Book description
Killer Tips books are written with one goal in mind: to allow the reader to work faster and smarter. In other books, you’ll often find that the most useful information is found in sidebars, tips, and notes. In a Killer Tips book, there’s nothing to weed through: it’s all sidebars, tips, and notes! Here, Scott Kelby gives you only the best tips and info on Mac OS X Leopard, covering all of the new features, including Time Machine, the revolutionary and completely unique backup system; Spaces, which allows the user to totally customize different window configurations based on their needs; Spotlight, which now allows the user to search across an entire network (not just the user’s computer); and much more. Scott Kelby’s trademark style—both direct and humorous—is easily accessible to all readers, who will appreciate all the great information here, as well as the book’s clear and focused presentation.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments Scott Kelby
- Acknowledgments Dave Gales
- Other Books By Scott Kelby
- About the Authors
- Five Things you’ll wish you had known before you Read this Book
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1. Window Wonderland: Cool Window Tips
- Set Your Own Picture as the Default Desktop
- Uncomfortable with the See-Through Menu Bar?
- Open Folders in New Windows
- Temporarily Override the Open Folders Preference
- Hide the Bars
- How to See If You Can Write to a Folder
- Go with the Flow (All the Cool People Do)
- Let It Flow, Let It Flow, Let It Flow
- Rearranging the Headers in List View
- Tell Your Icons Where to Go, Temporarily at Least
- Keep Your Out-of-Control Icons in Line
- The Double-Click Filename Fix
- See a Long Filename without Widening the Column
- Getting Rid of the Preview Column
- In Love with a View? Make It Permanent
- Thumbnail Previews for Icons
- Different Views for Different Windows
- Scroll Non-Active Windows
- Close Multiple Windows with One Click
- Minimizing Multiple Windows at Once
- Instantly Hide an Application’s Open Windows
- See Application Windows One at a Time
- Customize (and Un-Customize) the Toolbar
- Too Many Icons on the Toolbar? Shrink ‘Em
- Making Toolbar Icons Sticky
- How to Make the Sidebar Work Like the Dock
- The Sidebar’s Space-Saving Icon View
- Take a Quick Look at Any File
- Preview Multiple Items with an Instant Slide Show
- View Thumbnails of All Your Items at Once
- Use Exposé to, Well, Expose Things on Your Desktop
- See All Exposé Windows’ Titles at Once
- Use Exposé without Pressing a Button
- The Two-Button Mouse Experience
- Switching Apps within Exposé
- Exposé Keyboard Tip
- Exposé Mouse Tip
- Expand Your Desktop with Spaces
- Change the Keyboard Shortcut for Spaces
- Set Default Applications for Spaces
- See All Your Spaces at Once
- Moving Documents to a New Space is a Drag
- Trading Spaces
- Move Everything to One Space
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2. Show Me the Way: Navigating Your New World
- Creating Aliases without the Word Alias
- Instantly Find the Original for an Alias
- Use Labels to Find Files Fast
- Create Your Own Label Names
- Moving Icon Names to the Side: It’s Unnatural
- Adding Words to the End of Filenames
- How to Change a File’s Icon
- Steal a File’s Name, Then Write Right Over It
- Clone Filenames to Speed Things Up
- Outsmarting the Alphabet
- Set Up the Sidebar the Way You Want It
- Add Your Own Stuff to the Sidebar
- Use Toolbar as “Overflow Parking” for Favorite Files
- Always Take the Shortcut (Menu)
- Get a Two-Button Mouse for Cryin’ Out Loud
- Have a Trackpad? Use Your Fingers to Control-Click
- Creating Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts
- Menu Speed Tip
- Become the Ultimate Menu Master
- The Hidden “Go To Any Folder” Trick
