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Opening a Bunch of Stuff at Once on Your Mac

Posted on February 20, 2009
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Every day when I come to work, I have a bunch of applications, files and web pages I need to open in order to get started. These are almost always the same, though with a little variation (for example, sometimes if I need to do something that requires a lot of concentration I might want [...]

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