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  • Movies Online – Find, Browse, Discuss, Review – Z Movie Club

    Z Movie Club, the sister site to Z Book Club (the online book club site) has been launched. Z Movie Club is an online movies club site where you can browse, find and discuss movies online with other movie fans. Z Movie Club is not a site where you can download films directly, but rather,…

  • Play HD mkv Movies on Quicktime in Mac OS X Leopard

    Have an .mkv movie file? Wondering what the heck it is and how to play it? High Definition movies in 720 or 1080 pixel width format are often encoded and packaged as a Matroska format video with a .mkv file extension. Apple QuickTime doesn’t handle this format natively so you have to add a package…

  • Textmate not recognizing html.erb in Rails HTML Bundle

    With Ruby on Rails 2.0.2 fresh out of the gates and hordes of (us) DHH fanboys coding away in Textmate on their Macs will soon realize that the new .rhtml template is now .html.erb. This file extension isn’t recognized as Rails (HTML) by default in Textmate 1.5.7. All you need to do is edit the…

  • Import Google Bookmarks into Camino Browser

    If Camino 1.x isn’t importing your Google Bookmarks (http://www.google.com/bookmarks) properly (it can hang during the import process) an easy fix or solution is to import your Google bookmarks into Safari first (File menu > Import Bookmarks). Then from Safari, export the bookmarks to an HTML file. Then return to Camino and import the bookmarks from…

  • MySQL ruby gem install problem on Mac OS X Leopard

    For those of you using MySQL database server on Mac OS X Leopard while developing for Ruby or Ruby on Rails, you might have run into an issue with the mysql rubygem installing OK, but not actually loading properly in irb, nor completing unit tests successfully. If you’ve seen errors such as: $ irb >>…

  • mod_deflate gzip compression http/1.1 vs. 1.0

    If that title makes no sense to you, well… that’s good, cause you probably didn’t spend the last three hours trying to figure out why gzip compression is not working on Javascript files being served from your Apache 2.x web server. For those of you unlucky enough to understand what I’m talking about (and thus…

  • Pimp my Mac – Laser Etching Personalization

    As if you’re brushed aluminum case of your G5 or MacBook Pro didn’t stand out enough already, you can get custom laser etching of designs and pictures on your case now. Check out some of these MacBook Pro laser etched case designs. Share this:       

  • How to play / watch .iso dvd movie files in Mac OS X Leopard

    To play a movie that is saved in ISO file format on Mac OS X, start the built-in DVD Player (find it in the Applications Folder, it won’t be on the Dock at the bottom of your screen by default). Then in Finder (or on your Desktop) double click the ISO file to “mount” the…

  • SuperDuper backup not bootable in Mac OS X Leopard

    If you’re having troubles booting off of a backup of your Leopard OS X install made by SuperDuper!, you’re not alone.ย  SuperDuper! full system backups are not bootable under Leopard. If you try to boot off a SuperDuper! created backup on an external USB disk or external firewire disk, the Mac OS X boot screen…

  • No Sound in QuickTime with DivX Movie Files

    Have no sound when using QuickTime to play .avi or other movie films encoded with DivX? This is due to a missing audio codec for DivX encoded video files. Here’s a possible solution or fix to the problem of no sound in QuickTime DivX Movies.

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