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How To Back Up Your Hard Drive In Mac OS X

Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by Tammy Camp.

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Back up your files.

You’ve heard it before, several times. Now it’s time to do it.

It isn’t that hard. It’s not as simple as putting on your seat belt, but it’s close. Once you have the backup hard drive and the software, you’re all set.

DVD Audio Ripper For Mac – How To Extract DVD Audio & Convert To Audio CD or MP3

Posted on 08. May, 2009 by Tammy Camp.

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Do you have a great live concert or stand-up comedy DVD that you want to listen to in your car, but can’t because it was never released on CD?

Flock Browser – Recommended Social Media Browser for Mac

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by Tammy Camp.

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Social media integration is Flock’s unique selling point. No other browser comes close to Flock in allowing one user to log into multiple social media services simultaneously, to save the log-in information for future use, and to transfer content quickly and easily between them.

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Must Have Mac Applications: 15 Free, Useful Software Add-Ons For Daily Computing

Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by Tammy Camp.

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Apple prides itself on building computers that work perfectly the very first time you take them out of the box.

That being said, there’s also a wealth of free, useful programs available for download on the Internet.

Here’s a list of 15 apps that can make your life a whole lot easier.

(And by the way, if you just scanned the list and perceptively spotted 16 instead of 15, that’s because Perian and Flip4Mac are grouped together here as one collective tool instead of two separate ones.)

WEB BROWSING

Even if you’re completely satisfied with Apple’s stock Safari browser, you may want to consider rival Firefox along with its younger cousin, Flock.

Firefox: Mozilla’s open source project that took the world by storm in 2004, Firefox is still fast, powerful as ever, and customizable with useful add-ons.
Flock: This “social web browser,” also powered by Mozilla and championed by a rabidly growing fanbase, streamlines and connects all of your separate social media accounts, including (but not limited to) Gmail, Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and Digg.

VIDEO PLAYBACK

QuickTime Basic, which comes pre-installed on all new Macs, unfortunately can’t play most video formats besides MOV and MPEG. A tag-team of two plug-ins (Perian and Flip4Mac) fixes this problem, as does the stand-alone player VLC.

Perian: The self-proclaimed “swiss-army knife for QuickTime,” Perian supports many video formats including AVI, DivX, and XviD.
Flip4Mac: Allows WMV (Windows Media Video) files to be supported in QuickTime.
VLC media player: This open-source, stand-alone application plays all the same audio & video files supported by QuickTime (including Perian and Flip4Mac) and then some. Interface includes playlists, shuffling, and a volume control that goes up to 300%. (That’s right, Spinal Tap fans: this one goes to eleven.)