We originally wrote about Macintosh memory and how it impacted the performance of the Macbook, but we recently came across another memory issue on our Macbook Pro that reminded us of the way that memory impacts the speed and performance of your computer. If you’re looking for Cheap Mac Memory, be sure to check the information at the bottom of this article.

If you’re looking for quick performance increase, increase the memory in your Macintosh.

It all started when we turned on our Macbook Pro and instead of seeing the Apple logo and the desktop we were greeted with a series of three loud beeps over and over again. If you’re not familiar with the way that Apple Computers let you know there is a problem with your memory, they do it with three loud beeps….

After trying all the quick ways to repair the Macbook Pro with no success we were forced to open up the computer and remove some of the RAM memory. After removing one of the Macintosh Memory chips we restarted the computer, the beeps went away and the computer booted normally. One of our RAM chips had gone bad.

After we put in an order for additional Macintosh Memory, we noticed that the performance of the computer was slow. It even appeared as if the internet connection slowed down as Safari struggled to process new pages. The system was often almost unusable. Thankfully it was only a few days before out new Mac RAM arrived. After installing the memory everything functioned as normal.

Buying Cheap Mac Memory

People often feel that they need to purchase Macintosh Memory from Apple but this is not the case. Apple charges more than probably any other store for memory for their computers. Its often one of the most market up parts of your computer. If you are in need of new or additional RAM, be sure to shop around to find the cheapest Macintosh Memory available.

Check out how the Cheap Macintosh Memory on this site. Its a great place to find Macintosh memory upgrade options at a decent price.

Installing Macintosh Memory

Installing memory into your Apple Computer is often an easy process. It is thoroughly described in the user manual that comes with each Mac, and instructions can be found at Apple’s website. It often requires removing one or two pieces of the outer shell of the computer and then the memory can easily be added or removed.

If you’re not comfortable installing or removing memory from your Mac, you can often take your purchased RAM to an Apple store or other service provider to assist you in the process.

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The main business model behind including songs at the top of search results is to provide another way for individuals to be able to quickly purchase the music. However, Google’s Music Search also provides a great way to allow for quick and easy access to free MP3s.

It is clear that Google and the RIAA didn’t intend to have the music they are providing to users through search results be the easiest way for people to get the latest copies of the songs they love but in reality, the new functionality provided just that. With the modern computer and software easily available on the Mac, recording the streaming music is just a few clicks away.

Google Music Search Cookies

Google clearly is doing their best (or taking the easy approach to reduce the likelihood of this occurring) to limit the copying of the music provided through iLike, Lala, MySpace, and others by dropping a “Cookie” to your computer every time you play a song through their services. These cookies are designed to keep you from playing complete songs over and over again. After playing once, most music will only be available for 30 second clips, but include a number of options to allow individuals to purchase the music.

This can easily be by-passed by removing the cookies from your browser and clearing your cache. This will allow you to play the music over and over again, you’ll just have to remove the cookie every time the song length is limited.

Create Free MP3s With Google Music Search

Now that you know how to get to the songs available via Google Search as many times as you need, its time to create copies of the music you love most.

For Mac users, recording audio from applications is quick and easy. Audio Hijack Pro, an application that is free to record 10 minute audio tracks, allows users to set recordings from microphones, speakers, or directly from audio produced by an application. By combining Audio Hijack Pro, Safari, and Google Music Search you can create Free MP3s in the time it takes to play the song you’re looking for.

To Create Free MP3s:

1. Install and Open Audio Hijack Pro
2. In the Input Field, select Application and then select Safari as the Application.

3. Select where you’d like to save audio recordings and how you’d like the file to be named
4. Next Select Hijack and then Record. The recording won’t start until the application starts processing audio files.

5. Open Safari and navigate to Google. Search for the name of a band you like or a particular song you’d like to record
6. Once the search results appear, select the play button next to the song you’d like to record. As the music starts to play you’ll notice that Audio Hijack Pro is recording the audio.
7. Wait for the song to finish and then stop the recording on Audio Hijack Pro. The application isn’t smart enough to know to stop recording automatically once audio stops playing
8. To confirm that the song recorded accurately, navigate to where you saved the recording and play it. The file will sound as good as the streaming audio presented to you by Google

Feel free to rename the files to the structure you like, and download album art after you include the song into your iTunes collection.

Is This Legal?

While I’m not a lawyer, I believe that as long as the recordings you make are for personal use, you’re protected by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992. This law allows you to record digitally audio tracks as long as the recordings are for personal use only.

