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Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your Mac and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 not only ...

In most cases, you’ll want to choose Queue and launch Adobe Media Encoder (AME), whether it’s to give you more oversight of the encoding process or to keep the encode from interrupting your editing ...

You might get a Microsoft Word 2007 email attachment from friends, co-workers or others - especially someone from another country - that can't be read. The text file may contain unusual strings of ...

I tried editing PDF files from a magazine I am subscribed to on my Mac in Preview and on my iPad in the Files app by deleting pages that I was not interested in. I would expect the file size to get ...