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If you live and work in Australia then you will usually print to A4 paper, not US letter. Run this program to make A4 your system's default.
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The quintessential Adobe Acrobat reader is required to read PDF files. PDF files are a compact method of distributing publishable content in its original form, and you will find them used extensively for publications ranging from technical documents to press releases.
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Compiling a bibliography and presenting it in MLA format can be a real pain. Unless you enter all your books, articles, speeches and other sources into Bibliographer and allow it to create your sorted, formatted bibliography, ready for copy-pasting into your word processor of choice. It even knows to skip words like "a" and "the" when alphabetising your entries.
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Having to use a different instant messaging (IM) client to connect to each IM network is a real pain. Fire tries to solve this problem by connecting to them all. This version works with the AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and Jabber networks, but currently does not work with the Yahoo network due to a change in its mode of operation.
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Via Mac OS X's Show Info command, you can view when a file was created, modified and the applications you can use to edit it. Via Mac OS X's Terminal, you can view a file's Unix permissions. With InfoEdit, you can edit these settings and more via a simple point-and-click interface, which can be very handy when troubleshooting a stubborn file.
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No longer need you swap between your Web browser, FTP client, Hotline and Carracho clients, Napster, OpenNapster and Gnutella network clients, as iSwipe does the job of all these programs. It enables you to find and download the files you need more quickly, regardless of where they are on the Internet.
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Usenet is one of the oldest and liveliest Internet communities. MT-NewsWatcher 3.2 is a new Mac OS X version of one of the oldest Macintosh programs for browsing, chatting and grabbing files off Usenet. It automatically rejoins and previews segmented image files and has loads of other useful features.
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System Preferences will let you change a few dozen of Mac OS X's system settings. TinkerTool will let you edit a few dozen more, such as the style of scrolling arrows in Finder windows and the default font used by Cocoa applications. It can even make the icons of hidden applications transparent in the Dock.
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