Additionally, Google and the RIAA are providing the streams to you through their services. You’re simply recording the audio created by an application on your computer. If you’re concerned, be sure to check with your legal council to decided if you’re in the right to make the recordings.

It appears as if the good old day of recording songs from the radio have entered the Digital Age. Thanks to our friends at Google, the RIAA, and Audio Hijack Pro.

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Be sure to check out additional information about the product and Find Out All There Is To Know About Google Wave.

That has all changed recently as a Google Wave invite managed to find its way to my inbox. As soon as I saw it I quickly signed up and started playing away with the features of Googles “game changing” product. While the product is still in its “preview” or pre-beta stage, it has a lot of potential. I was impressed with how very few page loads are required while using the software.

After I got a feel for how things work with Google Wave, I realized that these cutting edge products are only going to be as powerful as they are functional on mobile devices like the iPhone. So, as anyone playing with a new technology would do, I grabbed my iPhone to see exactly how Google Wave works on the iPhone.

Safari 4, Google Wave, and the iPhone

I was confident that Google Wave would work on the iPhone since Safari is the native browse on the phone. However, when wave.google.com first loaded in my Safari browser on the iPhone I was surprised to see the screen listed below. Google was telling me that my browser wasn’t supported… or was it?

I notice the “go ahead” link and decided to continue at my own peril. What I expected was the Google Wave interface that was developed for the computer, not for mobile devices like the iPhone, but was quickly surprised when the page finished loading. Google obviously understands the importance of mobile software as it appears their development efforts include simultaneous development of their mobile interface as their standard computer based one.

With a fully functional interface, I quickly started testing out the various aspects of the sites. Contacts worked as normal, I could quickly pull up information about individuals on my Contact list.

Starting a wave was a touch away and the notes I added on the iPhone instantly appeared in my version of Google Wave running on my iMac. You’ll notice that invitations available in the screen shot below.

Get Your Google Wave Invite

Infact, I have 14 invites to send out. With Google Wave, they’re not instant invites, but ones that they’ll send out in “waves” to allow others to quickly start communicating with their friends and family.

To help get the Maciverse community to Google Wave, I’ll be randomly selecting 14 individuals from those who subscribe by email to the site. If you’re interested in getting an invite, subscribe by email by entering your email address in the box listed at the top of the site. in 1 week from today, we’ll randomly select 14 email subscribers and include them in our Google Wave Invite list.

Wave with Maciverse

If you’re one of the lucky few that already have access to Google Wave, share your contact info in the comments so that we can quickly and easily add you to the Maciverse community Wave for continual discussions of Apple Products and functionality.

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Features of the Wireless Magic Mouse

The most significant feature of the Magic Mouse is its touch motion technology. Swiping forward and backwards helps you move from picture to picture in iPhoto, or from website to website in Safari. You can scroll left or right, up or down by just moving your fingers in the direction you’d like the scroll bar to move. But, the touch technology and buttonless interface isn’t the only aspects of the bluetooth enabled wireless Magic Mouse.

Apple’s new mouse also comes with a laser-tracking engine which makes it so the mouse can be used on almost any surface. I’ve personally been extremely disappointed in the past when I’ve gone to use a mouse and it wasn’t able to function on the surface I was working at.

With this new feature, the need for mouse pads significantly decreased. Additionally, as a bluetooth enabled mouse, you can connect to your Mac without any wires getting in the way and distracting from your work environment. In the modern home, a house free of wires is a must, and the Magic Mouse includes that capability with its Wireless capabilities.

Setting Up Your Wireless Magic Mouse

Installing you wireless magic mouse is as easy as everything else on your Mac. After you’ve purchased your Magic Mouse and have unpackaged it from the box, set it next to the rest of the computer and fire up system preferences. Make sure the mouse is synced to your Mac via bluetooth and then select “Mouse” from the system preference menu.

From the menu you can set the sensitivity of the mouse, enable and disable features, and enable two button click functionality. Additional details around swipe technology is available here.

You can see from the picture above that this is also a great location to see the battery level of your Magic Mouse. Knowing this will help you avoid those terrible times when your mouse is out of batteries, and you have no batteries left in your home.

The new Magic Mouse is a huge step up from the Mighty Mouse that had a weak functioning scroll ball and its “two button” click capabilities were lacking. Hopefully, after you get use to the lack of clicks, you’ll be flying around your Mac on the back of the Wireless Magic Mouse.

Looking for Something Different?

If you’re someone that just isn’t interested in the idea of a touch sensitive mouse, there are a number of different mice available to you to select from that work with your Mac. In fact, almost every PC enabled mouse is functional on Apple Computers.

