Black Friday Deal on Office 2008

Office 2008 for Mac: BFD!

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BFD! Big Friday Deals. Best Friday Destinations. The mall, online - wherever I can find them, I love a bargain. And there is no better bargain-hunting day than Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. En masse, we will drag our L-tryptophan dosed selves off of our couches and into the crowds in search of the ultimate deal. This year, in the giddy frenzy that is the road to Macworld and the worldwide launch of Office 2008 for Mac, we wanted to do something BIG. Bigger than big. The BFD-biggest deal out there.
So, for ONE DAY – if you purchase this coming Friday November 23rd – you can get an additional $100 mail-in rebate from us on any qualifying Office 2004 for Mac product (Standard Edition, Standard Edition Upgrade, EVEN Student & Teacher Edition!) AND, you can combine it with our Super Suite Deal, which means you can get Office 2008 Special Media Edition (about $500 street price) for under sixty bucks, if you include the $6.99 shipping and handling fee for Office 2008 (which we’ll send to you after it launches in January.)
Whoa. That is our BFD – Best. Friday. Deal. EVER. Never seen before. Unlikely to be repeated. Hope you like it. Get the full details and download the rebate coupon
here.
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Week of Tips [Leopard] - Open Files from Quick Look

One of Leopards best new features is Quick Look, it's fantastic to be able to view so many files without having to open the native application associated with files. When you are viewing a file in Quick Look and want to open it in it's native application though, maybe for editing, you don't need to close Quick Look and double click the file. Just do the keyboard command Command+O to open the file.

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Week of Tips [Leopard] - Auto Accept iChat Text Session

There is a not so obvious - but very simple way to have iChat auto-accept chat invitations when somebody sends you a message.

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Go into iChat Preferences, click on the Alerts Tab, in the Event box, select
Text invitation, and then select Run AppleScript: Auto Accept.applescript. This is a script that Apple includes with iChat - so take advantage of it.

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Week of Tips [Leopard] - Folders, Not Stacks

When I heard about Stacks, I thought they would be incredible. Despite the recent spiffy icons that people have figured out how to use with stacks, they still lack a key functionality that I want - and that is to be able to click on a Stack and have it open in a Finder window. When you click on a Stack, there is a button that you can click to show in finder, but now it's a two step process which, well, it takes twice as long. There are view options for Stacks, you can default a stack to show as a Fan or Grid layout, unfortunately there is no Finder view option.

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What I have opted to do is use Folder Aliases instead of Stacks. I create an alias of a folder, move that Alias to my Documents directory, then I drop the Alias in my Dock near the Recycle Bin. Now I have a folder icon, which when clicked will open that location in a Finder view.

Until a View as Folder option is added to Stacks, this is a perfect work around.

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Week of Tips [Leopard] - Convert Drive Type from APM to GUID

Some people are trying to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard and are finding out that they have an Apple Partition Map (APM) hard drive and Leopard won't install on a non GUID partitioned hard drive. A co-worker of mine ran into this problem, and he used this exact same approach as recently outlined on MacOSXhints with great success.

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1. Formatting your external: Plug in your external drive and back up anything that's already on it. Go to Disk Utility, select your FireWire drive and in the right side, click on the Partition tab. Click on the Options... button and select GUID as your Partition Type. Lastly, click on the Partition button to format/partition your external drive as GUID. Approx time: Less than five minutes.

2. Copying your data: Once it's formatted, run SuperDuper. For your source in the left dropdown, select your original, internal hard drive. For the destination in the right dropdown, select your external drive. For the "using" dropdown, select Backup - all files. Click on the Options button, and then in the During Copy dropdown, select the first option that says Erase, then copy files. Press OK to close the options window, then click Copy Now. Approx time: about 100 seconds for every GB.

3. Boot off your external drive: Restart your computer and hold down the Option key. A volume select menu should come up within seconds. Click the arrow under your external drive to boot from it.

4. Re-partition your original drive: Once you're booted into OSX again off your external drive, open up Disk Utility and select your original internal hard drive. Click on the Partition tab on the right side, and then click Options and select GUID. Click the Partition button to erase/repartition your original hard drive as GUID. Approximate Time: Less than five minutes.

5. Re-copy your data back to your original drive: Open Superduper again. Two warning windows may pop up about Volumes not being found, but just click Cancel and ignore them. In the left Copy pulldown, select your external drive. In the right Copy pulldown, select your original internal drive. Under using, select Backup - all files. Click on the Options button, and then in the During Copy dropdown, select the first option that says Erase, then copy files. Press OK to close the options window, then click Copy Now. Approx time: about 100 seconds for every GB.

6. Reboot and enjoy! Whew! So after all this work, you now have a GUID-partitioned internal hard drive that is essentially untouched from before, but now with a proper partition type than can be upgraded to Leopard or have bootcamp installed.

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Week of Tips [Leopard] - Time Machine

Here are some tips and tricks for your shiny new Leopard OS, things that can make it even better for you.

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Create a 10 gig partition on your Time Machine drive, then a second partition with all the remaining space on the drive for use with Time Machine backups. Clone the Leopard Install DVD to the 10GB partition, this way you can boot up off of that partition and be able to access your time machine data in case of an emergency. Sure you can always use your Leopard DVD, but you may or may not have it handy with you, and this method of having it on the hard drive is faster when you go to use it.

Details on how to clone the Leopard DVD to your hard drive is
here on MacFixIt.

Note, I'm still running SuperDuper! in addition to Time Machine, until I'm confident that SuperDuper! is overkill in addition to Time Machine - I feel better operating using both.

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Three Pane View for Mail in Leopard

The three pane 'hack' stopped working with Mail in Leopard, here is an update.

Download here: WideScreenMailPlugIn

This is a plugin for Mail.app (for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard) which turns the message view from a two-row horizontal view, to a two-column vertical view.

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