For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - "Extract Pages from PDFs Using Preview"

Quick Tip #077

This week's tip is for Snow Leopard users.

Have you wanted a way to easily extract pages from a multi-page PDF? If you're running OS X 10.6, it's as easy as drag and drop.

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Running Time: 2:42

For Mac Eyes Only - "Just Call it the Mac Pro Air"

Episode #144

This week on For Mac Eyes Only: Mike's overview of the hot new consumer Macs, More on 10.6.2, Vintage and Obsolete Macs, iTunes on Twitter, ZFS Kaput, OWC Goes Green, Boot Camp and Windows 7, Lightroom 3 Public Beta, New MacBook Pros soon?, T-shirt unboxing, Web Travels with Dan, New iMac overheating?, Making movie clips with QuickTime X, iMac won't sleep.

News:
> New MacBook
> 21.5" and 27" iMacs
> Mac Mini Server
> AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule Updated
> Uh Oh, it's Magic ... Mouse
> RUMOR: Magic Mouse Means 10.6.2 Coming Soon?
> Vintage and Obsolete Apple Products
> New iTunes Twitter Accounts
> ZFS No More
> Apple Pays $4 Million to Update Chicago Subway Station
> OWC Now 100% Wind Powered
> UPDATE: Pro Applications Update 2009-001
> UPDATE: Windows 7 Support in Boot Camp Coming Soon
> UPDATE: Acorn 2.1
> UPDATE: Adobe Lightroom 3 Public Beta
> RUMOR: Aperture X Coming in May?
> RUMOR: New MacBook Pro Models on the Horizon?
> FUN NEWS: Apple Employee T-Shirt Unboxing


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Question: Kevin looking for help with overheating iMac
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> EFI and SMC firmware updates for Intel Macs

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> How to reset the iMac's SMC


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FMEO-144-101909 (44'02, 20.1MB)

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - "Combining PDFs with Preview"

Quick Tip #076

This week's tip will come in handy for anyone looking to combine PDFs on the Mac without shelling out the cash for an app like Acrobat Pro.

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FMEO-QTW076-102309 (2'45, 1.4MB)

For Mac Eyes Only - "The Community As App"

Episode #143

This week on For Mac Eyes Only: Mike discusses the one app that comes with every Mac ever sold, In-app purchasing for all, Snow Leopard Server Tour, BootROM defeats hackers?, Loose lips sink Apps, Droid takes on iPhone, iPhone tested on Verizon?, 4th Quarter Results, Mac Classic takes on Dual Core Vista box, Gary's News and Views from Across the Pond, Web Travels with Dan, Jason's MacBook Podcast Tip, Rescuing Photos from an iPod, Securing Address Book Data?, Flash on older Macs.

News:
> Apple Allows In-App Purchasing for Free Apps
> 2009 Snow Leopard Server Tour
> New Firmware Slows, but Doesn't Stop Jailbreakers
> Apple Patents Media State Syncronization
> Back Soon!: Elgato's EyeTV App Pulled
> Droid Targets iPhone
> RUMOR: Despite Droid, iPhone Coming to Verizon?
> Apple Endorses WiFi Direct
> Apple's 4th Quarter Earnings Call (subscribe via iTunes)
> UPDATE: Performance Update 1.0 for Intel Macs
> UPDATE: iMovie 8.0.5 Supports iFrame
> RUMOR: New Seed of OS X 10.6.2
> FUN NEWS: 1987 Mac vs. 2007 PC


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> Marketing or Great Experience?
> Internet on Flight 'How Much?'
> Phones 4U Gets iPhone
> 0% Financing on iMacs in Germany
> Palm Pre Available in UK
> Marseille Apple Store?
>Orange France Decreases iPhones Prices

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> App Classics
> Dan's FMEO Facebook Group

Jason's MacBook Podcast Tip: Moving and Resizing Your Mac's Dock.


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> File Juicer

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FMEO-143-101909 (45'00, 21.7MB)

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - "Audiobook Builder"

Quick Tip #075

This week's Tip picks up where the last one left off when we tell you how to create a single audiobook file - with chapter markers - using Splasm Software's Audiobook Builder.

> Splasm Software's Audiobook Builder

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FMEO-QTW075-101609 (3'20, 1.6MB)

For Mac Eyes Only - "Is There A Mac App for That?"

Episode #142

This week on For Mac Eyes Only: Send in your apps for 4th Annual Essential Apps, Snowy and Guest Account Bug, Skype over AT&T Network, Apple Store Brazil, VMware Fusion 3 Coming Soon, Photoshop for iPhone (sort of), Snowy Update in Testing, Present like Steve Jobs, Gary's News and Views from Across the Pond, MacBook Podcast Tip, Entourage Lock Ups, Genius Mixes, More On Backups.