I personal love my jet black with blue glow Death Adder Mouse. It has great form and is extremely light. It will be difficult selecting which mouse to use in the future.

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Last month, AT&T announced the A-list which allows qualifying AT&T customers the ability to assign up to 5 numbers, 10 on a family plan, to call and receive calls from those numbers without using your cell phone minutes. This feature competes with similar offers from other carriers. You need to log in to your AT&T wireless account online in order to manage your A-list. Once you have added numbers to your A-list, it will take about 24 hours or more for AT&T to approve and make them active. Once they’re active then you’re good to call away.

I also happen to have a Google Voice number, after burning through 8 or so family and work numbers, I wondered what would happen if I added my Google Voice number to the A-list.

First, the legal disclaimer from AT&T’s terms of service:

A-List is available only with Nation plans $59.99 a month or higher or AT&T FamilyTalk plans $89.99 a month or higher. Nation Plan subscribers can place calls to up to 5 wireline or wireless telephone numbers without being charged for airtime minutes. FamilyTalk subscribers can place calls to up to 10 wireline or wireless telephone numbers without being charged for airtime minutes. Only standard domestic landline or wireless numbers may be added. Directory assistance, 900 numbers, customer’s own wireless or Voice Mail access numbers, and machine to machine numbers are not eligible. Only voice calling is eligible. All qualifying lines on a FamilyTalk account share the same 10 A-List numbers. A-List number selections may only be managed online via MyWireless Account. Selected telephone numbers do not become active until 24 hours after added. AT&T reserves the right to block any A-List number and to reduce the amount of telephone numbers that can be used for A-List without notice.

I’m not sure if a Google Voice number falls within these definitions. On the other hand, my Google Voice number has served as my “landline phone number” even back when Google Voice was grandcentral.com. With a flimsy rationalization in hand, I added my Google Voice number to the list.

I was surprised to discover that my GV number was accepted and active on the A-list. I thought that perhaps AT&T had some sort of sophisticated way of filtering out unwanted numbers, then I remembered that I still can’t tether my iPhone. So with another rationalization, it was time to test things out.

Since Apple and Google are fighting over why we don’t have a native iPhone/GV app, Google has the web-app version at http://www.google.com/voice. From there you can enter a number and your Google Voice number will dial all your devices (home, office, cell, compatible VOIP client) and once you answer it will dial the other number and connect the two. So as far as AT&T knows, a number on my A-list called my phone.

The real test came the next day when I was out of the office and invited to join a conference call at the last minute. I put in the conference call number into Google Voice on Safari and in a couple of seconds the phone started ringing and I joined the conference. Now my wife has at least 60 more minutes this month to talk to people who are not on our A-list.

Bottom line, the experiment worked. For completeness, you can alter the way GV handles incoming calls by having it use your GV number as the caller ID instead of the number calling.

This way, whether you tell GV to call a number or someone calls you, it all appears as a number on your A-list to AT&T as long as you don’t mind not knowing who is calling. Keep in mind, AT&T may not react kindly to what they see as a violation of their terms of service (I’m sure they don’t care how you see it). Therefore, I can’t recommend trying any of this. But I don’t mind telling you what I found.

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The iWeb Help window will open and allow you to browse through a number of different instructions on how to get the most out of iWeb. These include creating websites, blogs, podcasts, and more.

iWeb Help guides also include instructions on how to add photos, movies, sound, and other web elements to get the most out of your iWeb experience. The help section will also give you guidance on how to utilize iWeb Templates to add the personal touch you have been looking for with each and every website you make in iWeb.

iWeb Help on Maciverse

In Addition to the help that you can access from the built in program for iWeb, you can find considerable amounts of informative iWeb help here on Maciverse.com

Feel free to browse the iWeb tag on the menu bar or search “iWeb” via the search box to find out more about utilizing iWeb. Below are a list of a few tutorials and instructions made available to individuals looking to get more out of iWeb.

Make an iWeb Blog iPhone Friendly – This tutorial provides instruction on how to take any iWeb blog and convert it to an iPhone friendly format. This is great for individuals hoping to stay on the cutting edge of iWeb features and want to allow mobile browsers quick and easy access to their content.

How To: Import your iWeb Blog to Wordpress – If you’ve done everything you can with your iWeb blog and are still looking for more features, it may be time to make the move to a fully functional blogging platform, Wordpress.

Create an Movie Section in iWeb – iMovie makes it easy to add photo libraries to your websites. Adding Movie Libraries are just as easy.

