In this video I explain how to reinstall Mac OS X and get your Mac ready to sell or give away. Required: G5 or Intel Processor, 2GB RAM, Mac OS 10.4 or higher, DVD drive Recommended: Core 2 Duo 2.5Ghz or faster processor, 4GB+ RAM, DVD drive. For PC: Required: P4 2.5Ghz or faster, 2GB RAM, Windows XP SP 2 or Vista, sound card with ASIO drivers, DVD drive. Make a backup of any files that you want to keep.Erasing your Mac permanently deletes its files. If you want to restore your Mac to factory settings, such as to prepare it for a new owner, first learn what to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac. Paste, or paste and match style First click to place your insertion point, then use one of these steps to paste your copied item at that location. When you paste and match style, the pasted item matches the font, color, size, or other style of the surrounding content.
One of the few default settings that genuinely annoy me on Mac OS X is the tendency for Apple software to retain source formatting when copy and pasting. This can be particularly annoying in Keynote (since pasted formatted text is incredibly small) and in Mail.app.
There are two solutions.
Set Command-V to paste unformatted text all the time:
Simply follow this tip which sets a system-wide keyboard shortcut for Command-V to trigger the menu item “Paste and Match Formatting.”
May not work in all apps, but it should work in most. When it doesn’t, you can use the first tip.
Manual workaround each time:
Use the “Paste and Match Formatting” menu option, or the following keystroke sequence:
Paste into Spotlight search, select it, copy it (unformatted), then paste. This even works for multi-line text.
It looks like a lot of work but it is actually very, very quick for me. (I type in Dvorak, but I don’t think that makes a big difference here.)
Home > Iowa State University Digital Repository > Extension and Experiment Station > Bulletin > Vol. 28 (1934) > No. 323
Though nearly as much land in Iowa is devoted to pasture as to corn, pastures have received very little thought or attention. The reasons why pastures have been given so little consideration are: (1) the lower per acre returns from pasture than from corn, (2) the fact that pasture is more nearly a fixed element in the business, and (3) the somewhat prevalent belief that little or nothing worth the cost can be done to pastures to make them more productive. Pasture is important, however, because it supplies a type of feed which is essential for livestock, and enables the farmer to get a higher return from some rough areas than could be obtained from cultivated crops. Sometimes pasture helps to prevent erosion.
Hurd, Edgar B. and Thomas, H. L. (2017) 'The place of pasture in Iowa farming,' Bulletin: Vol. 28 : No. 323 , Article 1.
Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/bulletin/vol28/iss323/1
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