Posts Tagged ‘os x

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 very brief guide will show you the fastest way to find out what the serial number of your Mac is. Start out by selecting the Apple Button from the top menu bar and select About This Mac . Below the large Mac OS X line you’ll see the current version of OS X (in my case, as indicated by the screenshot below, it’s Version 10.5.7 ). Click on that line twice. The first time you click that text it will show you the build number of the version of OS X you’re currently running.

By now you certainly know that the Dock can be set to auto-magnify when you hover the cursor over any of its icons. And you also know that the magnification can be disabled

You don’t need Adobe Acrobat to create a PDF file in OS X. It’s actually very simple to created PDF’s of any of your documents (even pictures) on your Mac. Start by opening the file you want to convert to a PDF. This can be a MS Word document, Excel file, text file or even a picture. With the document open, select File -> Print… You can also use the keyboard shortcut + P (Command+P) to bring up the Print dialogue.

This brief tutorial will show you how to change the default file format for screenshot (which is .png) to .jpg, .gif or even .pdf. As we outlined in the introduction to Apple Keyboard shortcuts tutorial, taking a screenshot in OS X is as easy as + + 3 (Command+Shift+3, to take a screenshot of the entire screen) or + + 4 (Command+Shift+4, to take a screenshot of a region of the screen). The resulting screenshots will appear on your Desktop as PNG files.

If you’re a recent switcher, you’re probably used to dragging and dropping fonts into a folder in Windows in order to install them. As with many other aspects of OS X, installing fonts is even easier on your Mac. In fact, it really couldn’t be easier. Download the font you want to install, and double-click it. The Font Book will open


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