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Watch Windows Media (WMV) Stream on Mac
Instead of installing Flip4Mac you can use VLC to watch streaming videos, particularly Windows Media (wmv) streams on Mac. Here’s how: Download VLC for Mac OS X here. Install and Launch VLC Player. A Windows Media stream that cannot be played in Firefox will only show a lego brick and a blank area. To find…
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VisualHub
Downloading and installing VisualHub is officially a web scavenger hunt now that it’s “abandonware” – “computer software that is no longer sold or supported, or whose copyright ownership may be unclear for various reasons” – Wikipedia Many are claiming that VisualHub is now open source, (freely downloadable programming code hosted at SourceForge.net that can be…
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VisualHub Alternative – iSquint
With VisualHub video converter gone, iSquint is an alternative for iPod video converting on Mac OS X. Overview Step 1: Install Conversion Software (VisualHub, iSquint, etc.) Step 2: Resize & Convert video Step 3: Sync iPod to iTunes VisualHub & iSquint (Conversion Software) VisualHub is the best & easiest program to convert videos and movies…
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Macbook Pro 9600M GT Gaming Performance Benchmarks
There is some serious debate as to the speed boost in gaming performance of the new aluminum bodied Macbook Pro’s (dual graphics 9600M GT) versus the current “Penryn” or 8600M GT equipped MB Pro’s. If you visit the Apple page regarding graphics performance you can find several graphs touting the noticeable boost in performance of…
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Macbook Sleep LED – Apple Bling
Check out this quote: “close the display and your MacBook Pro goes to sleep. Then an LED glow appears from inside the enclosure. How? During the CNC process, a machine first thins out the aluminum. Then a laser drill creates small perforations for the LED light to shine through. These holes are so tiny that…
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Download Old Versions of Firefox
To download old or previous versions of Firefox, such as 3.0.2 or earlier, try this (official Mozilla) address: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ This site makes available for download Firefox 2(.0.0.6) up to the latest official release (3.0.3 as of Oct 2008) and nightly builds which contain fixes to bugs up until the previous night. I’m currently having a…
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Steve Jobs’ (Untrue) Heart Attack – iReport.com Dead
UPDATE 2: as of 3pm EST the SEC is now investing the iReport.com article authored by “johntw”.ย Have fun sweating bullets johntw!ย I hear Mexico is a wonderful place to escape to this time of year… UPDATE: as of 11am EST the story on iReport.com has been removed. Instead of offering a retraction of the…
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Remove Backed Up Items from Time Machine
To get back disk space on your Time Machine Backup drive you can delete or remove backed up items from Time Machine permanently. First, go into Time Machine by clicking on the clock arrow icon in the Dock (top right hand corner beside your clock). Then in Finder (with all the files and folders listed),…
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Cuil Search Engine: A Long Way to go
Cuil.com, a Google search competitor, launched today, July 28, 2008 and I’m happy for it.ย But, they’ve got a long way to go to unseat Google as the search king. They claim to rank content rather than popularity (number of incoming links to a web site). Unfortunately, that type of understanding programmed into software is…
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Firefox 3 Question Mark Diamond
On web pages with accented characters, such as on French language websites, Firefox 3 may show a diamond question mark symbol instead of the accented character. To fix this character set display problem in Firefox 3, change the Character Encoding under the Menu -> View -> Character Encoding from Unicode to Western ISO-8859-1 if you’re…
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