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Booting Up With Apple’s Boot Camp

April 13, 2009

in Macintosh,Windows

by Nathaniel Poor

You may be a dedicated Mac user, but sometimes you might want to run Windows. Maybe because the huge majority of the computers in the world use it and you feel pressured. Maybe there’s an application at work you would like to run at home. For some reason, you want to run Windows, but all you have is your Mac. And you can!
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Screenshots in Mac OSX

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Take screenshots using Mac OS by pressing command, shift and the 4 key. Then, locate the numbered screenshots on the desktop, where your Macintosh has automatically saved them.

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A Quick Look at Apple’s Quick Look Technology

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Quick Look is a cool feature in Apple’s OS X 10.5 that allows Mac users to preview almost any file type with a single key command. Quick Look doesn’t open the files, but rather brings up a window (usually in the Finder) so you view them, or, in the case of MP3s and videos, play them.

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Ordering Prints with Apple’s iPhoto

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It’s simple to order prints of your photos from iPhoto. The convenient Apple service, which integrates with Kodak’s Print Service, even wants you if your image’s resolution is too low for quality prints – something that may happen with certain iPhone shots.

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Launching an URL When the Computer Thinks It Is Text

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If your Macintosh thinks a URL is text, you can prompt the computer to “Open URL” using the menu in the seldom-used Services menu.

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Amazon’s MP3 Downloader and iTunes

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Amazon’s MP3 store offers affordable (and even free) music downloads that are automatically added to iTunes for the listener’s convenience.

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Fix the Scroll Ball on the Apple Mighty Mouse

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Apple’s Mighty Mouse, which has a scroll ball, is easy to use and also easy to fix. It just needs some care to loosen it up a bit after accumulating “gunk” in the form of dead skin cells and oils.

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