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Paste Unformatted Text (Slightly) More Easily In Word 2008

Posted by EsquireMac in Tweaks on Dec 4th, 2009 | 1 comment
In my professional writing, I often need to copy text from one source and paste it into whatever document I’m drafting. Legal writing, however, leaves little room for variation in formatting, and most paste jobs are better done with the formatting from the source stripped so that the pasted text matches the rest of the document I’m drafting. As you know, the default paste command (Edit > Paste, or command-v), however, retains the formatting from the source (e.g., bold, underlined, font, size, color, etc…). For most Apple applications (Pages, TextEdit, Mail, Safari, etc…), there...
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Herald Bumps Apple Mail Notification Up A Notch

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Tweaks on Nov 26th, 2009 | 1 comment
Herald, by Erik Hinterbichler, is a powerful yet lightweight email notification plugin for Apple’s Mail.app. Last year, I posted about another excellent email notification plugin for Apple Mail called mail.appetizer. The reason I say that “Herald bumps Apple mail notification up a notch” is because Herald takes the idea first implemented by mail.appetizer and adds some nice improvements. In fact, Erik Hinterbichler freely admits that Herald is “[i]nspired by the excellent Mail.appetizer plugin.” Herald improves upon Mail.appetizer in a few ways. Herald allows you to...
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Efficient Email Notification from Mail.appetizer

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Tweaks on Sep 28th, 2008 | 0 comments
Earlier this month, MacSparky wrote about freeing himself from the bondage of email notification. TechnoEsq wrote about email actually being a distraction from work.  Finis Price (TechnoEsq) says: a study done by Dr. Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University in England, found that “it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train if thought after interruption by email…So people who check their email every five minutes waste 8.5 hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.” While most people claim to check their email every 15 minutes, when actually studied, the average...
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Bye Bye Back Button and So Much More

Posted by EsquireMac in Tweaks on Jul 23rd, 2008 | 0 comments
If you happen to be fortunate enough to be using a MacBook Air or a Penryn-based MacBook Pro with a multi-touch trackpad, then you can get a lot of use out of Multiclutch, a preference pane app that will let you customize-the-crap out of your multi-touch trackpad. I am one of those weirdos who always uses his MBP built-in keyboard and trackpad – even when sitting at his desk. I hate using an external keyboard and regular mouse. Anyway, from the horse’s mouth: Basically, MultiClutch allows you to assign custom keyboard shortcuts in a given app to a given gesture. Want swipes to change tabs...
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