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Archive for May, 2009

Learn How to Type Accurate and Fast Online, For Free

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Have you been meaning to learn how to type, but never seem to get around actually starting the lessons? Wish you could bang out dozens of words per minute, but don’t want to shell out for typing software? Well for those of you who were not lucky enough to spend a few hours per week [...]

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Stop Forgetting to Add Outlook E-mail Attachments Before Sending

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

How many times have you typed up a lengthy e-mail mean to have a file attached, only to hit the send button without attaching that file? If you’re quick, you can usually follow your message right up with a quick “Sorry, here’s the attachment” message. And if you forget completely, you usually return to your [...]

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Quickly Generate Lorem Ipsum Text in a Microsoft Word Document

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Microsoft Word 2007 has a simple shortcut that lets you generate Lorem Ipsum filler text with just a few keystrokes. You can enter the =lorem() function to generate a block of filler text, or provide arguments to the function to customize its output. The complete function for adding a custom block of Lorem Ipsum filler text [...]

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Make a Font from Your Handwriting with YourFonts.com

Monday, May 11, 2009

YourFonts.com is an online service that will make a high-quality custom font from your own handwriting. The service starts at $14.95 and is very simple to use. Your personalized font is created by filling out a template worksheet. The YourFonts.com print template can be downloaded as a PDF file or printed directly from your web browser. [...]

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60 Helpful Mac Applications for Web Designers

Friday, May 8, 2009

“The Ultimate Mac Setup for Web Designers (60 Apps)” by David Appleyard of AppStorm is a robust list of Mac applications useful to Web Designers for working on design projects and managing their business. The list includes project management software, design software, text editors, applications for editing and encoding audio & video, file transfer software, [...]

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How to Move iPhoto Ratings to Adobe Bridge

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

“One way to move iPhoto ratings into Adobe Bridge” by ben42 of Mac OS X Hints describes a process for moving your iPhoto ratings over to Adobe’s file organization & management software Bridge. I wanted to move my (thousands of) images from iPhoto 6 albums into Adobe Bridge folders, but I didn’t want to lose my [...]

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Transfer Your E-mail between Services with TrueSwitch

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

“How to Move Mails from one E-mail Account to another for Free” by Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration describes how to transfer messages from one e-mail account to another with a free service called TrueSwitch. TrueSwitch is a set of services that simplifies the process of getting a new Internet Service Provider by making it easy [...]

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