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How to Shift-Insert (Paste) with a Mac Keyboard on Windows Boot Camp
December 24, 2012If you are lover of Apple hardware and Microsoft software, you’ll often find yourself trying to balance delicately between the two corporate giants. One of those little things you miss on a Windows keyboard is the “Insert” key, especially if you are a frequent Vim user. After all, how else are you supposed to copy [...]
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Mimic Apple Font Lucida Grande on Windows in Photoshop
October 20, 2011If you’re a Windows user and want to get the famously clean look of Apple’s de facto font “Lucida Grande” you can do just about as good a job with the built-in Windows font Lucida Sans. The differences between the fonts are minimal, but if you just use a straight up substitution in Photoshop, you’ll [...]
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Enable Single Tap Clicking on Windows Boot Camp
June 23, 2011If you’ve been used to using a Windows-based laptop machine and are used to the single tap clicking functionality of your trackpad, then you will find this feature sorely missing on a Boot Camp Windows install. This is just one of those quirks of having to use a Mac interface to operate a Windows operating [...]
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Boot Camp: Setting Boot Priority to Windows Partition Automatically
June 19, 2011A while ago I needed to resize both my Windows and Snow Leopard partitions on my Macbook since one side had more space that the other needed. After going through a harrowing partition resizing with GParted and rEFIt, I was able to restore normal function to both operating systems with resized partitions. One thing thing [...]
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Bootcamp PrintScreen Capture Key Sequence on Windows 7
June 13, 2011I bought my Macbook shortly after Apple made the switch to the Intel processor a couple years back. The reason? Because they had just released Bootcamp, which gave Macs the ability to run Microsoft Windows natively. Bootcamp does a great job of mapping most of the hardware and keyboard so that the wi-fi and touchscreen [...]
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How to Send Ctrl-Alt-Delete over Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
February 5, 2011I absolutely love the ability to remotely connect to any Windows computer through the built in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) application. It gives you full graphical capability and even allows you to remotely connect a computer to your local disk drives and printers. Though you won’t be able to watch a movie, it works fine [...]