Jun 11th, 2009
Photo courtesy of doubleTwist
With the ever increasing pile of iPods, PSPs, Blackberries, mobile phones, mp3 players and other gadgets, managing them becomes unruly. They all seem to have their own software, their own way of doing things and laugh at the thought of interoperability. OS X support? You’re lucky if the device will even work with your Mac. So, how to tame the mess of different devices? Using doubleTwist, I’ll show you how to handle multiple devices without breaking a sweat.
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Jun 8th, 2009
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Want to broadcast videos to anyone, local or distant? You can easily do this with the magic of QuickTime Broadcaster. Broadcast lectures to far away students, live video feeds of a family barbecue to relatives across the world, or use it to broadcast in-house video to local terminals. Whatever you need to broadcast, QuickTime Broadcaster makes it easy. Let me show you how to set it up.
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Jun 4th, 2009
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While Microsoft makes Office for Mac, it’s not the entire Windows Office Suite. One of the major exceptions in Office for Mac is Microsoft Visio documents. If you are transitioning to OS X in the workplace, you may run across this problem. Fortunately, there are ways to open and work on Visio documents within OS X.
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Jun 1st, 2009
Photo courtesy of Karindalziel
Every time you use the internet, you are using networking. The internet itself isn’t really a giant and mysterious cloud in the sky, you are actually talking to a computer located in a building, somewhere in the world. The best way to really picture the internet is to think of it as a phone system for computers to talk to each other. If you’ve ever wondered how it all works, I’ll explain how your Mac talks to the internet.
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