Get in Quick – software deal
Posted 3 months ago at 2:43 pm. 0 comments
MacHeist every year or so do a collection of software as a bundle, this year it’s a beauty. Check it out at macheist.com
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A great password manager
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago at 5:15 am. 1 comment
I’ve been using 1Password for about 2 months now, and I must say, it’s great and you should get it for free while it’s still available. It’s hard to explain what a password manager does until you’ve used one – it basically remembers all your web login names on every blog and website you visit, all your credit card details if you want it to, the different names or addresses you use for different websites, and remembers them according to the site you are on. It can even remember multiple logins for the same site if you use two different login names. It’s like a very clever version of the built in keychain. Continue Reading…
How to get the Best Free OS X software
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 7:15 am. 9 comments
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…
How to run Windows on a Mac
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 12:18 am. 7 comments
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…
How to rip a DVD
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 6:44 pm. 3 comments
Mac the ripper is a little program that allows you to copy a DVD to your computer, and at the same time it removes the copy protection. (This is called ‘ripping’ a DVD) Continue Reading…
How to get your Canon LIDE 60 scanner working in Leopard
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 9:31 pm. 2 comments
It took me a while to get my canon scanner working under leopard. The trick is that there are two programs that you need to install – the scanner program and the driver. Continue Reading…
How to Import songs into itunes
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 4:58 pm. 25 comments
How to import songs into itunes is easy. You just put the CD in, select it in itunes, and click on advanced – convert selection to MP3.
Easy!
But…
the default setting on itunes is not the best setting to use when importing songs. In fact, there is a better way to import songs that uses a program called LAME. This article describes how to import songs into itunes using the better quality of the LAME encoder.
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How to add items to your menubar
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 1:48 am. 0 comments
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/