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Mac OS X Disk Maintenance
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Continue reading →: Mac OS X Disk MaintenanceWith Windows I know all the maintenance things. I use O&O Defrag for making disks faster, Chkdsk for fixing errors, with the Mac, it is a different world. http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html#Anchor-57343 has a good list of things to be done. # Repair permission is something you can do with /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and…
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Mac Printing to Canon i9900
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Continue reading →: Mac Printing to Canon i9900Now that I’ve been hacking away at the Mac, its time to print. Printing is actually pretty easy. There is a built in driver for the HP 4250n that I use, but for the Canon, you get deep into color management and so forth. I can’t seem to get my…
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P26U Small Camera Plate
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Continue reading →: P26U Small Camera PlateIf you have a fancy tripod, you need a special dove-tail plate that works with Arca-Swiss type quick release clamps (Arca, Boga, Kirk, Markins and Wimberly). They are expensive at $45 but perfect for video cameras that go on fancy ballheads like the markins q10 on my tripod. See the…
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HD Camcorder Recommendation for June
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Continue reading →: HD Camcorder Recommendation for JuneHere’s the camcorder I’d recommend if you buy one right now. You need that you can get from “B&H PhotoVideo”:http://bhphotovideo.com: # Canon HV20 camcorder# B+W 010 MRC 43mm UV filter# Sony HD Tape Powered by ScribeFire.
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Mac UnRaxX for RAR files
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Continue reading →: Mac UnRaxX for RAR filesI normally use 7Zip on the PC to unpack strange formats like RAR. For the Mac, the freeware product is called “UnRarX”:http://unrarx.clom Powered by ScribeFire.
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Mac Dashboard Widgets
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Continue reading →: Mac Dashboard WidgetsThe Mac has this alternative interface called the Dashboard which have a collection of small applications called widgets. It ships with things like clocks and calendars, but “Apple”:http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard has a whole bunch more including: Sudoku Fun Widget that lets you play this addicting game Hangman. the famous game “Canto Pod”:http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/cantopod.htm…
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Mac Utilities
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Continue reading →: Mac UtilitiesI just love BeyondCompare for file copying and updating on my PCs, so “Match”:http://www.bytewash.com/Bytewash/Match.html seems like equivalent on the Mac Powered by ScribeFire.
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Mac Video
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Continue reading →: Mac VideoOK, I normally use DVDDecryptor, SmartRipper or AutoGK for the PC to backup up DVDs, for the Mac, it looks like “MacTheRipper”:http://mactheripper.org is the most popular at least according to the most popular list at “MacUpdate”:http://www.macupdate.com/popular.php Another very popular one is “HandBrake”:http://handbrake.m0k.org which seems to be more like AutoGK in…
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Mac Audio programs
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Continue reading →: Mac Audio programsOK, I just love MP3DirectCut for edtiing MP3s, MP3Tag for editing tags and filenames, ffdshow for codecs galore and DMC for conversions, LAME for MP3 encoding and ExactAudioCopy for CD copying but what are the Mac equivalents. Well, “Pure-mac.com”:http://pure-mac.com/audio.html has a good list and their “MP3”:http://pure-mac.com/mp3.html. I also checked out…
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Mac Antivirus
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Continue reading →: Mac AntivirusBesides Norton and Mcafee which both offer pay anti-virus, “ClamXav”:http://www.pure-mac.com/virus.html is freeware. It by the way claims that there are no viruses that target OS X which is amazing if true. Powered by ScribeFire.
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