February 22, 2012
- BingoBaker.com ➙ Make Bingo boards to play online or to print out
- Triple-Click ➙ Triple-click text to select the entire line or paragraph
- Safari Reader View ➙ When viewing articles, click the Reader icon to view the page clutter-free with large text
- ⌘-Tab ➙ Switch among your apps that are running
- CopyPasterCharacter.com ➙ Access dozens of special characters to paste in any document
- Slow-Mo ➙ Hold down Shift when clicking the yellow window minimize button to see it slurp into the Dock slowly
- Print as PDF ➙ Save anything that you might print out as a PDF document by choosing PDF from the Print dialog box
- Annotate PDFs ➙ Open a PDF in Preview and use the tools to add text, highlight, and draw on the document
- Combine PDFs ➙ Drag files or thumbnails into the open Preview drawer of another document to combine them into one document
- Rotate Images ➙ Open an image in Preview and choose Rotate under the Tools menu
- Crop Images ➙ Open an image in Preview and draw a box over the area you want to keep and choose Tools > Crop
- Talk to Chrome ➙ Install Google's Chrome browser and you can click the microphone on google.com to search using your voice
- Chrome Image Search ➙ Go to Google Image Search page in Chrome and drag an image file into the search box and Google will search for information about it
- Chrome's Unibar ➙ There's no separate web address bar and search box in Chrome
- Jump to a File ➙ When in Finder, type the first letter(s) of a file or app to jump to it in the listing
- QRreader ➙ Free QR code scanning software (create QR codes for printing at qrcode.kaywa.com - Student explains QR codes on YouTube
- BCC ➙ Avoid the "reply all problem" by sending mass emails to yourself and all other recipients in the BCC field
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