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1) Shut down your Mac totally.2) Locate (but don’t press) the following keys on your Mac’s keyboard: COmmand, Option, P and R. Put your fingers over them, but don’t press them yet.3) Turn on your computer.4) Immediately after turning on your computer, hold down Command+Option+P+R. This must be done before you see the gray boot up screen.5) Hold down the keys. If you...

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Lion. We love the OS. We hate a few tiny details. Here are five extremely handy Lion tweaks that can improve your day-to-day use. Enable each by typing the supplied commands into Terminal.1. Turn off those #^$*%(ing zooming windows Launch Safari or TextEdit and then hit Command-N a few times. Do you see how the new windows fly or "zoom" into place? You can...

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              OS X Lion has made signing PDFs easier than ever before. It's been possible to scan in your handwritten signature and sign documents in earlier versions of Mac OS X, but it was a complex process and one most people probably never trifled with. More often than not, I found it easier to simply print out the document,...

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Convert your PDF to a Word documentGo to Zamzar.com and click the Browse button next to Step 1 and choose your file. By default, Step 2 will be set to DOC/DOCX  formats, but you can choose to convert your PDF to other file types such as TXT, HMTL, RTF, etc. Type in your email address for Step 3 and click Convert. You should...

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