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Have you ever had a bunch of PDFs you wanted to assemble into one unified document?  Most people will tell you need Adobe Acrobat .  But in fact, OS X already has you covered with a nifty little program called Automator .  Automator is an ingenious and easy to use tool that lets you build sequences of system tasks like moving, converting or renaming files.  In this tutorial, we’re going to use Automator to create a multi-page PDF from a folder of single page documents. 1. Open a new Finder window and navigate to your Applications folder. Find Automator in the list of programs.  See the cheery looking robot ? Double click him to launch the program! 2.  You’ll now be presented with Automator’s various service templates.  For this tutorial, we’ll be creating an Application , so select it from the menu

This tutorial will show you how to speed up your work flow using Everyday Software’s Show Desktop application to quickly access your desktop and the Finder. 1. Download Show Desktop from the Everyday Software website

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Hardware , Multimedia , Apple Financial It’s Monday, let’s sue Apple! Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial is reportedly considering suing Apple over the design of the iPad, claiming that it bears too close a resemblance to their P88 . in an interview with El Mundo , Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial’s president Xiaolong Wu said that the two devices are “completely identical.” In fact, the P88 features that are “completely identical” to the iPad include: Windows XP A webcam A 250GB internal hard drive A thicker and heavier body A resistive touch display (the iPad uses multi-touch) 1.5 hours of battery life Plus they’re both rectangles. With black borders. Ed Sutherland summed it up best at Cult of Mac : “How do you get more attention for a largely unknown netbook at a time when the tech press has the vapors for Apple’s iPad

Filed under: Hardware , OS , How-tos , Tips and tricks , Troubleshooting , MacBook A friend’s MacBook had slowed down to a snail’s pace. Despite looking everywhere for the issue, streamlining everything I could, and yelling at it, it failed to accelerate to usable speed. So I recommended we start from scratch and build it back up with only the things she was using, free of all the other downloads and aborted installs of various software she never used or cared about

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Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , iTunes , AppleScript Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into folders isn’t the most fun thing, and can be especially time consuming if you’re going to be moving a bunch

Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , TUAW Tips One of the great torments of owning several computers is keeping all of your personal data in sync; having multiple copies of the same application speak the same jive. Take The Hit List , for example. I use this app on my MacBook Pro at work for organizing tasks and collecting thoughts like a virtual inbox to my brain


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