Wednesday
May302012
Locking Your Screen
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 10:11PM I recall getting my first Mac in 2008 and attempting to figure out how to lock my screen. What's so hard about that? In the Windows world, I would just use
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 10:11PM Saturday
May262012
Disabling Your Trackpad
Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 8:34PM If you're like me, you use multiple pointing devices with your Macbook. I have several and depending on what I'm working on, sometimes it makes sense to disable the built-in trackpad on your Macbook while using other devices. With Lion (OS X 10.7), is very simple.
Tuesday
Feb212012
Hyperlinks not working in PDFs generated by Word 2011? Try this...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 10:46PM This one had me scatching my head for a while, but I think I figured it out. Go to your Word preferences -> Output and Sharing -> Print -> Printing Options -> Check "Update links"
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I also formatted my links within the Word document as follows: http://site.domain.com/content
Sunday
Mar062011
Some of My Favorite Apps
Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 2:01AM
Updated on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 10:30PM by
Matt Lesak
If your new to the world of Mac or you're like me and wonder what apps people us, I figured I would put together some of my favorites.
Caffeine - A must have if you do a lot of presentations. "Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back"
iStat Pro - "iStat Pro is a highly configurable widget that lets you monitor every aspect of your Mac, including CPU, memory, disks, network, battery, temperatures, fans, load & uptime and processes."
Friday
Mar042011
Rebuilding Spotlight Index
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 11:22PM I ran into an interesting issue where for the first time in a while, Spotlight wasn't finding what I knew existed within my emails. Each time I have to do expense reports (which I just LOVE doing!), I rely on Spotlight search to find my specific airfare, rental car, and hotel receipts that are sent to me via pdf within email messages.
After some googling, I found a method that did the trick:
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1253
After the reindexing was complete, everything worked perfect. Thanks Hoffman Labs!
Onyx is a great free app that helps in several ways (including rebuilding indexes):
http://www.titanium.free.fr/index.php