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Determining Your Processor Type
Where to look
About This Mac
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Often when you are looking at new software or hardware to purchase, minimum specifications needed for the application or hardware are listed. Here is where to look to find that information.
 

Using Copy and Paste Between Applications
Moving data
Cut, Copy, Paste
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I'm sure that you are familiar with using Cut, Copy and Paste in a word processing document. But did you know that you can use Copy and Paste to move information between applications?
 
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Three Ways to Get iPhone Ringtones on your Mac
And one method to avoid
One way to set your iPhone apart from everyone else's is with a custom ringtone. The iPhone comes with about 25 standard ringtones you can choose from, but it is simple to create your own ringtones on your Mac.
 
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Zooming in for Fine Control in iPhoto
Quick Zoom

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When editing a photo in iPhoto, two of the controls, Red-Eye and Retouch let you make changes to a specific area of the photo. (The rest of the tools, Rotate, Crop, Straighten, Enhance, Effects and Adjust change the entire photo.) To best use the Red-Eye and Retouch tools, you need to zoom up the size of the image on the screen.
 
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Fine Tuning the Auto Enhance Tool in iPhoto
Override the default Enhancement
The Adjust Panel
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When editing photos in iPhoto, there is an Enhance tool and its icon is a magic wand. The wand icon makes sense because when you use the Enhance tool, iPhoto looks at your photo and "magically" makes changes to improve the look of the photo. The Enhance tool generally does a good job, but there is a way to fine tune its results for an even better looking photo.
 
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