Nov 30

The best Bible Software for Macintosh in the original Languages is Accordance, it will set you back about US$200.

A cheap good version just to read, do searches in, and paste into your wordprocessing documents is Online Bible.  It’s free but to get the NIV, NASB etc it will set you back US$80 to get the CD.

Here is a good overview of verse pasting software for mac.

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Nov 27

A domain name server (DNS) is like the phone-book of the internet. Every time you enter a webpage in your browser, it looks up a DNS to find out where the website is before it goes there. Open DNS and google offer a free DNS service, but how do you know if it’s any faster that the one you have?
Your ISP will provide you with some numbers to put in your System Preferences/ Network / DNS Server. It’s probably best not to touch these, but here is how to find the best settings if you want to change them.
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Nov 11

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There are so many movies coming round in junk emails these days that you may be happy you cant’ play WMV files. But just in case you do need to actually look at one, here’s how.

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Nov 05

Christmas lights – my mac is controlling them via virtual pc with lightorama.

Check them out here

http://bit.ly/7NB2KP

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Nov 03

Webcasting is videoing a live event and streaming it on the web for others to watch. Here’s how to do a webcast from you mac. Continue reading »

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Nov 02

Image Runner on 10.6
Canon have finally released drives for Snow Leopard for their Image runner printers!!!
For some reason they are not available on the Australian Canon site, but you can download them from here. The file is called CanonPPD_v2.80.zip and it contains the drivers for all the Image Runner printers. Read on for how to install. Continue reading »

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Oct 04

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I use bluehost.com to host the macintoshhowto.com site and I run wordpress to run the site. Here’s how to set up wordpress on bluehost! Continue reading »

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Sep 30

You probably know about Apple-C ‘copy’ and Apple-V ‘paste’ – but have you ever wanted to copy two things then paste them both? (Eg a username and a password) Or what about wanting to go back to that thing you copied 5 copies ago and paste it again… Enter Jumpcut. Continue reading »

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