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Posted by Lab Rat
On those rare occasions when a Mac starts acting a bit uppity, most of us turn to Apple’s Disk Utility as our first attempt at setting things straight. If Disk Utility cannot repair the problem, our next step is usually a 3rd party disk repair utility such as Alsoft’s Disk […]
Posted by Dr. Macenstein
Probably not.
But faithful Macenstein reader Skeezo sent in an interesting link to forum posting over at rave.ca. It seems if one types in the word “Democracy” into Mac OS X’s built-in Dictionary widget, and then switches over to the thesaurus, you are given the following example usage of the word:
Democracy (noun)
“a […]
Posted by Helper Monkey
Running After Effects 7 (in Rosetta) on a Mac Pro with 4 GB of RAM.
Posted by Helper Monkey
VH1 is launching Jack Black’s new half-hour comedy show Acceptable.tv by making the premiere episode, entitled “Acceptable.tv Tutorial“, available for free on iTunes.
From the description:
Each week you’ll see five mini TV shows made by the Acceptable.tv team. Watch our funny shows, then vote on which shows you want to […]
Posted by Helper Monkey
NeoOffice.org has released NeoOffice 2.1, a “significantly-enhanced” version of the Mac OS X-native version of the OpenOffice.org office suite that includes Microsoft Office-compatible word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database applications.
“This release is the culmination of many thousands of volunteer hours,” said Patrick Luby, CEO and Chief Engineer of NeoOffice.org. “As […]
Posted by Lab Rat
For those of us who are drooling over the new Apple TV but have read reports that you’d be throwing away money unless you own an HDTV to hook it up to, it turns out a good percentage of regular “SQUARE” TVs will work just fine with the device. Apparently, despite […]
Posted by Dr. Macenstein
The Apple TV only began shipping a few days ago, yet already there are reports of people cracking open the cases to see what trouble they can get into. Faithful Macenstein reader rico has returned from the abyss with a pair of links detailing a couple of warranty-voiding Apple TV […]
Posted by Helper Monkey
Perhaps the greatest allure of the iTunes store (or ANY digital media store, for that matter) is the idea of instant gratification. If you want to watch a movie, you no longer have to put on your “outside pants” and actually drive to your local video store, you can park your […]
