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I received an e-mail form Kathryn asking why people were not able to open attachments to her e-mails. After I asked her  A bit more about what was going on, I concluded she was sending .pages documents to people who were either on mac without pages or worse on a windows computer(poor people). What Isuggested to here was to either save the Pages file as a .pdf or save a Word Document Copy.

If you are not sure how to save …

In Mail OS X 10.6 one of the changes is how an email address is copied to the clip board. By default in 10.6 when you copy and paste an e-mail address you get the output in “Name ” . Before the release of 10.6 you could just copy an email address in Mail and when you pasted it you would just get “name@example.com.”

If use use Mail.app like I do and use the copy feature to move e-mail addresses around, …

If you will keep these 10 Mail.app shortcuts in your head you will become much faster at getting through your daily e-mails.

These are my ten most useful, the ones I do remember because I use them most often.

Command-N — Opens a new message
Command-1 — Opens the inbox (try also, Command-2, -3, -4 – neat!)
Command-Shift-M — Closes and opens the mailbox drawer on the left
Command-Option-F — Jumps the cursor up to the search field
Command-Shift-A — Attaches a file to …

I needed a quick way to resize images in batches, and was pleased to find that Preview has that functionality. Open the whole batch of images in Preview; the images will all open in the same window with thumbnails visible in the sidebar.
Select all of the thumbnails in the sidebar (with Command-A, or click the first and then click the last while holding Shift). Next, from the Tools menu, choose Adjust Size. You’ll be presented with a dialog containing options …

iCal’s alarms come in handy for those of us who tend to forget the various little things we always need to do. However, you may find iCal getting cluttered with such regularly-scheduled events, pushing other events out of view. But there’s a simple solution to this problem.

Go to File » New Calendar » On My Mac, and name the new calendar Reminders or something similar. Put all of your reminders in this calendar, and make sure they all have alarms. Then, …

If you have made the move to Snow Leopard then you are using the new QuickTime X. There are a few keyboard shortcut that can help you while using the new application.

Use The J,K, & L keys to skim the video

Use the Right Arrow to move one frame forward at a time.
Use the Left Arrow to move one frame backward at a time.

Use Option-Right Arrow to Jump to end of movie.
Use Option-Left Arrow to Jump to beginning of movie.

And don’t …

Suppose you sent a message to a bunch of people and you realize you forgot someoneor someone tells you they did not get the message. Instead of opening the message in your Sent mailbox, copying its contents, and pasting it into a new message, just select the message, choose Message from the menu bar  -> Send Again (Command-Shift-D), and replace the existing recipients with the new one(s), or the person who did not get the message. The subject and message …

If you ever need to create a template for a document in Apples Pages, here is how to make a custom one in 4 easy steps.

Open up pages and select the blank document option from the template chooser, now click the choose button in the bottom right of the window. This will load a blank document.
Go crazy, you can use all of your creative talent to make your template, remember to add enough text and photo boxes. You should also …

To save an entire e-mail exchange from Mail.app to a text file, select the messages you want to save. Then select File: Save As…, and save the messages as plain text or rich text wherever you want. That file will have all the selected messages ordered by date.

If you’d rather have save the messages as a PDF file, choose File: Print…, open the PDF drop-down menu and choose Save as PDF. This will save each message as a separate PDF. …