Archive for September, 2008
My Hard Drive Crashed. I Lost All My Data! What Do I Do?
Comments: 0Sep 29, 2008 in Maintenance and Repairs
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When your hard drive crashes, its pretty scary. Whether its the spinning beach ball followed by “The file could not be read or written”, the silent blue screen on startup or my favorite: the flashing folder with the question mark, its all the same cause - hard drive issues. You do have [...]
The Open Source World’s Answer to Photoshop - The Simplest way to Install the GIMP on OS X
Comments: 0Sep 25, 2008 in Music, Photography, and Video
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Doctoring, editing, and manipulating photographs and images can all be done for free without using an Adobe product. All it takes is the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) - the open source world’s answer to Photoshop. As great as GIMP is, installing it can be tricky if you’re new to the world [...]
Just How Good are the Legal TV Sites Compared to BitTorrent?
Comments: 0Sep 22, 2008 in Games and Entertainment
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Now that the fall TV season is upon us with new shows and fresh episodes, the networks are pushing their own legal alternatives to torrent sites. I’ll be honest, I tried the ABC.com viewer two years ago and it sucked. Big time. Let’s see if the networks got their act together [...]
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The Terminal is the most powerful application within OS X. It is your gateway into the “OS within the OS”, the UNIX core of OS X. Hidden tricks, hacks, workarounds and functions are loaded into the Terminal’s commands. The following list of ten useful Terminal tricks is by no means the [...]
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