Black Friday Deal on Office 2008

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.
Week of Tips [Leopard] - Open Files from Quick Look

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

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.
Week of Tips [Leopard] - Folders, Not Stacks

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

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.
Week of Tips [Leopard] - Time Machine
Time Machine
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.
Three Pane View for Mail in Leopard
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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