-FAST protocol Apple USB modem reliability using OpenType fonts in Microsoft Word compatibility with 3rd party USB hubs scanner

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September 20th, 2006

New Excel Book in Progress

After two months off from writing, I begin work on an Excel book revision.

I dove into a revision of my Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide book today. I actually got the first chapter — all 16 pages of it — done.

If you’re not familiar with the VQJ (as

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August 14th, 2006

WordPress as a CMS, Part 6

Adding print and e-mail features.

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June 13th, 2006

On the Intelligence of Quotes

Maria Speaks Episode 27: On the Intelligence of Quotes.

This short podcast is a reading from a recent article I wrote on my book support site for Microsoft Word users. It explains the difference between smart and straight quotes and tells you how to work with them in Microsoft Word. You can read the

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May 30th, 2006

WP-Print

I add a post printing function to the site.

One of the things that bugs me about WordPress is that when you print a page, the resulting printout does not have the same formatting as the page in your Web browser. Instead, styles are pretty much stripped out and sidebar components are added to

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March 24th, 2004

Macintosh Tips & Tricks — A History

A brief history of the newsletter I wrote, edited, and published in my early Macintosh days.

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