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Tuesday
Feb212012

Hyperlinks not working in PDFs generated by Word 2011? Try this...

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"

I also formatted my links within the Word document as follows: http://site.domain.com/content

Hope this helps!

Sunday
Mar062011

Some of My Favorite Apps

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."

Evernote - "Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web"

1password -Best password manager app I've ever used, highly recommend.

Fusion - I use this app everyday to run my VMs on my Mac along with my customer demos.

Skype -Do I need to explain this one?

TweetDeck - My current Twitter client

MailSteward - Damn good email archive app that's come in handy a few times.

Path Finder - When Finder just doesn't cut it.

 

Friday
Mar042011

Rebuilding Spotlight Index

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