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While I still have to finish my HOW-TO on duplicating DVDs (hmm), this product struck my attention: Fast DVD Copy
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Defragmentation on HFS+ volumes should not be necessary at all, or worthwhile, in most cases because the system seems to do a very good job of avoiding/countering fragmentation.
It is risky to defragment anyway: What if there’s a power glitch? What if the system crashes? What if the defragmenting tool has a bug? What if you inadvertently reboot? In some cases, you could make the situation worse by defragmenting
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O’Reilly’s part two gives interesting information on what Junk Mail Filter is, and isn’t. A good read for anyone using Mail.app
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Simon Thornton presents an interesting idea on his weblog (“a mutual misunderstanding”): connect a DV input device to your Mac and make iChat believe it’s a firewire cam ..
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If you’re experiencing problems after upgrading to Airport 3.4, typically loss of signal strength and disconnection, you’ll find instructions on how to downgrade at,
http://homepage.mac.com/fishsun/articles/uninstall_airport34.htm -
Well, believe it or not, Intego publishes a press release announcing the launch of a Mac OS X Trojan Horse and my copy of VirusBarrier pops up with this alert.
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I discovered quite by accident this morning that horizontal scrolling is built in Mac OS X (as long as you own a mouse with a scroll wheel).
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Google’s new free e-mail service, GMail, doesn’t support Safari (yet). You get 1Gb free storage with Google’s search engine (Don’t sort, search).
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Can’t stop laughing..
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Apple has reorganised their developer’s documentation and technotes into a new ADC Reference Library.
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Photo and Album Printing have been activated in iPhoto for (most) European users
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Mac OS 10.0 turns 3 today. It was launched on March, 24 2001, remember ? Seems ages ago.
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March is back with its birthdays and memories.
We organised Emma’s first birthday party on Wednesday, after having spent the previous evening blowing up helium balloons and decorating – and remembering what we were doing – thinking – feeling 3 years before. It’s surprising how much one can remember – especially the details. I can recall the exact positions we were occuping on the couches, what we watched on TV (Jackie Brown), at what time we went to bed – what we were reading at the time.. and the sequence of events that followed the next morning. -
You are probably all aware that your Mac runs daily, weekly and monthly maintenance scripts to check the integrity of your system and clean it up.
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The default map function of the Address Book is a cool trick, but isn’t very useful to users living out of the USA. But there’s a new plugin on the block: Mappy Address Book
A neat Address Book plugin which enables the Address Book to hook into the online Mappy services. You can map an address or route it. Works like a charm. -
Matthew Thomas posted an article on his first 48h hours enduring Mac OS X
“The quality of Apple’s human interface has declined and continues to decline. That other current platforms, both Free and non-Free, continue to be even worse does not make this situation any more satisfying.”
Matthew Thomas is a usability critic and former Mac OS 9 user. Recommended reading – BTW, I agree with most of his points. -
I got bitten by a strange bug yesterday while running Software Update on my Server: a bunch of updates where available, so I accepted to install them and went back to my desktop. After a while, I was ready to click the “restart” button when I noticed that a red exclamation mark was next to all the updates instead of the green checkmark, and a dialog box was displaying the following
“None of the checked updates could be installed. Make sure you have permission to write to /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, then try again.”