- Look Inside Multiple Folders Automatically
- See Where a File is Stored
- Find Out Where an Application Lives with One Click
- Add a Path Button to the toolbar
- Always See a File’s Path
- Toggle Through Open Applications
- Toggle Through Open Windows
- Stop The Scrolling Blues
- Another Anti-Scroll Bar Tip
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3. For Those About to Dock!: Docking Miracles Made Easy
- Stack the Dock
- Different Ways to View Open Stacks
- Set Your Preferred View for Stacks
- Open an Item in a Stack Quickly
- Put a Pretty Face on a Stack
- Make Your Own Stacks
- Moving Items to and from Stacks
- Stack Idea: Make a Short Stack
- Move a File to Any Folder with Stacks
- Open an Item In a Stack with Another ApplicatIon
- Hide the Dock Automatically
- Instant Dock Resize
- The One-Click Trick to Moving the Dock
- For Those Who Don’t Want to Hide: Magnify
- The Cure for Big Dock Envy
- Force Quit an Application from the Dock
- Accidentally Launch a Program? Un-Launch It
- Keeping an Application in the Dock
- Keep Your Dock in Sync
- Unclutter Your Dock
- Open Documents by Dragging Them to the Dock
- Forcing a Specific Application to Open a Document
- Make Dock Icons Stop Moving
- Be Careful When Dragging Items Off the Dock
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4. Spotlight on Sam & Dave: Spotlight Search Tips
- You Can’t Use It If You Can’t Find It
- Spotlight Menu: It’s Fast, Easy, and Always There
- Open Your Top Hit Fast
- Get Smarter with Just One Click
- Daniel Webster Would Be Jealous
- Break the Top 20 Barrier
- Put Some Limits on Spotlight
- See What You Wanna See
- Change the Order of the Results
- Use Quick Look to Be Sure You Have the Right File
- Spotlight Window
- Refine Your Searches in Spotlight Window
- Add Items to the Search Criteria Pop-Up Menus
- Saving Spotlight Searches as Smart Folders
- Power Searching Is, Uhhhh, Powerful
- Sometimes Less Can Be More
- I Search, Therefore I Find
- A Little Help with More Complicated Searches
- Don’t Know the Exact Filename? No Problem
- Sometimes It’s What’s Inside that Counts
- Avoiding Junk Search Results
- Search Inside Your Photoshop Documents
- Spotlight Menu Versus Spotlight Window
- Searching the System Preferences
- Opening? Saving? Spotlight Will Help
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5. You’ve Got Mail: Tips for Using mail
- Address Book: Customize Your Contact Card Information
- Address Book: Add a Birthday Field
- Address Book: Customize the Contact Card Template
- Address Book: Making Your Own vCard
- Address Book: Hiding Your Privates
- Address Book: Share Your vCard with Friends
- Address Book: Sending Notes with Your vCard
- Address Book: Importing vCards the Easy Way
- Address Book: Send Someone’s vCard to Someone Else
- Address Book: Run a Quick Search on Your Contact
- Address Book: Get Rid of Duplicates
- Address Book: Merge Multiple Records
- Address Book: Create Smart Groups
- Address Book: Smart Group Ideas
- Address Book: See Which Groups a Contact Is In
- Address Book: Sync Your Book with MobileMe
- Address Book: Super-Sized Phone Numbers
- Address Book: Share Your Address Book with Others
- Address Book: Print a Mini-Address Book
- Address Book: Print a Contact List
- Address Book: The World’s Easiest Backup Plan
- Mail: Customize Mail’s Toolbar
- Mail: Add More Fields to the New Message Window
- Mail: Don’t Check Your Spelling Until You’re Done
- Mail: Send Fancy Emails by Using Stationery
- Mail: Uncovering the Priority Pop-Up menu
- Mail: Attach a Photo to an Email
- Mail: Resizing Photos for Emailing
- Mail: How to Lose Friends and Tick Off People
- Mail: Forward an Email as an Attachment
- Mail: Seeing Multiple Mailboxes in One Window
- Mail: Controlling Your Search Options
- Mail: Doctor! Doctor! Give Me the News!
