Quick tip of the week

Hi All,
Have you noticed that the "quick tip of the week" on the apple.com/business/videotips page are done on machines running tiger. A number of them including some of those most recently added (e.g. "When a pdf is too big", and "zip up your files") seem not to be applicable in Leopard. I find this a bit weird. Come on apple get up to speed with Leopard please.
BTW anyone know how to shrink down the size of a pdf in Leopard?
Thanks

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Thanks.

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d. I didn't know that the LabVIEW Quick Tips existed.
3. Would the Quick Tips be more helpful if each tip was integrated into a relevant help topic?
Yes
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