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Mac: Print from Any Application in Black and White (Grayscale)

How I do print from an application such as my web browser without the colors? In OS X printing in grayscale takes a couple of extra steps that are not always obvious. Here is how to do it on your Apple computer. Updated to include information for OS X 10.7 Lion.

How to Update Your Facebook Status by Email

By using your email client to update your Facebook status, you are less likely to be distracted by what others are doing so you can get back to your project or studies while keeping your friends informed.

Office 365: Automatically Empty Outlook’s Deleted Items When Signing Out

If you are worried about your Deleted Items folder becoming overly large, you can configure the Outlook Web App to automatically empty the Deleted Items folder whenever you sign out of Office 365. This comes in especially handy when you are concerned about size limits on how large your inbox can be.

Office 365: Change How Messages Are Marked as Read in Outlook’s Reading Pane

By default, the Outlook Web App marks items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane whenever the selection changes. You can turn this functionality off, or have Outlook wait a certain amount of time before marking the item as read.

OS X Lion: How to Change Launchpad’s Background (Wallpaper) Effect

By using a simple keyboard combination, you can change the background effect for Launchpad to make it more to your liking. The effects include either color or black and white versions of normal or blurred.

Office 365: How to Add External Contacts to the Global Address List

Since some aspect of your work is sure to require corresponding with contacts outside your organization, such as customers, services, or other colleagues who aren’t part of your company. These contacts can be added to your Global Address List so that they can be easily accessed by your team.

OS X Lion: Disable the New Window Animation

Lion’s new window animation is fairly subtle, but still, there are those that dislike it. Basically, the animation grows the new window from a tiny version of itself. Here’s how to go about disabling it.

Google+: Backup your data

When using online social services such as Google+ (Google Plus), it is important to backup your data incase something bad happen to your account. This tutorial shows you how to backup your Google Plus data which includes Circles and Stream as well as Google Profile, Picasa Web photos and Google Buzz data.

OS X Lion: How to Easily Open a New Terminal or Terminal Tab at a Folder

If you use Terminal quite a bit, there’s two services that you should enable. They will make it simple to open Terminal (or a Terminal Tab) at a specific folder instead of having to type out the path in Terminal itself.

OS X Lion: How to Select Multiple Ranges of Files in Finder

If you need to move or copy a large number of files from a folder to another location, selecting multiple ranges will save you lots of time compared to selecting each individual file.

OS X Lion: How to Disable the Screen Flash in Photo Booth

If you find that Photo Booth’s screen flash is negatively impacting your photos, you can disable this function without having to rely on the old trick of holding down the Shift key.

OS X Lion: How to Disable Automatic Spelling Correction

OS X Lion has automatic spelling correction enabled by default. Unfortunately, autocorrect is not always a help to everyone, in fact in can get rather annoying. Here’s how to disable automatic spelling correction.

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