- Mail: Find Out What Mail Is Doing Right Now
- Mail: Making an Archive of Your Mailboxes
- Mail: Creating Smart Mailboxes from Searches
- Mail: Create an Even Smarter Mailbox
- Mail: Smart Mailbox Idea #1: Archive Old Messages
- Mail: Smart Mailbox Idea #2: Save Your Life
- Mail: Smart Mailbox Idea #3: New Mail
- Mail: Make a New To Do Item in Mail
- Mail: Getting RSS Feeds in Mail
- Mail: See Your RSS Feeds in Your Inbox
- Mail: Get a Google Map of an Address in an Email
- Mail: Getting Emailed Photos into iPhoto Fast
- Mail: Add a Phone Number to Your Address Book
- Mail: Create an iCal Event from a Date in an Email
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6. Talking Heads: iChat Tips
- Let Me See What My Buddy Can Do
- Forget My Buddy—What Can I Do?
- Your Buddy Doesn’t Need a Camera to Video Chat
- Use Your Own Photo of a Buddy
- Stay Alive Even When You’ve Quit
- Sharing Your Musical Taste with Your Buddies
- Managing Lots of Buddies
- Add New Buddies to Groups
- Moving Old Buddies Around
- Saving Transcripts of Your Chats
- Special Alerts for Special Buddies
- Enjoy a Three-Way Chat
- Record Audio and Video Chats
- Avoid Unwanted Chats
- Avoid Unwanted Chats by Using Stealth Mode
- Avoiding Late-night Audio Chats
- Send a Buddy a File—Even a Gigundo One
- What Color Balloons Would You Like?
- Share Your Buddy’s Screen
- Drag Files Between Shared Screens
- It’s Like Show and Tell
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7. Surfin’ Safari: Tips for Using the Safari Web Browser
- Tabs, Baby! It’s the Only Way to Surf
- I Want to See You, But Not Right Now
- Sometimes You Feel Like a Tab—Sometimes You Don’t
- Move a Tabbed Page to Its Own Window
- Drag a Tab to Open a New Window
- Combine All Open Windows into One Tabbed Window
- Add an Open Window to a Tab Bar
- Bookmark a Set of Tabs
- Open All the Tabs in a Bookmark Folder with One Click
- How to Stop Multiple Tabs from Opening
- Jumping from Tab to Tab
- Rearrange the Order of Your Tabs
- Delete Your AutoFill Information
- Bookmark an Emailed Link without Opening It
- Drag Bookmarks and Tabs from Firefox into Safari
- Open Google Search Results in a Separate Window
- Highlight the Address Bar Fast
- Browsing in Stealth Mode
- Hiding Your Tracks
- Reopen Closed Windows
- Jump Back Fast
- Importing Bookmarks from Other Browsers
- Search Bookmarks, History, and Google Search Terms
- A Faster Bookmarks Menu
- Sharing Your Bookmarks
- Built-In Tip Finder
- Fastest Way to Email a Link to a Friend
- Using Google’s Search Term Memory
- How to Remove Sites from Your History
- Skip the Link—Send the Whole Page!
