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Q&A: Weird characters in a newsletter

When I read this on my Mac, it contains bizarre characters. Is that my fault?

December 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: TextEdit’s Find in selected text, lost

How can I constrain Find and Replace in TextEdit to work on just selected text?

October 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

How to unscramble a downloaded file

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This is how to deal with an email attachment or web download which is not correctly recognised, to make it accessible.

September 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Unwanted Ø

When I type /O in Pages, it results in the character Ø. How can I fix that?

September 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

Check the messages you send

To err is human, but to really screw up get a human to send a message by email.

August 26, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Which text editor for OS X configuration files?

Which is the best text editor to use for OS X configuration files?

August 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Inside Dictionaries and Keyboards

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Macs have always provided good tools to support writing in different languages, and Yosemite has continued to advance them. But how can you tailor and extend them?

May 10, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

Tell Mac speak human

We who forge words into documents lack anything as powerful as Illustrator or Photoshop are to graphics.

May 8, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Text file lockout

When I go to edit a text file that I have earlier changed and saved, the app refuses. Why?

April 19, 2015 Macs, Technology

The joy of TeX

Few computer products thrive for over 30 years: the Mac (31 years young), Unix in its many guises (46), and TeX (37) each spring to mind.

April 5, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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