If you work with folks who already have Office 2007 (Windows) and are sending you their Word documents to work on, you may need to convert the .docx (XML) in order to work on it in Word 2004 (Mac).
Go here to get the converter: Word Converter
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If you find yourself downloading video from YouTube (or the like) often, there are a number of utilities out there to assist you, like TubeSock. But if you don
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For folks installing or upgrading to Adobe’s CS3, beware that installation of the Adobe Version Cue CS3 turns off your firewall and leaves it in that state.
It seems that a new rule is added to the firewall settings allowing TCP access to ports 3703, 3704, 50900 and 50901. Presumably, this is so Version Cue can download and install updates. However, in this process, the firewall gets turned off. It seems that the installation script fails to turn it back on after the installation is complete.
Check your firewall settings if you’ve recently installed Adobe CS3!
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There are a number of sites now offering online video conversion. Some work better than others. However, this is the first site I’ve come across that has an impressive array of video conversion formats, as well as document, image, and music formats.
Like many of these online conversion tools, they require an email address to send the file. I’ve set up a spam email account at Google for just this type of service. It works great! But beware that there is a 100MB file size limit.
Check it out: Zamzar
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I’ve never had the patience to go through my entire iTunes library and rate each song. But often I’ve wished I could play a party shuffle with my favorites. I have created particular mixes, but unless I change these mixes often, the same songs play. AutoRate is software that automatically rates your songs based usage. So when you play a party shuffle based on ratings, it will choose your mix based on what you tend to listen to most.
Check it out: AutoRate
