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<h6>Add Slides to Pear Note from Other Applications</h6>
<p><p>If you have some slides in any application, and you'd like to add them to a Pear Note document, there's no need to save them out and then import them into Pear Note. Instead, you can send them directly to Pear Note through a PDF service. For instance, if you had slides in Keynote, just:</p><ol>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7605" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7605">DealBITS Drawing: SmileOnMyMac Winners -- Congratulations to Caleb Clauset of 2cdesign.org, Maarten Festen of csi.com, and Nick Avery of sympatico.ca, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who will be receiving a copy of SmileOnMyMac's PDFpen 1.2</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7606"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7606', 'show')">iChat Status Report</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7606" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7606">Apple's inclusion of iChat in Mac OS X managed to convince me of the utility of instant messaging, something no other instant messaging program had managed to do</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7607"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7607', 'show')">The Majestic Alps and the King of Keyboards</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7607" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7607">Back in the days when ADB ruled the land, Apple made one of the best keyboards in the known universe - the Apple Extended Keyboard. It was a large, solid keyboard with a great tactile feel provided by mechanical switches under each key</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7589"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7589', 'show')">Macminer.com: Better Mac Headlines</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7589" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7589">Macminer.com: Better Mac Headlines -- As you know, we're highly selective about what news we publish in TidBITS, which makes for quite a job of culling through the press releases we receive and scanning other sites to see what else is happening that might warrant coverage</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Mar 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7592" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7592">Guy Kawasaki's Cover Contest -- Guy Kawasaki, Apple's original evangelist and now CEO of the venture capital investment bank Garage Technology Ventures, is running a contest to come up with a cover for his upcoming book, The Art of the Start</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7593"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7593', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: PDFpen from SmileOnMyMac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7593" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7593">Adobe's PDF format has become commonplace as a replacement for paper, but unless you own the full Adobe Acrobat package, you can't do much more than read and print PDF files</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7585"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7585', 'show')">Adam's March Radio Shows</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7585" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7585">Adam's March Radio Shows -- I've done guest spots on a pair of radio shows recently, so if you'd like to hear my conversations regarding Wi-Fi security, the recent worm plague, our move to Web Crossing, Take Control, and what's happening in the Mac industry, listen to Gene Steinberg's Mac Night Owl show from 05-Mar-04 (you may need to load the show URL directly into QuickTime Player, and I'm in the second half), and Scott Sheppard's Inside Mac Radio show on 13-Mar-04 (again, I'm in the second half)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Mar 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7568" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7568">Interarchy 7.0.1 Adds Polish -- Only a few weeks after the initial release of Interarchy 7.0 (see "Interarchy 7.0 Adds Tabs, Improves Interface" in TidBITS-718), Stairways Software has released a free update to tweak a few features and squash a few bugs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7571"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7571', 'show')">DiskWarrior 3.0.1 Builds New Boot CDs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7571" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7571">DiskWarrior 3.0.1 Builds New Boot CDs -- Let's say you own Alsoft's excellent DiskWarrior 3.0 disk repair utility, and let's also say that you've upgraded to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Mar 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7572" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7572">QuicKeys X2 2.1 Released -- CE Software last week shipped QuicKeys X2 version 2.1, a free update for registered users of QuicKeys X2 2.0 that improves the recording of shortcuts in QuicKeys, offers additional control over the speed at which QuicKeys types text, and the capability to jump to a particular step in a shortcut</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Mar 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7573" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7573">DealBITS Drawing: Interarchy Winners -- Congratulations to Al Guild of mac.com, Daniel Bensky of eastlandpress.com, Mark Ryder of chartermi.net, Rich Mulligan of pacbell.net, and Tom Wideman of wideman.org, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who will be receiving a copy of Interarchy 7.0</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Mar 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7562" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7562">FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is an easy-to-understand Internet service, but providing a good interface and helpful add-ons has meant that a good FTP program is disproportionately more powerful than you'd expect</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7566"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7566', 'show')">How FileVault Should Work</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7566" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7566">We've been uniformly negative about FileVault, the new security feature that Apple added to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, but that doesn't mean we dislike the idea of protecting sensitive data</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Mar 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7548" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7548">Security Update 2004-02-23 Available -- Apple today released Security Update 2004-02-23, adding fixes for a number of Mac OS X components, including DiskArbitration, IPSec, and Point-to-Point Protocol</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Feb 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7549" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7549">Interarchy 7.0 Adds Tabs, Improves Interface -- Stairways Software has released Interarchy 7.0, the latest version of their flexible Internet file transfer and network utility</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Feb 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7552"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7552', 'show')">Adam Interviewed on The User Group Report</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7552" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7552">Adam Interviewed on The User Group Report -- If you'd like to hear a radio interview I did with Chuck Joiner of The User Group Report about our Take Control project and the new Take Control User Group Program we've started, head over the page below</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Feb 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7556"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7556', 'show')">iPhoto 4: The Potential Remains</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7556" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7556">Let's not beat around the bush. iPhoto 4 is better than iPhoto 2 in almost every way, and its performance is so much improved that if you currently use iPhoto 2, you should immediately ante up $50 for iLife '04 or, if you've been hankering for one anyway, a new Mac</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Feb 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7541"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7541', 'show')">Take Control of Upgrading to Panther in Japanese</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7541" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7541">Last week, we released yet another Take Control title, but this one's a bit different. It's Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Upgrading to Panther," translated into Japanese for the many Macintosh users in Japan and elsewhere who prefer to read in Japanese</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Feb 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7545"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7545', 'show')">Consider Me Konfabulated</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7545" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7545">Some programs defy categorization. Bill Atkinson described HyperCard as a "software erector set," which was actually quite accurate, even if Apple's marketing department kept trying to sell it as a presentation program, a personal information manager, and a combination floor wax/dessert topping.If I were handing out Software Erector Set awards today, Konfabulator would top my list</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Feb 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7531"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7531', 'show')">Ambrosia Releases Snapz Pro X 2.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7531" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7531">Ambrosia Releases Snapz Pro X 2.0 -- Ambrosia Software has released a major update to Snapz Pro X, their utility for making screenshots and recording movies of on-screen actions under Mac OS X</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Feb 2004</div></div>
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