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Safeguarding Your Productivity

By Justin Kulesza | Published: January 27, 2012

Recently, my Mac greeted me with a kernel panic (an unusual occurrence for most people). It seems that one of the RAM modules in my Mac failed. It shouldn’t have been terribly exciting. Things like this happen. My Mac had two SO-DIMMS (2x4GB) so it shouldn’t have been a problem. Regrettably, when the RAM module…

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Copying charts reliably out of Numbers

By Carl Erickson | Published: September 15, 2011

I generally like using Numbers on my Mac to create charts. I’ll put these charts into blog posts, emails, documents and diagrams when I need data to get my point across. Numbers has some foibles, but I find it produces much more attractive charts and graphs than Excel, and Excel can be pretty capricious as…