- Finding Your Digital Breadcrumbs
- Find a Word on a Webpage
- Making Online Articles Easier to Read
- Reading RSS Feeds Outside of Safari
- Capture That Webpage
- Make a WebPage Widget
- Stop and Resume a Download
- Keep Your Kids from Unsavory Sites
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8. Music & Movies: Using iTunes, DVD Player, Front Row, & More
- iTunes: Playing a Song
- iTunes: Skipping a Song
- iTunes: Grid View Is Brand New
- iTunes: Album View Is Still Around
- iTunes: Use Browsing to Create Instant Playlists
- iTunes: Make a Temporary Playlist
- iTunes: Create a Genius Playlist
- iTunes: Genius Sidebar
- iTunes: Show in Playlist
- iTunes: Get Concert Tickets
- iTunes: Set Up Your CDs to Import Automatically
- iTunes: Get CD Track Names Automatically
- iTunes: Consolidating Your Music in One Place
- iTunes: Copy Songs into Your iTunes Music Folder
- iTunes: Adding Your Own Custom Genres
- iTunes: Deleting Songs
- iTunes: Select the Columns You Want Displayed
- iTunes: Hiding and Unhiding Columns
- iTunes: Viewing More Info about Your Songs
- iTunes: Editing Your Song’s Info
- iTunes: Editing Multiple Songs at One Time
- iTunes: Finding Duplicates
- iTunes: Listening to Internet Radio Stations
- iTunes: Burning a CD of a Playlist
- iTunes: Set Parental Limits on iTunes
- iTunes: Get Freebies from the iTunes Store
- iTunes: Let’s Get Visual
- Front Row: Your One-Stop Media Place
- Front Row: Launch Front Row with One Click
- Front Row: Change the Settings for a Slide Show
- Some Not-So-Obvious Ways to Watch Movies
- QuickTime: Keep Your Resized Video Looking Crisp
- DVD Player: Controller Maximus (The Hidden Controls)
- DVD Player: Control Central
- DVD Player: Get Back to the Menu Fast
- DVD Player: Enable Parental Control
- DVD Player: Play Movie in a Floating Window
- DVD Player: Set Your Own Starting Spot
- DVD Player: Time Slider Makes Movies Go Fast
- DVD Player: Bookmarking Your Favorite Spots
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9. The Everyday Mac: Helpful Apps that make Your Life Easier
- Time Machine: No More Excuses for Not Backing Up
- Time Machine: Set Some Preferences
- Time Machine: Restoring from Your Backup
- Back to My Mac
- Fonts: Finding Where the © and ™ Symbols Live
- Fonts: Using the Special Characters Once You Find Them
- Font Panel: Seeing Your Fonts Before You Use Them
- Font Panel: Get a Lean & Mean Font Panel with One Click
- Font Book: Checking for Bad Fonts
- Font Book: Resolving Duplicate Fonts
- Font Book: Keep a Short List of Fonts
- Font Book: Creating Your Own Custom Preview Text
- Font Book: Font Field Sizing Tip
- Font Book: Comparing Fonts Side by Side
- Font Book: Find All Fonts with the Style You Need
- Font Book: Export Fonts with a File
- iCal: Customizing Your iCal Invite Message
- iCal: Break the One Line Per Event Rule in iCal
- iCal: Adding a Live Web Link to an Event
- iCal: Setting Your Alarm to Play a Song
- iCal: Keeping Related Calendars Together
- iCal: Automatically Create a Birthday Calendar
- iCal: Having a Meeting? Let iCal Do the Invites
- iCal: Have iCal Call Your Cell Phone
- Keeping Your Private Data Private
- Set a Default Printer
- Make Your Mac Monolingual
- The Burn Folder Isn’t Burning Aliases
- Burning Multiple Times to the Same Disc
- Making Your Mac Visible on a Network
- What to Share and Who to Share it With
- Temporarily Share a Folder
- Just Drop It in My Secret Drop Box
- When You Love Someone, You’ll Share Your Screen
- Preview: Customize Preview’s Toolbar
- Preview: Assigning a Color Profile
- Preview: Annotate PDFs
- Preview: Filling Out PDF Forms
- Preview: Printing Multiple Images on One Sheet
- Preview: Print Multiple Documents to One Page
- Preview: Do Simple Photo Corrections in Preview
- Preview: Seeing a Photo’s EXIF Data
- Preview: Remove a Photo’s Background
- Preview: Background Removal Hint
- Preview: See Your Document Up Close and Personal
- Preview: Sorting Image Thumbnails in Preview
- Preview: Make Vertical Selections in PDFs
- Preview: Turn Any Selection into a Graphic
- Stickies: A Cure for a Bad Memory
- Stickies: Create Them from Just About Anything
- Stickies: Arrange Your Stickies Automatically
- TextEdit: Font Control Central
- TextEdit: Adjusting the Space Between Letters
- TextEdit: Have TextEdit Do the Work When Creating Lists
- TextEdit: Pop-Up Spell Checker
- TextEdit: Saving Files as Word Documents
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10. Cool & the Gang: Way Cool Tips
- When You’re Not Quite Sure How It’s Spelled
- Left-Handers Finally Get a Break!
