If you’re using AOL Instant Messenger (or a similar IM program) in an office setting, be respectful of your co-workers and disable the notification sounds. Those noises can be really distracting!
Here are instructions for the latest version of AIM:
I have mentioned a few services for screen sharing and conference calls before. Here are a couple new ones I’ve discovered.
Open your PDF document in Apple Preview. If the sidebar isn’t showing, choose View > Sidebar > Show Sidebar or press CMD-SHIFT-D. Make sure it’s showing thumbnails (choose View > Sidebar > Thumbnails). To delete a page, just select the thumbnail and hit delete. To reorder pages, drag them up or down in the sidebar. To add pages from another PDF, open that PDF and drag the page’s thumbnail to the sidebar of the other PDF.
If you’re looking to backup your DVD movies to your computer or view them on a mobile/tablet device, you’ll need to rip them to your computer first. When you “rip” a CD or DVD, you make a copy of the contents of the disc in the form of a data file that you can play on your computer or other devices. Here are two highly rated programs that can do this for you:
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