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An interesting look at Net Neutrality – Engadget

I sometimes find it hard to explain Net Neutrality to people and why I think it’s important that no one major entity should have full control over the Internet; No company should have control over how quickly I can download information and what content I want to look at. The folks over at Engadget.com have …

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Text to Speech Fun

OSX comes with a number of accessibility tools to make it easier to use. One fun thing you can do is play with the Text to Speech tool.

To access the tool, open up system preferences and go to “Speech” under the “System” category.

[caption id=”attachment_171″ align=”aligncenter” width=”300″ caption=”This pane allows you to set your Text to …

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I Grew Up on a Mac

With many members in our group reminiscing on their first Apple products, I’ve found myself looking back. I don’t recall the days of the Apple II and yet I clearly remember the days before Mac OS X.   I find myself surrounded with more and more Mac users my age who don’t know what the …

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QR Scanner

Looking for a simple to use QR Code scanner? QR Scanner by Grip’d is a great free solution.

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Bugs & Fixes: DNS prefetching can cause Safari problems

Hi folks,

Don’t know about you, but I sometimes have DNS problems with Safari.  I ran across the following article that gives some good information regarding the newest Safari upgrade and fixes for the problem.  I’m hoping it will help resolve some of my issues.

Safari Bugs and Fixes

Happy surfing!

Macmaggie

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Merging PDFs in Preview

Here is a video tutorial from Micro Center’s “Shows You” series on merging PDFs inside Apple’s Preview application.

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Fill in fields on a pdf form online

Hey friends,

For those who need to fill out a pdf form and don’t have a full version of Adobe Acrobat, I found an online site that allows you to do just that.

It is FillAnyPdf – here is a link - https://www.fillanypdf.com/.

You can type and move data around in fields, even add a digital …

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iTunes gets Social with Ping

When Apple announced that they were going “Social”, I was ecstatic. For one, I can’t believe it took them this long. While I’m into social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, Glue, and GoWalla, I’m still getting used to the new iTunes Ping. Essentially, …

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Get 25 great Safari extensions

Found some of these very interesting.

Safari extensions

Cheers,

Macmaggie

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Apple plans to hold media event on September 7th (Correction: Sept. 1st)

It’s that time of the year when the summer heat starts to cool off, football starts going into full swing, college students are going off to school for the fall semester, and Apple releases new iPods. Bloomberg News has noted that Apple plans to annouce they will hold a media event on September 7th to …

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