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Firefox 3.5 was released this week. With features such as Private Browsing, Location awareness, speed improvements and miscellaneous bug fixes, it’s well worth the free download. Now that Firefox 3.5 is out, this two part post will look at securing Firefox and maintaining your privacy on the web.

For part one, let’s look at five easy ways to secure Firefox to keep you safe on the web.
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The iPhone and iPod Touch are mini computers running a specially tweaked version of OS X. They can browse websites, compose emails and with the App Store infrastructure, they can do pretty much anything - as long as it’s approved. In addition to the great things iPhones can do, they can also have problems and go bad - just like any computer. So, what do you do when your iPhone or iPod Touch doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to?
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While AppleTV is nice, out of personal preference, I’m not a big fan of iTunes, iPhoto and other Apple media solutions. Let’s look at how you can take any old Mac and turn it into something better than the AppleTV can even think of becoming.
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Do you do the same tasks over and over again during the course of your day? Or do you have some project in OS X that you’ve been putting off because it involves doing some menial task over and over again?

After a while, repetitive tasks can get.. repetitive. Fortunately OS X includes the brilliant Automator which lets you automate pretty much any menial task you can think of. Here are ten awesome pre-written tricks you can do with Automator.
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