- Calculator’s Been Hiding Its Power
- Have a Conversion Experience with Calculator
- Take a Screen Capture of Your Screen
- Take a Screen Capture of One Window
- Create a PDF from a Screen Cap with One Click
- Create a PDF of Any Document
- Add Web Photos to Your iPhoto Library with One Click
- Use Quick Look to Preview Audio Clips
- Use an RSS Feed As Your Screen Saver
- The Coolest Screen Saver Ever
- iTunes Artwork Screen Saver
- One More Screen Saver Tip
- Phone Number Widget Trick
- Google Maps Widget Trick
- Use the Same Widget More Than Once
- Use Preview to Convert Image File Formats
- Check Your Email from Any Finder Window
- Preview Your New Emails with Quick Look
- Set Up a Guest Account for “The Others”
- Combine Separate Documents into One PDF Document
- Was It KAL-IB-RA OR KAL-EEB-BRA?
- Fine Tune Your Volume
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11. Speed Thrills: Mac OS X Speed Tips
- Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
- Looking for Help?
- Organize (or Disorganize) Your Icons Fast
- Quick Way to Add Words to Your Dictionary
- You Can Go Everywhere from Anywhere
- Drop Text on Dock Icons for Fast Action
- Load Applications Automatically When You Log In
- Open Documents When You Log In
- Save Files to the Desktop in a Flash
- Save Time When You “Save As”
- Navigate the Save As Dialog at Turbo Speed
- Use the Finder’s Path Bar to Navigate Fast
- Switch to Grid View in Quick Look
- Open Sidebar Items in Their Own Windows
- The Fastest Way to Quit Multiple Applications
- Set a New Default Application to Open a File
- Instantly Hide Every Open Window on the Desktop
- Keep a Team Address Book Current
- Send an Email to Everyone in Your Group
- Unleash Your Mac’s Power with Scripts!
- Open Commonly Used Preferences Fast!
- Moving a File Out of a Folder in List View
- Change Finder Window Views Fast
- Create a List of Favorite Special Characters
- Don’t Shut Down Your Computer
- Set the Warning Beep Volume Fast
- Tap Into the Collective Intelligence of Wikipedia
- Clean Up the Sidebar
- Select The Secondary Option in Dialogs
- A Faster Way to View the Widget Bar
- Copy & Paste a Style
- Scrub Through Video
- Open Multiple Inspectors in an Application
- Open An Application’s Preferences Fast
- Duplicate Smart Mailboxes
- Preview a Document Right in the Print Dialog
- Your Default Printer Follows You
- Faster Widget Closing
- Disable a Widget
- Open All Images in One Window in Preview
- Batch Resize in Preview
- Batch Rotate in Preview
- Create Live Internet Links from Text Automatically
- Create Simple Web Addresses in Mail
- Display More Information about Files in Icon View
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12. She Drives Me Crazy: How to Stop Annoying Things
- Hide Yourself When You’re Video Chatting
- Sleep Less—Work More
- Entering a Password to Use My Own Computer
- Disabling the Caps Lock Key
- Shut Down without the Warning
- The Silence of the Beeps
- Genie’s Cute and All, But She’s Just Gotta Go
- Stop the Bouncing, I Beg You!
