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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1766354" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Join me at 7:00 P.M. tonight (Midnight GMT) for the weekly <a href="https://youtu.be/odZ9oR6EaB8" target="_blank">Mac-Forums video chat</a>. In addition to the usual forum roundup I'll include some tips for the Calendar and Preview apps and an IOS tip for identifying apps that may not longer be updated.</p><p></p><p><strong>Show Notes</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong>If you are scanning things with your Mac and find that the file sizes are rather large this can usually be corrected somewhat. One good way is to adjust the scanner settings in software. You can also try the following in Preview (free in the Applications folder on your Mac);</p><p>1. Open the file you want to shrink in Preview and save it as a PDF if it isn't one already.</p><p>2. Chose File>Export</p><p>3. Change the Quartz Filter setting from "None" to "Reduce File Size" and save the file.</p><p></p><p>I used a 269K .jpg and it initially became a 273k pdf. Applying the Reduce File Size filter dropped the finished file size to 29k.I suspect that the degree of size savings depends upon how many graphics there are in the original file. </p><p></p><p>The other formats available are graphics formats. Changing the file size involves adjusting either the number of pixels per inch or compression quality. <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/images-graphic-design-and-digital-photography/342302-scanning-documents-image-capture.html#post1766342" target="_blank">See this thread</a>.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts on choosing the right charging adapter for your Apple gizmos. See <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202105" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.wired.com/2013/12/charging-devices-faq/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p></p><p>When you are trying to import events/calendars into the Mac Calendar program the dialog can make it appear that single events are being imported rather than an entire calendar. This is not entirely accurate. If the ics file you import is a calendar then all of the events in the calendar are imported. </p><p></p><p>If you want to merge multiple calendars into a single calendar right click the first calendar to be merged and selected the calendar it will be merged into. The calendar you will be merging into must already exist so create it first if necessary. <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/262874/merging-two-calendars-in-macos-sierra" target="_blank">See here</a>.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.iphonelife.com/content/how-to-see-which-your-apps-will-no-longer-have-updates-available-iphone?&utm_source=tip_newsletter&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Identifying IOS software which may no longer have updates available</a>.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.iphonelife.com/content/9-great-free-apps-free-movies-and-tv-shows-apple-tv" target="_blank">10 Apple TV apps for watching free movies and TV online - legally</a>. Even if you don't have an Apple TV some of these apps have iPad /iPhone versions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1766354, member: 131855"] Join me at 7:00 P.M. tonight (Midnight GMT) for the weekly [URL="https://youtu.be/odZ9oR6EaB8"]Mac-Forums video chat[/URL]. In addition to the usual forum roundup I'll include some tips for the Calendar and Preview apps and an IOS tip for identifying apps that may not longer be updated. [B]Show Notes [/B]If you are scanning things with your Mac and find that the file sizes are rather large this can usually be corrected somewhat. One good way is to adjust the scanner settings in software. You can also try the following in Preview (free in the Applications folder on your Mac); 1. Open the file you want to shrink in Preview and save it as a PDF if it isn't one already. 2. Chose File>Export 3. Change the Quartz Filter setting from "None" to "Reduce File Size" and save the file. I used a 269K .jpg and it initially became a 273k pdf. Applying the Reduce File Size filter dropped the finished file size to 29k.I suspect that the degree of size savings depends upon how many graphics there are in the original file. The other formats available are graphics formats. Changing the file size involves adjusting either the number of pixels per inch or compression quality. [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/images-graphic-design-and-digital-photography/342302-scanning-documents-image-capture.html#post1766342"]See this thread[/URL]. Thoughts on choosing the right charging adapter for your Apple gizmos. See [URL="https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202105"]here[/URL] and [URL="https://www.wired.com/2013/12/charging-devices-faq/"]here[/URL]. When you are trying to import events/calendars into the Mac Calendar program the dialog can make it appear that single events are being imported rather than an entire calendar. This is not entirely accurate. If the ics file you import is a calendar then all of the events in the calendar are imported. If you want to merge multiple calendars into a single calendar right click the first calendar to be merged and selected the calendar it will be merged into. The calendar you will be merging into must already exist so create it first if necessary. [URL="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/262874/merging-two-calendars-in-macos-sierra"]See here[/URL]. [URL="https://www.iphonelife.com/content/how-to-see-which-your-apps-will-no-longer-have-updates-available-iphone?&utm_source=tip_newsletter&utm_medium=email"]Identifying IOS software which may no longer have updates available[/URL]. [URL="https://www.iphonelife.com/content/9-great-free-apps-free-movies-and-tv-shows-apple-tv"]10 Apple TV apps for watching free movies and TV online - legally[/URL]. Even if you don't have an Apple TV some of these apps have iPad /iPhone versions. [/QUOTE]
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