Paste text in Mac Powerpoint - from Crome - Work around

Some times it fails to paste text in Mac Powerpoint  when something is copied from Crome, or some browsers. Here is the work around:


Use Paste special. 

• Edit->Paste Special
• Its keyboard shortcut is Control-Command-v.

Installing Dokuwiki on Mac OS X (Mavericks)

For the first time I was successful in installing Dokuwiki on my mac (Its a MacBook Air running Mavericks).

I used info from a combination of these weblinks (almost in that order)
http://machiine.com/2013/how-to-install-apache-and-php-on-a-mac-with-osx-10-8-mamp-part-1/
http://machiine.com/2013/how-to-setup-mysql-on-a-mac-with-osx-10-8-mamp-part-2/
http://machiine.com/2013/how-to-setup-phpmyadmin-on-a-mac-with-osx-10-8-mamp-part-3/
and
https://www.dokuwiki.org/install:macosx
and
http://metadata.mx/personal-wiki/

Please remember you have use some common sense in implementing this. For example I didnt use MAMP or Fluid. But some info like use: http://localhost/~username/dokuwiki/doku.php to access the dokuwiki, etc. 

Shrink Preview PDF files without ruining image quality

The following instructions at the given link are pretty useful.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1168311/shrink_preview_files_without_ruining_image_quality.html

If you are not satisfied with results of the Reduce File Size filter (which we use to make PDFs small enough to send by e-mail, etc), follow these steps:

Go to the folder /System/Library/Filters, and open the XML file: Reduce File Size.qfilter

Now rename (copy) that into three files: Reduce File Size Good.qfilter, Reduce File Size Better.qfilter, and Reduce File Size Best.qfilter. Then change the parameters of each file: 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75 for Compression Quality (respectively) and 842, 1684, and 3508 for ImageSizeMax (ditto). (The first is A4-size at 72dpi, the second A4 at 144dpi, and the third A4 at 300dpi).

Finally, change the default string for the Name Key at the end of each file—which is what displays in the Export menu—to match its file name. 

You will have 3 versions of PDF quality filters, when you "export" files to PDF next time.