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  Chris Christensen March 31, 2011 at 9:40pm

  Evelyn, clearly you have not met my parents who use one of my old Macs. I spent an hour on the phone recently trying to walk my dad through reading a text message on his cell phone so we could reset his yahoo.com password. I love my parents dearly but seriously, kill me now.
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  Allan Lynch March 31, 2011 at 9:40pm

  Evelyn, you're kind. Some days I can barely open a can. But then I'm left-handed - thank gawd for the Black & Decker automated can opener!

   

  I just downloaded the Firefox and discovered I already had an older version of it on my MacBook Pro! A friend's husband who is a professional lobster fisherman accuses me of using the computer as a glorified typewriter. That works for me. Another friend who gave up being a writer to become a doctor once told me his new computer could do everything but make coffee and he wasn't so sure it couldn't do that.

   

  I am looking at buying a smaller MacBook Pro for travel. I looked at the Mac Air but my Mac dealer shook his head at it. I have considered the iPAD, but a webmaster I know in the UK isn't that keen on it. Pretty, but not a lot of function was his verdict, but I wasn't sure if he was speaking for his work or mine.

   

  When I travel I really do like to simply sit in a cafe for an hour each day and scribble notes in my moleskin. I seem to make different observations with pen and paper than fingers on keys. And with paper I worry less that someone will steal it or that it will get damaged or trying to not fry it on a strange electrical system. See, l-u-d-d-i-t-e.
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  Evelyn Kanter March 31, 2011 at 9:25pm

  Allan -- The words Luddite and Mac are an oxymoron.  If you are a Mac user, you are not a Luddite. Does not compute (pun intended).  

  I use both Safari and Firefox on my Macs (plural -- iMac for office, MacBook for travel).  Firefox is much better for bookmarking and remembering log-in info.  You'll love it.  I use Safari less and less these days (please don't tell them).

  Ed -- Didn't know about the Screengrabber add-on.  Brilliant! Sounds easier than Mac's own built-in system. 
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  Maralyn D Hill March 31, 2011 at 9:21pm

  Thanks, this is a great one.
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  Allan Lynch March 31, 2011 at 9:17pm

  Thanks Eric.
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  Gigi Renee Ragland March 31, 2011 at 9:06pm

  I just added the screen grabber to Firefox and it's a great addition. Wish I had thought of it earlier. Ed, thanks so much for the prompt!  To add a screen grabber in Firefox go to the search icon at the top right of the screen and type in "screen grabber" to get options that will work for you best.
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  Eric Theriault March 31, 2011 at 9:02pm

  Allan, you can download Firefox at http://getfirefox.com
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  Allan Lynch March 31, 2011 at 9:00pm

  Hi,

   

  Luddite here - which means I'm a life-long Mac owner. Where does one find firefox?
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  Ed Wetschler March 31, 2011 at 8:33pm

  Boy, are you ever right, Buzzy. I always recommend that people download Firefox as a (free) browser, if only to get the add-on called Screengrabber. That way you can save all your online clips as jpgs. 

  FYI, I've tried doing this with other add-ons and with Safari as my browser, but I've not been as satisfied with any other way to do this. Please chime in if you've had better luck than me with non-Screengrabber screengrabbers.
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  Buzzy Gordon March 31, 2011 at 8:27pm

  WARNING: Your online clips are not safe and can irretrievably disappear!
  

   

  I just discovered that a number of my bylined clips have been lost forever, due either to a publication going out of business (Executive Traveler), or worse -- a particularly vindictive act on the part of Questex. In 2008, I wrote a number of articles for Travel Agent Magazine and Luxury Travel Advisor; when I recently went to search for them in the magazines’ archives, my name never turned up in the results.

  I subsequently performed individual searches for the articles, and those did turn up (actually, one still has not) – but my byline had been systematically eliminated, one by one: the pieces were/are now attributed to an anonymous contributor.

  Fortunately, in a few instances, the articles had been republished on other websites before the nefarious minds at Questex got around to sanitizing my byline.

  My advice to everyone is to store the online version (as soon is it appears) in a protected virtual environment, to ensure its continued integrity. If applicable, secure a hard copy, scan it and lock it away on a personal hard drive.