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Mac users, here’s how to increase/decrease tempo of an audio file with GarageBand.

1. Open Spotlight. Type “GarageBand”. Select on “GarageBand” application. Start it.
2. Create a new project in GarageBand (File -> New)
3. Drag and drop your audio file (MP3, M4A etc) in GarageBand.
4. Press Alt+Ctrl+G
5. Highlight the audio track. (Track’s color changes to purple)
6. Click on Track Editor (Scissors symbol at the bottom of GarageBand)
7. Check “Follow Tempo & Pitch” in Track Editor.
8. GarageBand displays Tempo next to the PlayHead display. Click on Tempo, and adjust it to your liking.

Enjoy!

MessageSave by TechHit
Exporting Outlook data from Windows to Mac (Apple Mail, Entourage) is quite a cumbersome task.
If you aren’t planning on using any additional software, you’ll have to go through Outlook express or Thunderbird. The steps are far from being easy, yet the results are quite error prone.

There are some shareware products available out there. I’ve taken them for a spin, and the best & easiest one seems to be MessageSave. It’s yet another highly useful product from the Productivity tools company – TechHit (the makers of Simplyfile).

The tool is quite intuitive. And it literally took me a couple of mouse clicks to
export my Messages, Contacts, Calanders.
(Open Outlook, goto Tools->MessageSave->Apple Mac Export ->Export Messages/Calendars/Contacts)

Then I transferred those exported files to my Mac, and imported them to AppleMail, Addressbook, Calander, Entourage etc.

That’s it…! Cowabunga!

Here’s more info on exporting messages, contacts, calendars.

Turn on your speakers, launch Terminal and type:

say hello world


Yes, your Mac speaks. If you’ve got a text file you want your Mac to read to you, try:

say -f mytextfile.txt

Much more here Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do

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