Add Notes to Pre-existing Recordings in Pear Note
While most people think of Pear Note as a tool for recording notes live, it can be used to take notes on pre-existing recordings as well. If you have an audio or video recording that you'd like to take notes on in Pear Note, simply:
- Drag the audio/video file to Pear Note and import it into a new document.
- Hit play.
- Click the lock to unlock the text of the note.
Now you can take notes that will be synced to the recording, just as if you'd recorded them live.
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Office 2004/2008 Security Updates
Microsoft has released a trio of software updates addressing various security issues in its Office suites. The updates - Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.6 Update, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.6.0 Update, and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.1.6 - patch an issue where maliciously crafted files opened in Excel or Word could enable an attacker to execute code on your Mac. The Office 2008 update also updates Microsoft Entourage's time zone information and fixes some Excel crashes that could occur on launch, when sorting merged cells, or editing cells. The updates are free, and Microsoft recommends Office users install them as quickly as possible. Be sure not to cancel or interrupt the installation process, or your Office installation may be left in a non-functional state (if this has already happened, reinstall from your original media and then install all necessary updates before using Office again).
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Seriously, this is why we don't delve into the details of security vulnerabilities - exploits are generally theoretical and have not in fact happened to anyone. Only occasionally is an exploit seen "in the wild" before it's fixed, and that's cause for much greater concern (as it was with the recent Adobe Flash Player exploit).
At the same time, we feel it's important that users know how often software is updated for security reasons - to gloss over that fact would be doing the community a disservice by not acknowledging that security issues are becoming increasingly more common and more serious.
Remember Y2K? It wasn't a disaster because everyone actually freaked out ahead of time. The post-mortem by the media was that it was overblown. But, of course, they disregard the millions of systems that were updated worldwide. Few failed; some did; nothing critical.
The fix is to reinstall from original media and download the necessary updates to get back to the current version of Entourage 2004. It's important to avoid launching Entourage until the updates have been installed, since the initial version won't understand the current database format.
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