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Do you have multiple users and shared printers connected to your Mac? Perhaps you are like me and have a laser printer and also a color inkjet connected. This is useful, but If someone in your house or office is trying to print a large document, you might not want to wait for that to finish. The solution is to create a Printer Pool, which will simply print to the first available printer.

How to do it:

1. 'System Preferences -> Print & Fax'

2. Select the printers you want to use by holding down 'Command' and 'Clicking' on them. READ MORE »

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Q: Chris from Scranton, PA wrote to me this morning and said "Hey Jonathan, where is the app store in iTunes 7.7. I upgraded but it's not showing up in iTunes."

Thanks for the question Chris.

A: No time for the visual this morning, so you will have to Listen to this episode for the answer.

PS) As of July 11th, it's also available by clicking the 'App Store' icon in iTunes now.

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If you have Garage Band it's easy to create Ringtones. With the iPhone it's very simple, but if you have another phone, it's not so easy. For most phones, You need to put them into the MP3 format a format most phones recognize. This tip will show you how to do both!

Let's get to it:

1. Open Garage Band and choose 'Create New Music Project' Go with the default settings, choose a name for your ringtone template, and choose 'CREATE'. READ MORE »

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If you are running OS X Leopard and you use the Spaces feature, you can make application open automatically in it's pre-defined space. For example, you could have Garage Band open in Space # 4, or Parallels open in Space #2.

Let's get to it:

1. Open 'System Preferences'

2. Choose 'Expose & Spaces' READ MORE »

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Have you ever sent an email message to someone and then they said they didn't receive it? Well, it's easy to send it again with the Mail application in OS X.

Let's get to it:

1. Open 'Mail'

2. Click on your 'Sent' box and find the message you want to send again, and click on it one time to select it. READ MORE »

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1. Open Safari

2. Click on the Bookmark icon to open your bookmarks.

3. Select the '+' sign. When you do this, it created an 'untitled folder' Go ahead and rename it to something more description. In this example, I called it 'MyRSS Stuff'. READ MORE »

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If you have a Gmail account, you may have noticed the Chat feature built into their web based email client. This is pretty cool, but you have to be on the web page to chat with your buddies. Well with the latest version of iChat, you can now use Google Talk with iChat AV.

How to do it:

1. Open iChat

2. Go to the iChat menu and choose Preferences.

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