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Mac 101: Capture your signature using OS X Lion's Preview app

by Chris Rawson (Aug 10th, 2011)

OS X Lion has made signing PDFs easier than ever before. It's been possible to scan in your handwritten signature and sign documents in earlier versions of Mac OS X, but it was a complex process and one most people probably never trifled with. More often than not, I found it easier to simply ...

President Obama signs another iPad

by David Quilty (Nov 25th, 2010)

At the NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, an iPad-toting attendee approached President Obama and asked him to sign his 21st century autograph pad. The President replied, "I've done this once before." Back in October, President Obama signed an iPad at a rally at the University of Washington. As Dave ...

5 productivity tips for Mail.app

by Sang Tang (Nov 8th, 2010)

Like Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills 90210 and her flings with Dylan, Brandon and Colin, I've been around the block with mail clients, both on the Mac and PC side.That said, I prefer Mail.app. While Mail.app is simple enough for less advanced users, it also contains some niceties for power users. ...

Mac 101: Making a fancy signature in Mail.app

by Steven Sande (Oct 16th, 2010)

I was leafing through some emails this afternoon and came upon one with an extremely attractive signature block. So attractive, in fact, that I promptly stopped doing the writing I was working on and decided to create my own new signature to replace the ugly one I had been using. I wanted to have ...

First Look: Breaking the print / sign / fax cycle with Zosh for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Dec 9th, 2009)

Does this scenario sound familiar? You're out of town or away from your office, and you get a call from a client. They need for you to fill out and sign a contract, and then return it to them as quickly as possible. Right now, you'd probably pull out your laptop, pull up the email with the ...

Have a MacBook running Snow Leopard? Give someone your Autograph

by Steven Sande (Sep 1st, 2009)

Up to this point in time, if you wanted to "sign" an electronic document (other than a secure PDF), you either had to scan your signature with a scanner and import the resulting graphic into your document, or purchase a digitizing tablet. Ten One Design, the same folks who brought us the Pogo Sketch ...

Random Signatures with TextExpander and AppleScript

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 2nd, 2009)

TextExpander, a $29.95US utility which inserts snippets of text or images when you type a preset string of characters, has long been a TUAW favorite. I only recently learned that it can run AppleScripts within a snippet, which opened up a world of fun for me. Here's a quick script demonstrating how ...

Maintenance utility Cocktail 4.1.4 released

by Mike Schramm (Sep 10th, 2008)

All the way since back when I started using a Mac, the program that's been most recommended to new Mac users in my experience isn't Adium, Transmit, or Quicksilver (although those are certain all terrific apps/reasons to be a Mac owner) -- Cocktail is the one that I've seen on the Top 10 Mac apps ...

Use CSS in your Mail signatures

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 14th, 2006)

I'll have to agree with Dvorak that mail apps that don't allow HTML are lame lame lame. Apple's Mail will allow you to see HTML emails, but not compose them. I guess that's supposed to be a security/annoyance feature, but sometimes I would really like to make an HTML email... But at least we can ...

Recipient-based Entourage email signatures with Other Signature X

by David Chartier (Jan 3rd, 2006)

Other Signature X is an applescript for Entourage 2004 that will allow you to assign signatures based on the recipient or group you're sending a message to. While I don't use Entourage myself and can't test this, it sounds like a great idea that I hope gets adopted by email apps in general. You can ...

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