Another method for deleting comments is to use Find and Replace. Select Edit->Replace and do the following:-

1) Leave the Find What box empty.

2) Click the Format button, choose Style, and select the Comment Reference style. (Don’t see the Format button? Click the More button to make it visible.)

3) Leave the Replace With box empty.

4) Click the Replace All button.

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Here's the simple solution if you are on a PC and have no access to a macintosh. The solutions mentioned above aren't really complete and therefore don't work.

download GZIP from www.gzip.org
save the document (word, powerpoint etc - whatever it is) as a webpage (htm/html).
Go to the subdirectory created along with that web file and find the .pcz file
Rename it as .gz (eg. REN *.PCZ *.GZ).
copy GZIP.EXE into the same directory as the picture file.
use the command GZIP -d *.gz
in the directory and you'll find a file without a file extension.
Rename the file and give it the extension .PICT

Now you'll be able to open the picture, assuming you have quicktime installed, by simply double clicking on it.

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To an unusual and welcome degree, "Four Christmases" makes merry with an impressive range of modern American social awfulness. In its view of the discomfort that persists between parents and their grown-up children, it flirts with the misanthropy encapsulated in Philip Larkin's poem "This Be the Verse," which begins with an unprintable axiom and concludes with the advice to "get out as early as you can/and don’t have any kids yourself."

Scott attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island—including Classical High School—before graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in literature.
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Before joining The Times, Scott served as book critic for Newsday, and also as a contributor for the The New York Review of Books and Slate.
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Scott is currently working on a book of literary criticism about the 20th Century American novel.

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Some players, including Samsung, are also upping the ante by adding the ability to play streaming movies from Netflix (NFLX) and music from Pandora to their products.

Last month, they traveled to Turin, Italy, to attend the biennial Terra Madre conference with 7,000 other farmers, food producers, chefs and educators committed to promoting traditional foods, local farms and sustainable agriculture. They spent four days attending workshops and sampling traditional foods that have been pushed near extinction by the homogenization of agriculture.

After the conference, the Jacksons took another seven days to travel and dine in Italy — a country where local, fresh produce is standard fare in restaurants and home kitchens alike.
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It helped that Jenny’s parents, Maxie and Laura Earl, owned land that the Jacksons could farm — land that Jenny was born and raised on and that her father, who owns a flooring and painting business, had used to grow hay and raise horses and beef cattle as a side-hobby over the years.

But Chris and Jenny got their true hands-on initiation in sustainable agriculture in Hawaii, where, before they launched their own farm, they worked for four months on organic farms through a program called Willing Workers on Organic Farms. It was an experience that whet their appetite for farming.

While it is certainly a glorious celebration of sustainable agriculture and eating, Terra Madre also embodies many of the tensions inherent in Slow Food itself. As the looming global recession gave added punch to customary complaints of elitism, attendees alternated between promoting a progressive political agenda and gorging on fine-cured meats and pastries.

Labels: food, Other Stuff

If it’s #2, though, this stinks. Third-party iPhone development is purportedly a level playing field. If regular developers are forced to play by the rules, but Google is allowed to use private APIs just because they’re Google, the system is rigged.

Emacs Shortcuts for OS X
The shortcuts I've tested on my Mac this morning are:

Ctrl A: Beginning of line (like Home)
Ctrl B: Backward one character (like hitting the left arrow)
Ctrl D: Forward delete (like the Forward Delete button on Macs)
Ctrl E: End of line (like End)
Ctrl F: Forward one character (like hitting the right arrow)
Ctrl H: I'm not entirely sure on this one, but it looks like it just does a right-to-left delete (like the regular delete key on Macs).
Ctrl K: Kill/remove text between cursor and the end of the line.
Ctrl N: Next line (like down arrow)
Ctrl P: Previous line (like up arrow)
Ctrl U: Remove/del

In a move that could have far-reaching repurcussions for the film and TV industries, MTV and MySpace have teamed up to insert ads in pirated videos.

The two companies are working with Auditude, a start-up firm that has developed technology that can identify any video which has been uploaded to the MySpace by someone other than the copyright owner, and allow the content owner to insert ads in the video, the companies said.

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