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[21 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
BootCamp Brings Windows 7 Support

Windows 7 the new operating system by Microsoft is considered a huge success, which is used to cover the mistakes of Vista. Vista users are rushing to upgrade their systems in order to get free from all the troubles and headaches.

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[18 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
How To Extend Multitouch Gestures To Other Applications

I can’t imagine using any computer without having multitouch gestures, which is one of the many reasons I am in love with my MacBook Pro.
Have you ever thought of how amazing it would be, if you can use these gestures with any application you want? Well, you can with the help of this guide and ofcourse “MultiClutch”.

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[13 Jan 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
How to Fix a Locked iTunes Library File

After a hard day at work, just about to listen to your music iTunes surprises you with an error “The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file”. What are you going to do in this case? With four simple steps, you can get back to your music.

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[7 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
The Mac Sale 2 Offers 10 Apps for 49.99$

The Mac Sale announces the availability of their latest Mac software bundle, which contains the following great apps. Mac Sale 2 offers almost $500.00 worth of quality software for just $49.99, The Mac Sale provides incredible value to the Mac OS X users. The sale includes Crossover Games to run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC. Another useful utility is Mac Journal, Macjournal used to blog on Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, MobileMe, or many more.
The following apps are included in the 2nd Mac Sale:

Crossover …

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[11 Aug 2009 | One Comment | ]
How to Encrypt Chat and Data in iChat

iChat is a bundled instant messaging software application for Mac OS X Leopard. iChat supports audio, video and screen-sharing capabilities as well as text messaging. If you are so concerned about your conversation and you need to make it secure, MobileMe can solve your problem by encrypting your session and data you share with your buddy. In short by securing your iChat, all text, audio, video, or data transferred in the chat is encrypted. To use this safeguard, you and your chat buddy must both have MobileMe …

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[23 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Apple Seeded Mac OS X 10.5.8 Build 9L16 to Developers

Another Beta testing days starts for Leopard. Restless folks of OS X developement team released first beta test release of Mac OS X 10.5.8 build 9L16 to developers. In the first build Apple asks developers to focus on key areas including AirPort, ColorSync, AppKit, AddressBook, Safari and USB. Seed Notes of build 9L16 (published by WorldofApple) reveals a quick known issue dozens of area to improve and a comprehensive list of  fixed issue. For details take a look at the seed notes given below.
Known Issues :
For some Mac Pros (early 2009) …

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[27 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
How to Play AVI,FLV, MKV, GVI with QuickTime in Mac OS X

In Mac OS X if you want to burn an AVI movie to DVD with a separate subtitle file (like .srt) then you need to properly encode the movie and then mux the subtitles over it. It takes a long time you can save yourself a lot of time by installing the excellent Perian QuickTime plug-in. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. If you open a .avi (or .mkv for that matter) in QuickTime, Quick Look, or any other …

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[22 May 2009 | 30 Comments | ]
How to Hack the User Password in Mac OS X Without an OS X CD.

Earlier we published How to Change or Reset user’s password in Mac OS X and How to Reset the Administrator Account Password in Mac OS X. But these method needs to you logged in to OS X or you must have a OS X Installation disc. But what to do if you don’t have an OS X CD or don’t evem know the Admin password. Here we have two simple tricks based on the loop holes of Mac OS X to hack your Mac user account by changing it’s password …

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[22 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
How to Change or Reset user’s password in Mac OS X.

Earlier we published how to Reset the Administrator Account Password in Mac OS X. But if you know your Admin password and you need to change or reset the user level password in Mac OS X follow the simple steps given below. More generally we can say that If the original administrator password is known, that administrator account may be used to reset the passwords of other administrator accounts using the steps described below. These steps are for Mac OS X 10.3.X, 10.4.X, 10.5.X. You might need to do this, …

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[22 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
How to Reset the Administrator Account Password in Mac OS X.

If you have only one administrator account on the computer and you needs to reset your Administrator password in Mac OS X follow the steps given below. You might need to do this, for example, when someone has lost or forgotten his or her account password. Original administrator account stands for the one that was created immediately after installing Mac OS X in setup your Mac options. For resetting Admin password you need Mac OS X Install disc ( Not the recovery Disc ). Remember the Install disc should be …