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• Lab admin's secret weapon: Tips & Tricks for Mac Management

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Education, Enterprise, Phd, Portable Home Folders, Portablehomefolders, Workgroup Manager, Workgroupmanager

  implementing Portable Home Folders, where user data is cached and synchronized to a fileserver -- is so vital, it's linked from Apple's knowledge base article on Mac Manager. Along with Mike Bombich's deployment tips page and AFP548's AD/OD integration guide, it needs to be in the virtual library of every Mac manager. You can download the

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• How to use a single Mail.app Archive (without losing your mind)

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Productivity, Email, Action Based, Mail App, Smart Folders

  manually copy it to five folders — one for each of the recipients. People like this need more work and, possibly a Ritalin. (See also below: Address Book Group Smart Mailboxes) 2. Smart Mailbox: Date Ranges A Smart Mailbox for email you’ve received in the last 3 days will cover so much of your basic archive-retrieval needs

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• Vox Pop: What Default Settings Would You Change?

  Published: August 23, 2007, 4:17 am

  Tags: 43 Folders

  I'm convinced that, for better or worse, a lot of computer-related habits come straight out of using the default settings. For example a stock Mail.app install checks your email every 5 minutes (I reset mine to Manual ) and, without interdiction, Apple's mail program will also create all your new messages as Rich Text (Nuh uh. Mine?

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• Google's new version of online Docs, Spreadsheets, Folders

  Published: July 2, 2007, 12:09 am

  Tags: Docs, Desktop, Online, Gmail, Spreadsheets, Word, Powerpoint, Gui, Zenter, Folders

  have been clamoring for folders," wrote technical lead Ron Schneider, on the official Google Docs & Spreadsheets blog. In other words, they weren't into the tags thing. One user summed it up quite nicely on the Google discussion forum. "Folders is a great move," he said. "Everyone knows what folders are, but tags/labels still don't make

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• Windows Live Folders debut

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:24 am

  Tags: Microsoft, Live, Folders

  opened up its Windows Live Folders offering here. Nothing earth-shaking, but it has a nice clean user interface and offers 500MB of free storage. You can store documents, music etc. in various folders, send links to friends, make it public, private or shared only to certain people. You can also control read or contribute settings on a folder

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• Merlin & the OmniNerds coming to Tekserve in NYC

  Published: September 14, 2007, 1:48 am

  Tags: 43 Folders

  but Merlin Mann from 43folders.com, a popular site about personal productivity, will be here... Permalink: Merlin & the OmniNerds coming to Tekserve in NYC See all of FM Tech

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• Secure your Mac: Crouching user, hidden folder

  Published: September 17, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Hidden Folders, Secure Your Mac, Secureyourmac, Security, Terminal

  Filed under: How-tosHere are a few very simple steps you can take to enhance your Mac's security - not exactly the U.S. Government's Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, but enough to thwart many end-users.Create a guest user accountOccasionally, someone will ask me, "May I quickly check my email on your computer? Just real quick..."

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• gDocs and Apple Would Taste Great Together

  Published: September 24, 2007, 1:40 am

  Tags: 43 Folders

  I've become an ardent Google Documents fan over the past few months especially as its support for Safari has improved (didn't say perfect; just improved). I use it for collaborating with clients and 43f guest authors, as well as for managing small projects and keeping various small teams organized... Permalink: gDocs and Apple

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• Filing Cabinet: Identify Folders with Company Letterhead Labels

  Published: September 25, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Filing, Filing Cabinet, Folders, Organization

  Add a little flair to your filing cabinet with custom labels. Blogger Aaron Propst cut the company letterhead off his bills and used them as folder labels for easy visual identification. This project is a time investment, but the result looks good and may make filing a little quicker and easier. File Faster, Pull Icons Off of Your Bills

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• Google Releases iPhone-Friendly gCal

  Published: September 27, 2007, 3:01 am

  Tags: 43 Folders

  Updates from Google Docs and Google CalendarWhoa, check this out:The Google Calendar team, along with the mobile team, released an upgrade to the Calendar interface on the iPhone... Permalink: Google Releases iPhone-Friendly gCal See all of FM Tech

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• How do you Describe Quicksilver?

  Published: October 1, 2007, 1:22 am

  Tags: 43 Folders

  Acting without doing SOUNDS good, but (Ask MetaFilter)I really liked this AskMe question about Quicksilver, since it's one that comes up a lot for folks who don't get as enthused about the app as I (and many of you) do... Permalink: How do you Describe Quicksilver? See all of FM Tech

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• Technology for Smarter Ignoring

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: 43 Folders

  Cory Doctorow has a short piece in Internet Evolution called The Future of Ignoring Things that really resonated with me. Excerpt:Take email: Endless engineer-hours are poured into stopping spam, but virtually no attention is paid to our interaction with our non-spam messages... Permalink: Technology for Smarter Ignoring See

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• Mac Tip: Get Recent Documents in One Place with Smart Folders

  Published: October 4, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Saved Searches, Shortcuts, Smart Folders

  files using Smart Folders in OS X. MacWorld magazine explains how: Create a smart folder in the Finder by selecting File -> New Smart Folder, or by pressing Command-Option-N. You'll see two lines of criteria in the folder. In the Kind criterion, select Any, or, if you want to limit it to documents, select Documents. Set Last

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• Fresh Voices on 43 Folders

  Published: October 5, 2007, 2:37 am

  Tags: 43 Folders

  43 Folders launched three years ago, I've been thrilled and humbled by the insight that readers, commenters, and the occasional guest blogger have brought to this modest undertaking. And I've regretted that it's been a little clunky to properly share those insights with the same authority and promotion as your hapless author's

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• Windows Tip: Quickly Access Commonly Used Folders from "My Documents"

  Published: October 5, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Folders, Shortcuts, Windows, Windows Tip

  you need quick access to folders located all over your hard drive, Windows user Denny says your best bet is creating several shortcuts to those folders in My Documents. Windows has made a point of making access to your "My Documents" folder very simple. From anywhere you can hit Win+E to open Windows Explorer, and then you're just a click or

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