Posts Tagged ‘ mac ’

If you’re using Safari, there’s an easy way to download YouTube videos. Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A, which shows the Activity window. If you’re also loading other sites, you’ll see a list of them: scroll until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details about...
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Another way to solve this is to open the Virtual Machine menu, then hold down the Option key to change “Shut Down Guest” to “Power Off”. If you select “Power Off”, that’s like pulling the plug from the power of the virtual machine, and it’ll shut right off. via Just stuff really….: VMWare Fusion...
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I’m using a lot of Windows lately, via VMware Fusion … recently installing both Vista and XP. It’s for work, and it’s for certain apps that need to be tested on a PC. The most annoying thing I’ve found so far – besides the way Windows is always mothering me to death me with...
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I’m watching VP of iPhone software for Apple, Scott Forstall, in today’s Apple Event. He’s demo’ing the API and development environment, and my first thought was: this is a trojan horse for Mac OS X development. Thousands of developers are going to want to write applications for the hottest mobile device on the market...
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I tell you, I get the weirdest email sometimes … This one was in response to my Sony camcorder & Mac OS X: Not happy together? post from a year or so ago. i saw your blog about about the mac and sony cam! I am the victim of samsung not connecting with mac!...
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Count me shocked.MacSurfer, the grand-daddy and still king of Mac news sites, has unveiled a new look, now in beta.Times have changed, mullets have gone out of fashion, Michael is no longer the king of pop, and tie-dye is out … but MacSurfer, the essense of web 1.0, has stubbornly remained completely and utterly...
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Dan Knight of Low End Mac fame has a well-researched article on the abandoned Apple office suite AppleWorks, which used to be ClarisWorks.Most of it I’m taking with a bit of a grain of salt, since I know Dan is a keep-my-old-computers-til-they-rot kinda guy, but he makes a number of good points, and one...
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I want the new iMac. I want the new iPhoto. I want the new iMovie. I want the new GarageBand. I want the new Keynote. I want the new Numbers. I’m not really impressed with iWeb. Not too sure about .Mac yet. I don’t really have a need for Pages – Word is good....
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