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How To Create Kindle Optimised Screensavers

This guide will walk you through the basic steps of creating an optimised screensaver for your Kindle.  Aimed at the Kindle 3, the end results should look fine on Kindle DX or Kindle 2.  The walk through uses Photoshop CS4, but any version of Photoshop should suffice.

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Degraded Mac OS X performance with Bootcamp partition

If you have a bootcamp partition on your Mac, you may notice degraded performance on Mac OS X.  This could be because spotlight tries to index the bootcamp partition.

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Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X

Quick post on how to take screenshots using keyboard shortcuts.

Save to File:

CMD+SHIFT+3

Take a screenshot of the entire screen and save it as a file on the desktop

CMD+SHIFT+4

Select an area and take a screenshot of that area, save as file on the desktop

CMD+SHIFT+4 followed by SPACE

Click on a window and take a screenshot of that window, save as file on the desktop

Save to Clipboard

CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+3

Take a screenshot of the entire screen and save it to the clipboard

CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+4

Select an area and take a screenshot of that area, save it to the clipboard

CMD+SHIFT+4 followed by SPACE

Click on a window and take a screenshot of that window, save it to the clipboard