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Thursday August 30, 2007

‘Mac’ is not an acronym

Public information alert!

MAC, when used to indicate a Macintosh computer, is not accurate. Using all capital letters denotes an acronym, which is not correct in this context.

MAC is a common acronym for ‘media access control’ address, which is a set of characters assigned to a network device such as a wireless or ethernet card.

When referring to a …

Monday April 30, 2007

Mac 101 - Drag and drop text clippings

Did you know that you can drag text from any Mac application and save it as a clipping that can be used again later by simply dropping it into a different program?

Even better, it will retain formatting (style, color and fonts)!

Simply highlight the typed text, drag it to the Desktop, then drag it back into the other application!

Very handy if …


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