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Enable some missing Snow Leopard Services
When Snow Leopard first came out, I wrote about the new-and-improved Services feature, including what seemed to be a bug regarding which Services do and do not show up in the contextual menu. For example, try this experiment on your 10.6 machine. Select some text in TextEdit, then Control-click on the selection. In the contextual menu that appears, you should see three entries at the bottom of the menu: New Note With Selection, New Email With Selection, and Make New Sticky Note.

Cure an Insomniac PC and Other Tips
As you probably know by now, I just love a good keyboard shortcut. This week I've got a few new ones for you--but first I'll solve The Case of the Mysterious Waking Laptop.

Get quick access to recently used items
Your Mac is full of files, folders, and applications, and it's always an annoyance to spend time looking for the items you need. OS X offers many tools (for instance, the Dock and the Finder's sidebar) that can help you access things you use day in and day out, but there are also a number of ways you can quickly get to items you've used only recently. Learning these techniques will streamline your work.

PC Maintenance: What Tasks When?
Ruption18 asked the Answer Line forum what regular chores will keep his PC healthy.

Windows on the Mac: Parallels 5 vs. Fusion 3 vs. VirtualBox 3.1
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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Free
You can't depend on just one program to protect you from rootkits, Trojans, viruses, worms, and other malicious code. The job is too important and the villains too numerous for that. So supplement your regular antivirus program (the one you keep running in the background at all times) with an extra malware scanner, such as Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Free.

Dealing with incompatible extensions
Reader Marc Manassian is confused by a warning he sees when booting his Mac. He writes:

Rotate user images in many OS X apps
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Turn Off Windows 7 'Compatibility Mode' for iTunes
Back in December I told you about Windows 7's little-known application-compatibility troubleshooter, which I'd used to try to resolve a problem with iTunes.

GleeBox Firefox Add-on
Do your mousing muscles ache after you browse the Web? The free GleeBox experimental Firefox add-on and Chrome extension let you perform many tasks by using your keyboard rather than the mouse--including some tasks that require multi-step actions.

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