- How to Stop the QuickTime Player Blues
- How to Stop Magnifying Your Dock
- Stopping the Software Auto-Updating Menace
- Yes! I’m Sure I Want to Empty the Trash
- Close the Printer Icon in the Dock after Printing
- Shut Off the Warning before Changing a File Extension
- Change the Font Mail Uses for Notes
- Rearrange System Preferences Icons
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13. Living the iLife: Tips for Using iLife Applications
- GarageBand: The 10 Most Essential Shortcuts
- GarageBand: Take Your Pick of Keyboards
- GarageBand: Super Size the Keyboard
- GarageBand: Print Your Musical Notation
- GarageBand: Creating Regions in Your Song
- GarageBand: Use Regions to Create Arrangements
- GarageBand: Demystifying the Loop Browser
- GarageBand: Change the Order of Loop Browser Buttons
- GarageBand: Using the Built-In Tuner
- GarageBand: Seeing the Rest of the Loop Browser Buttons
- GarageBand: You Won’t Believe All the Effects
- GarageBand: Add Automation to Individual Tracks
- GarageBand: Add Effects to All Tracks at Once
- GarageBand: Make Fine Adjustments with Panning Knobs
- GarageBand: Fading Out at the End of a Song
- GarageBand: Try Out a Loop before Committing to It
- GarageBand: It’s Not Just for Music
- GarageBand: Put Together Your Own Magic Band
- iMovie: It’s Not All Bad
- iMovie: Skimming Rocks
- iMovie: Playhead Information Will Drive You Crazy
- iMovie: Split Days into Separate Events Automatically
- iMovie: Just Import the Video You Need
- iMovie: Merging Events Can Be a Drag
- iMovie: Prevent Storage Space Theft
- iMovie: All Selections Can Be Created Equal
- iMovie: Some Quick Tips on Selections
- iMovie: Right Size—Wrong Place
- iPhoto: Import Photos from Your Camera
- iPhoto: Import Photos from Your Drive into iPhoto
- iPhoto: Rate Photos Fast By Batching
- iPhoto: Automatically Organize Your Photos by Event
- iPhoto: Choose a New Photo for Your Event Thumbnail
- iPhoto: Compare Photos Side By Side
- iPhoto: Rotate a Group of Photos at Once
- iPhoto: Rotating in the Opposite Direction
- iPhoto: Photographers’ Basic Black
- iPhoto: Correct the Color Balance (and Other Problems)
- iPhoto: Copy & Paste Corrections
- iPhoto: Sometimes Less Is More—So Crop Your Photo
- iPhoto: Remove Blemishes and Dust Spots
- iPhoto: Make Your Photos Pop
- iPhoto: Defeating Da Double-Click Default
- iPhoto: Edit Photos in Another Editing Application
- iPhoto: Have Fun with Special Effects
- iPhoto: Create Albums of Special Photos
- iPhoto: Publish an Album to the Web with Two Clicks
- iPhoto: Make Your Web Gallery a Community Effort
- iPhoto: Controlling Access to Your Web Gallery
- iPhoto: Add New Photos to iPhoto Automatically
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14. Gloating Isn’t a Sin: Showing Off Leopard’s Sexy Side
- Here’s to the Crazies
- Blue Screen of Death Icon
- Get a Full-Sized Graphic of Icons
- DVD Player: Putting Captions in Their Own Window
- Spotlight’s Hidden Calculator
- Dashboard Super Slo-Mo Widget Tricks
- Exposé Show Off Trick #1
- Exposé Show Off Trick #2
- Exposé—Spaces Combo Trick
- Address Book Photo Effects
- Find Stuff You Never Knew You Had
- ColorSync Show Off Trick
- Use Custom Sounds for Mail
- Reloading a Dashboard Widget Trick
- Get The Full Dashboard Weather Experience
- If I Could Turn Back Time
- iMovie Slow Motion Swap
- Photo Booth Is Hours of Fun
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15. Cheap Trick: Mac OS X Pranks
- Mess with Their iChat Alerts
- Shift-Beep. Option-Beep. Command-Beep. Beep-Beep!
- Give Their CDs and DVDs Some New “Features”
- Speak to Me, Baby
- Make Their Keyboard Bilingual
- Create a Terrifying Fake Dialog
- Create an Even More Terrifying Fake Dialog
- Hiding, Well...Everything!
- Locking Someone Out of Their Own Machine
- Uncolor Their World
- Jam Their Dock
- Unexplained Launch Mysteries
- Application Icon Madness
- Make Their Fonts All Jaggy
- Blow Up Their Cursor
- Make Them Think Their Screen Is Trashed
- Blow Out Their Screen
- Strip Down Safari Windows
Product information
- Title: Mac OS X Leopard Killer Tips
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2008
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780321572998
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