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How To: Combine PDF Files - Part Deux

March 7th, 2008 by Kitten

One of my posts that gets read the most is How To: Combine PDF Files……which refers folks to a terrific 3rd party app from MonkeyBread Software (called Combine PDFs 2.1) that I’ve used successfully for quite some time to do just that - combine PDF files. Until I upgraded to OS X 10.5 aka [...]

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How To: Create a Ringtone for your iPhone

November 5th, 2007 by Kitten

Author’s Edit: A lot of people are interested in how to create free ringtones for their iPhones, because this post gets more views than anything else on my site, so I’ve updated it to reflect both the current version of iTunes (as of this writing 7.6.1) and iPhone firmware (1.1.4).
Update - iTunes v.7.6.1 DOES [...]

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How To: Open a winmail.dat file

September 16th, 2007 by Kitten

As most Mac users can attest, a great frustration is receiving a winmail.dat attachment, which the Mac cannot open.
First off, know that it is not really the sender’s fault - they more than likely simply attached one (or more) normal files when they sent the email, however, the problem (most of the time) is caused [...]

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Putting custom ringtones on your iPhone

September 8th, 2007 by Kitten

Author’s Edit: The “free” method outlined below DOES still work with iTunes 7.6.1 and iPhone firmware 1.1.4 HOWEVER iTunes went back to using .m4r for the Ringtone extension, and ringtones MUST be under 30 seconds. Also, you no longer need any software to sync the custom ringtones you’ve created - iTunes will do [...]

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Javascript not working in Safari? This might help…

August 31st, 2007 by Kitten

If JavaScript has suddenly stopped working - or is working only sporadically - in your Apple Safari browser, even though you have it enabled in your Safari Preferences, I might be able to you……..after spending weeks trying to figure this one out I stumbled across a solution quite by accident.
I have the Debug menu [...]

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How To: Create Your Own Theme for WordPress

August 15th, 2007 by Kitten

Browsed through all the hundreds of themes found at the WordPress Theme Viewer and didn’t see exactly what you want? Don’t have the programming skills to write your own theme from scratch? Don’t worry - you’re not out of luck!. All you need is a good comfort level with HTML (or [...]

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How To: Combine PDF files

August 9th, 2007 by Kitten

Author’s Edit: If you’ve upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) be sure to read my updated post on this topic explaining how you can now use Preview to combine and re-order the pages of PDF files. If you’re still on Tiger (or Panther or Jaguar), read on….
So you have two or more [...]

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How To: Add a Picture to your Blog Entry (Post)

June 17th, 2007 by Kitten

I’m often asked “how do I add a picture to my blog post?”…….. well the answer depends upon what software you’re using to create your Blog, of course, but since many of the people who ask me are WordPress users, as am I, I’ve created this How To specifically to answer that question for [...]

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