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New Features In Snow Leopard

On August 28th, Apple released the long-awaited upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 — Snow Leopard. Honestly, I was expecting to notice major visual changes, but I was still glad with the subtle changes that Apple added. The first change I noticed beside a different desktop background was the free ...

Make Photo Slideshows In iDVD

One of the greatest things about iLife is the simplicity of the applications included within it. Whether it be iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, GarageBand, or iDVD, each application has a very intuitive user interface that makes it easy to use. However, there are times when it can be a little bit ...

Backing Up Your Mac With Carbon Copy Cloner

For many computer users, backing up your information should not be something to forget. It's actually something many people are fairly lazy about or they just don't think that they will lose their data. Thankfully, when Apple released Mac OS X Leopard, they included Time Machine, which backs up your ...

Order Prints From Your Lightroom Library With iPhoto

One of my biggest concerns when I first got Lightroom was how I was going to order prints online as I was able to do with iPhoto. Surprisingly, this task can be done fairly easy thanks to Lightroom's exporting features. Here's how: Open up iPhoto and to Preferences > Advanced. Make sure ...

Converting DVD’s For Your iPod

One of the reasons why I purchased an iPod touch was for the ability to watch movies. The screen was much bigger on the iPod touch making it a lot easier to view a full-length movie. I have many movies on my computer as well as a large DVD collection, ...

Finding The Best Deals On Amazon

This past year, I've been doing lots of reading mostly from two of my favorite authors: Daniel Silva and David Baldacci. Due to how books are printed nowadays, I find it much easier read a hardcover book than a paperback. The font size and line spacing is much larger ...

Tips For Speeding Up Torrents

Torrenting is a very controversial topic nowadays, especially with music piracy. For some people, like myself, I strongly believe torrenting should be allowed. One example where torrenting is helpful is for students. There are times when a student does not want to put out several thousand dollars for a program ...

Helpful Resources For Beginner Photographers

A little over two years ago, I bought my first digital SLR camera. When I first started taking pictures with it, I kept the settings in automatic mode. I had the feeling that if it was on automatic, then it would handle just about any situation on its own without ...

Make Browsing The Web Much Easier With AutoPager

A couple months ago, I switched over to Firefox completely after using Safari as my main browser. Now that I have found the right plugins and tweaked the settings, using Firefox has helped me browse the web smarter. Being a web developer, I'm constantly looking for lots of information on ...

How To Repartition Physical Disk Space In VMware Fusion

Ever since I have been using VMware Fusion, I never really thought about managing the disk space. Primarily because most of my documents and applications were stored on my Mac and not in the virtual machine partition. Therefore, when it did come time for installing applications in VMware, there were ...