News:
> Snow Leopard Bug Deletes User Data?
> AT&T Allows VoIP over 3G
> Brazil's New Apple Store Online
> Apple Store Online's Questions and Answers
> Creighton University's Authorized Apple Training Center
> VMware Fusion 3.0 Coming October 27th
> Photoshop.com Mobile App for iPhone
> UPDATE: iPhone OS 3.1.2
> UPDATE: MobileMe Service Updates
> UPDATE: Epson Print and Scanner Driver Update for Snowy
> UPDATE: Apple RAID Card Firmware 1.1
> UPDATE: WD My Book Studio Updated
> RUMOR: OS X 10.6.2 Beta 2 Seeded
> FUN NEWS: 5 Elements Make up Jobs Keynote


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Features:

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> Spotify Goes PayPal
> Sky Songs
> O2 and Visual Voicemail
> Gary on NosillaCast
> Apple Store in Paris
> Mac Bundle
> Where are all the Spanish 3GS’s
> Amazon Kindle Stealth Tax?
> Top 10 Football iPhone Apps

Jason's MacBook Podcast Tip: Managing your StartupItems folder.


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Question: Richard suggests MacFuse to help Bob read the hard drive from Pioneer AVIC-Z1
> MacFuse

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FMEO-142-101209 (44'37, 20.43MB)

For Mac Eyes Only Quick Tip Weekly - "Easy Audiobooks in iTunes 8+"

Quick Tip #074

If you've ever been frustrated by your ripped or downloaded Audiobooks showing up as "Music" files in iTunes rather than Audiobooks, this week's Quick Tip tells you how to use iTunes 8 (or higher) to quickly move your books to the proper section of your library.

> http://librivox.org/

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FMEO-QTW074-100909 (2'19, 1.13MB)

For Mac Eyes Only - "The Magic Box of Protection"

Episode #141

This week on For Mac Eyes Only: Mike in defense of Time Machine, Mac share grows to 12%, iPhone Dock Accessories, VMware update, Apple Mouse to Join New Mac Lineup?, Flash CS5 iPhone App Development, Apple I Sold, Gary's News and Views from Across the Pond, Web Travels with Dan, MS Publisher Substitute, Extending Battery Life, Upgrading Leopard, NAV System Hard Drive.

News:
> Apple's Share Rises to 12%
> New Office 2008 Training Videos
> iTwinge Keyboard for iPhone
> UPDATE: VMware Fusion 2.0.6
> RUMOR: Leaked Ads Reveal New Macs?
> RUMOR: Apple Mouse Makeover?
> Flash CS5 to Export iPhone Apps
> FUN NEWS: Apple I Sold for Nearly $20K


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> Music Industry
> iPhones to be Pulled From Shelves in EU If Dangerous
> O2: No Price Cuts
> O2 to Unlock or Not to Unlock That is the Question
> O2 Sells Out of iPhones
> 30,000 iPhones May Be Returned, I think not.
> Further New Apple MacBook, iMac and Mini Rumours?
>Apple Improved in the Greenpeace Ranking (German Site)
> Apple Expanded Information on Environmental Protection (German Site)
> MCC Group Final Cut Studio Goes Supersonic
>iTunes LIVE from Glasgow
> Fun iPhone controller, not.

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> UsingMac.com
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Question: Tony's searching for MS Publisher Substitute
> Print Shop 2

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> iPod Support for Genius Mixes
> Moving iTunes Library to Another Drive

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FMEO-141-100509 (41'31, 19.9MB)

For Mac Eyes Only - "And the Cans Came Raining Down"

Episode #140

This week on For Mac Eyes Only: Mac Refresh Coming Soon?, Apple buys Mapping Co, Apple Educational Licenses, Apps for Everything, Read a good Vook lately?, Photoshop Elements 8, Bento 3, BlackBerry Desktop App, X-ray'd iPhone, Gary's News and Views from Across the Pond, Web Travels with Dan, Quick Tip Weekly, Home Sharing, Time Machine and Snowy, Pop v IMAP, Cleaning Mac Cache files.

News:
> RUMOR: New iMacs, Mac Minis and MacBooks Soon?
> Apple Bought Placebase. In July.
> Apple Education Licensing Program
> Apps for Everything
> Simon & Schuster's Vooks
> UPDATE: iTunes 9.0.1
> UPDATE: iWork 9.0.3
> UPDATE: Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
> UPDATE: Bento 3
> UPDATE: Growl 1.2
> UPDATE: AP Stylebook for iPhone
> UPDATE: BlackBerry Desktop Manager
> FUN NEWS: X-Ray of iPhone 3Gs video


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> uclan App
> Cricket Apps
> Chapelfield Norwich Store
> Newcastle Store?
> O2 THE UK SmartPhone Specialist?
> Orange to Carry iPhone in UK
> Vodafone to sell iPhone in UK and Eire
> O2 to See Returns?
> CoolBrands 2009/10 UK
> ISP Reliability Over Speed
> TomTom Cradle
> Thurrock Store Scandal?
> Spotted Richard, surely not.

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> The Consumerist
> Dan's FMEO Facebook Group

Quick Tip Weekly #73: Quickly Change Audio Settings in Snowy
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> From Terminal, you can run:
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> OnyX for OS X


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FMEO-140-100109 (43'00, 19.7MB)