two new fun things i found on my mac

1. i can take pretty notes using preview

freeze drying cycle ... eff yeah!

i forgot to print out notes for a class today so i had to look at them on my computer. but that quickly became annoying because i couldn't take notes on the graphs. well....it turns out you can draw in lines/arrows and put in text on preview. how cool and fancy do my notes look???

2. i can have the computer read things for me

so sometimes there are interesting-looking posts on my reader but then i give up half way reading it because its just too long. yeah, i'm lazy. well i found oout i can just have the computer read it for me. at first i was right-clicking and having it play in my itunes. but there's a simpler way i discovered after googling-- 

• under system preferences to go speech.

•  select "speak selected text when the key is pressed" and then change the keys to something you'd use. i did ctrl+command+s. and i enjoy alex's voice. (esp when he reads stuff from betches)

• then just highlight the text you want read, and then hit ctrl+command+s! and your  computer reads it for you. woo.