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Here’s a list of some programs that you can download for free from versiontracker.com or find via a google search to supplement the software that comes with your mac. Continue Reading…
This Logitech presenter is great. After using the ATI remote wonder for a year or so, and a Microsoft cordless mouse also, I’ve done a bit of research, and came up with these little units as the as the best in my opinion. They are $79 at Officeworks and have all the features you need…
Ever since I first used Dragon Naturally Speaking Version 4 in 2000, I have been waiting for it to be released on the Macintosh. Well it’s finally arrived, it’s called “MacSpeech Dictate”, and it’s powered by Dragon. Unfortunately there are still a few hiccups. My advice is if you have been using speech recognition already - Viavoice or Ilisten, then make the switch - it’s an improvement. But if you are not currently using speech recognition, wait a little longer. It’s not quite there yet, and the adjustment to speech recognition combined with some bugs makes for a steep learning curve. Continue Reading…
O dear, this is a tragic topic. Nevertheless, I just installed Windows XP on my Intel Macintosh and it was easy! Windows XP set me back $115, but innotek VirtualBox, the program that let me run windows, was free. It’s pretty fast - it takes about 20 seconds to start Windows (that’s faster than my OSX boots!) and about 6 seconds to turn it off. Continue Reading…
There are lots of little applications you can add to your menubar to do things such as see recent clipboard items, stop your mac going to sleep (eg for presentations) and so on.
This site has a real good list of them:
http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/
I have a lot of .mov files. Each file is about 1 hour of movie footage but compressed to only 200-300MB. When I import them into iMovie it tries to convert them to dv files. Do you know a way to burn a collection of .mov files to a dvd so that they can be read with a normal dvd player?Good question, let me explain a little bit about what you can and can’t do with CDs and DVDs.
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iTunes 7
The new iTunes looks fantastic & has some great new features.
However any quick survey of forum discussions will show you that there are some bugs that people are discovering. Continue Reading…
I just installed Front Row on my non-front-row mac and it works with my ATI Remote Wonder USB Remote Control. Very nice.
Here’s how I think I got it working, I tried a few things, this is what I think did it: Continue Reading…