Archive for April, 2008

Photo courtesy of OS X
Moving files back and forth between a Mac and a PC is actually simple, yet can be extremely confusing. Forget burning ten DVDs or sixty CDs. Don’t spend all day transferring 40-50GB of data on a 1GB USB drive. Most important, don’t spend $50 on special software. I’m going to show [...]


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Four years ago, I bought my first iBook. Before that I was a Desktop guy. It used to be that if you wanted power - get a desktop and if you want something basic, yet portable - get a laptop. This is partially true, desktops are still more powerful yet laptops [...]


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Data lives on long after you empty your trash can. With simple recovery applications, newly deleted files may be recovered and opened. With more sophisticated programs, files you deleted years ago may be recovered and read. With all that we do on our computers now, our hard drives are full of [...]


Photo courtesy of MPlayer, VLC, and Perian.
Video online is huge and its going to only get bigger. As quality increases, so does the filesizes and bandwidth requirements. To get around these barriers, compression is necessary. Just like .mp3 for music and .zip for files, two methods of compressing video are DivX and Xvid. Let’s learn [...]








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