Archive for 'Basics for Beginners'
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Clickjacking is the latest internet security exploit. It takes control of your iSight and internal microphone through a flaw in Adobe’s Flash Player. Unfortunately, Clickjacking affects both Macs and PCs. With the built-in iSight, Macs are especially at risk. While a patch to fix this is in the works, in [...]
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There’s nothing worse than an OS X application which is a cut-down version of it’s PC counterpart. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s MSN Messenger is one of those applications. Its been years now that the PC version has supported video chatting and yet still the OS X version doesn’t.
Well, for all of you [...]
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With so much information on the internet, there has to be a good way to save and archive some of it. Bookmarks are alright but you have to be online for them and what happens when the site isn’t there anymore? You can print them but have you ever tried to print [...]
Avoid Getting Burned by Apple’s Mysterious Ways: When to buy Apple products.
Comments: 0Aug 25, 2008 in Basics for Beginners
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Apple likes to surprise the public with its product announcements. This secretive behavior has spawned many a rumor site, some of which have been sued for predicting actual products. While Apple has its reasons for doing this, this usually means one thing for the consumer - buying an Apple product can be [...]
Latest Entries
- Keep your Mac safe from Clickjacking
- Using Video with MSN Messenger for OS X
- Get Around That Pesky DVD Region Code Nonsense
- How to Read E-Books in OS X. (.CHM, .PDF, .DJVU, .LIT, .PDB and .MOBI files)
- My Hard Drive Crashed. I Lost All My Data! What Do I Do?
- The Open Source World’s Answer to Photoshop - The Simplest way to Install the GIMP on OS X
- Just How Good are the Legal TV Sites Compared to BitTorrent?
- Ten Quick and Useful Terminal Tricks
- Easily Save and Archive Web Pages with Paparazzi
- Broken Mac? How to Source Apple Repair Parts
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- Basics for Beginners (15)
- Games and Entertainment (12)
- Maintenance and Repairs (13)
- Music, Photography, and Video (8)
- Work and Organization (18)
Highlights
- 8 Myths and Facts about Properly cleaning a Laptop / LCD Display
- Five Interesting Books from Beginner to Expert Teaching You The Ins and Outs of OS X
- Four Quick and Painless Techniques That Will Clean Your Messy Desktop
- Telecommuting with OS X Part IV - “Windows Only” Proprietary Applications
- What Does Resetting Your Mac’s PRAM Do?