Add Google Gadgets to iWeb – Add additional functionality, games, and more through the inclusion of google gadgets on your website.

Additional tutorials and guides to offer you iWeb Help can be found throughout the site. Be sure to browse through the various iWeb articles and recommended sites here on Maciverse.com, you source for Mac Help.

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With each new version of iMovie, new features and capabilities are added to make it easier for users to create the movies the way they want them to appear. Additionally, to add a professional touch to the movies users create, Apple includes iMovie Themes in each of the versions of the software it releases.

iMovie Themes are designed to help users add professional touch and feel to a movie. Themes come with each version of iMovie and can be added to each project you create.

Adding iMovie Themes to a Project

To add a theme to your iMovie Project you’ll need to select the project from the project library and then follow the steps listed below:

1. Choose File from the menu and then select Project Properties
2. Select general to view the themes
3. Move the pointer over any theme to see a preview
4. After you’ve found the theme you’d like to add, click a theme and it will automatically add to your video project

If you don’t want automatic transitions and titles and so iMovie doesn’t replace transitions currently in your project, make sure “Automatically add transitions and titles” is not checked.

Why Add iMovie Themes

One of the major reasons to add iMovie themes is that the computer is really good at figuring out when and where to add transitions to your movie. Doing this by hand can be difficult, time consuming, and never look as polished as you’d like it to.

By using themes, you can get a quick and polished look to the video you’ve created it. You always want your video to look as polished as possible when you share it with your friends and family.

If you want to remove a theme from iMovie, reset the iMovie theme you select to the None Theme. This will remove the transitions you’ve added previously. Feel free to try out each of the transitions to see which one fits your movie project perfectly. Some of the themes are great for beach shots, or short clips but don’t fit the overall message of the project you made.

If you’re interested in finding out more ways to make professional looking movies with iMovie, be sure to check out this book that reveal all the secrets of iMovie, iMovie ‘09.

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But, if you’d like to be extremely prepared for the worse, you can also create an iPhoto Backup DVD. Creating a backup to DVD is great for times when you’d like to store your video collection in a Fire-Safe or safety deposit box. Like Mac Online Backup methods, this will allow you to keep your iPhoto library safe in times of disaster.

To create an iPhoto Backup DVD follow the steps listed below:

• Open iPhoto
• Once in iPhoto be sure to select the Events Library and not any one particular event. If you select any event, then only that event will be backed up to the DVD.

• After you’ve selected the event, click Share and then Burn from the Menu Bar
• iPhoto will ask you to insert a blank disk, and let you know that this disk is for use with iPhoto only and not with other applications or Operating Systems. This iPhoto Backup is made for use with iPhoto only.

After you insert the DVD, iPhoto will burn backup copies of your entire library. All of your digital memories can be accessed on this DVD and easily restored to iPhoto when you needed it most.

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Since iPhoto is the central location for all the digital memories and collection of photographs taken for an individual or family, it becomes incredible important that the pictures and photos in iPhoto are protected from damage to a computer or software corruption.

Essentially, everyone should make sure to implement iPhoto backup measures to keep their digital photos protected.

iPhoto Backup Measures

There are a number of different ways to make sure that iPhoto is backed up. One way to complete iPhoto Backup is to ensure that the library that stores all your photos is being saved to Time Machine, the backup software available to Mac owners. Time Machine back’s up your data to an external hard drive and can include all your files, or as few as the files you select, such as the iPhoto library.

To check to see if Time Machine is keeping your iPhoto library backed up:

• Open Time Machine
• After entering Time Machine, Navigate to Pictures on the left Finder window
• Verify that the iPhoto Library appears in the window to the right

iPhoto Backup Online

While you may feel comfortable enough with your pictures backed up on an external drive, it may be a good idea to utilize Mac online Backup options to secure your data.

Recently, a friend of mine went to restore from Time Machine a previous version of their iPhoto library after they were having trouble with their computer only to find out that the external hard drive connected to the computer had failed. At first he didn’t think he had any other iPhoto Backup options to restore from.

But Luckily he had his data backed up online and could restore their iPhoto library. If you don’t already backup your data online you should consider it so that you can keep your photos safe when your other backup methods fail.

Since iPhoto keeps a copy of all your files in one library, you essentially can keep those pictures safe by just copying the library. If you have computer problems and loose your original data, restoring an iPhoto library is as easy as downloading it from your backup method and holding down the option key when you click to open iPhoto. A window will appear and ask you which library you’d like to open, and you can select your restored library.

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