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NetNews Wire for iPhone

by Chris Foley September 28, 2009 Digital Lifestyle

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Do you use RSS? Do you know what that is?
For those of you who do not know, Wikipedia defines RSS as a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format.
In short, there are a bazillion excellent blogs out [...]

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Snow Leopard is here

by Chris Foley September 5, 2009 Digital Lifestyle

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The wait is over, Apple’s OSX 10.6, code name: Snow Leopard has arrived and is available for your immediate install.
However, be warned, you’ll definitely want to make sure that the applications you use every day are compatible with the new OSX.
In this post, you’ll find a few of my own observations about Snow Leopard, as [...]

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10 – Second Tip: Change Your Default Web Browser

by Chris Foley July 12, 2009 10-Second Tips

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With the release of Safari 4, Apple has given us some very compelling reasons to stick with Safari as our default web browser. But perhaps you’re still running OSX 10.3 or 10.4 and can’t get the newest version of the fastest web browser. Or perhaps you simply prefer to use another browser such as [...]

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iMovie ‘09 8.0.3 Adds New Hidden Features

by Chris Foley June 6, 2009 Found Articles

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This article comes to us from TidBITS.com, which is a resource I enjoy very much.
by Jeff Carslon
Apple released iMovie ‘09 8.0.3 this week, a seemingly minor update that “addresses general compatibility issues, improved overall stability and fixes a number of other minor issues.” However, I’ve discovered that this small iteration turns out to have two [...]

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10-Second Tip: Fix your Smashed Spotlight

by Chris Foley June 6, 2009 10-Second Tips

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Is your Spotlight utility acting wacky lately?
It happens a lot, don’t feel too bad. If your Mac is in otherwise good working order, it’s likely that Spotlight’s Index file has broken. You can force Spotlight to re-index your computer’s hard drive in a few short steps.
Here’s how to fix Spotlight:
First, click on the Apple icon [...]

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Fighting Hard Drive Fragmentation

by Chris Foley April 19, 2009 Mac Maintenance

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You’ve likely never heard the term “Disk Fragmentation” before, unless of course, you’ve been using computers for so long that you can remember when they came with a 64 MB hard drive, or smaller. That was an awful long time ago and for the better part of the past decade, disk fragmentation is an issue [...]

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