Archive for 'Games and Entertainment'
Photo courtesy of OS X
If you’ve ever bought a DVD in another country or brought your laptop overseas and tried to watch a movie, you know the pain of the DVD Region Code. Sure you can change your player’s code to that country, but after five changes it becomes permanent. So, how do you get [...]
How to Read E-Books in OS X. (.CHM, .PDF, .DJVU, .LIT, .PDB and .MOBI files)
Comments: 0Oct 2, 2008 in Games and Entertainment
Photo courtesy of DaigoOliva
Imagine carrying around a gigantic library on your hard drive. In this library, no paper was wasted on the production and distribution of any books. Sound like something magical and imaginary? It’s not. It’s the future of books - the E-Book.
While reading one on a monitor can be awkward, E-Books on a [...]
Just How Good are the Legal TV Sites Compared to BitTorrent?
Comments: 0Sep 22, 2008 in Games and Entertainment
Photo courtesy of Aaron Escobar
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 [...]
Turn your Macintosh into a TiVo-Style Digital Video Recorder
Comments: 0Aug 28, 2008 in Games and Entertainment
Photo courtesy of Amazon
Fall is the time of colorful foliage, going back to school, cooler weather and best of all, the return of your favorite TV shows. Personally, I don’t like to a locked into the network’s broadcast schedule. Nor do I care for inane commercials. Sure, you could buy a DVR or TiVo.. Or [...]
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
Categories
- Basics for Beginners (15)
- Games and Entertainment (12)
- Maintenance and Repairs (13)
- Music, Photography, and Video (8)
- Work and Organization (18)