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And let there be no doubt, when the phone hits global streets on July 11, people will rejoice, the coffers at Apple HQ in Cupertino will once again groan with excess and mobile carriers from AT&T to Vodaphone to O2 will breathe …

Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe Acrobat 9. According to Adobe’s website, new or enhanced features include:

- Capturing web pages as PDF
- Insert video (FLV or H.264) into PDF. Video can be marked up.
- Con…

I write long structured documents using Word for Mac. One of my big gripes has been how Word seems to repaginate every time you look at it funny, and how long it takes to do that repagination on long documents. I am a heavy user of styleref fields to automatically generate text for me.

On a hunch, I removed the styleref entry I was using in the footer, and simply typed the text in directly. My 370 page document now repaginates in less than two seconds, compared to the thirty seconds it was taking before. So, on the odd chance that anyone else might be suffering the same issue, I thought I’d pass on what worked for me.

Display toggle and screen switching via ExpressKey or button activation is only available in the Wacom driver for professional products, and (unfortuantely) is not included in the driver for the Graphire series and below. An alternative way to switch between screens/tablet setups is AppleScript GUI scripting, and some people have been successful with this method. However, with driver version 5.05-3, it seems impossible to reach the GUI elements in the “Details…” sub-menu with AppleScript. Direct scripting of the PenTabletDriver.app should also be possible (according to the AppleScript Editor’s Dictionary function), but does not work.

So I looked for an alternative, and ended up with the following, which I use to toggle between my two screens and “all screens” — and it can easily be changed to fit other setups.

1. Launch the AppleScript Editor and save three empty scripts as applications to your preferred place (e.g. Applications in your home-directory). I’ve named min…

   

   

Here’s an easy way to keep an eye on console log files. Launch Console.app, then drag any of the log files you’d like to monitor from the sidebar to your desktop. This creates an alias to that log file, which you can then easily access by double-clicking it. For even faster access, though, you can use Quick Look on the alias — just select it and tap the Space Bar, and up comes a Quick Look window of that log file.

[robg adds: You can only drag files from the Log Files section of the sidebar, not the Log Database Queries section — these are more like Smart Folders for log files.]

Unconfirmed reports claim that the U.S. iPhone launch will take place starting at 8am, July 11th at AT&T stores nationwide. A screenshot posted to our forums claims to depict the actual email sent to AT&T managers. Even if you accept the letter as…

On Tuesday, Microsoft released the 12.1.1 update for Mac Microsoft Office 2008. A Microsoft support note details the changes found in the latest update. Amongst the improvements listed include stability and performance improvements as well as a num…