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Apple Mac App Store Launches With Software Update 10.6.6

Apple Mac App Store Launches With Software Update 10.6.6

Ed Steele January 6, 2011 Comments Off

Apple’s App Store launched today! If you haven’t done so yet go to your Apple Menu and check your Software Updates to upgrade to 10.6.6 and after reboot the App Store icon will appear

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Makayama iPod Media Studio – Convert DVD to iPod 400% Faster

Makayama iPod Media Studio – Convert DVD to iPod 400% Faster

Ed Steele June 23, 2006 1

Makayama Software has conversion software for just about every portable media device avaliable today. They’ve just released their iPod Media Studio, which can convert your DVD’s to iPod format faster than you can “DRM”

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Apple Boot Camp: Public Beta Software Enables Intel-based Macs to Run Windows XP

Apple Boot Camp: Public Beta Software Enables Intel-based Macs to Run Windows XP

Ed Steele April 5, 2006 Comments Off

This is huge – new Mac owners can now throw those copies of Virtual PC in the garbage. Apple has released “Boot Camp” which allows new Intel-based Mac owners to run Windows XP on

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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Free Download

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Free Download

Ed Steele April 4, 2006 Comments Off

We don’t normally cover software, however I thought I’d let you all know that you can download Microsoft’s Virtual Server R2 for free. If you’ve got a home network to simulate or you just

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Camino 1.0 is Out

Camino 1.0 is Out

Ed Steele February 14, 2006 Comments Off

I’m still a fairly new mac user and a very happy one if I must say so but most of the time I’ve been using Safari for browsing the web. It was teh best

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Free Ubuntu Linux CD’s….Shipped Free Too

Free Ubuntu Linux CD’s….Shipped Free Too

Ed Steele February 7, 2006 1

Recently in the Gadget Forum I posted on a link to a site shipping Ubuntu Linux CD’s to you all for free. Well after a two week waiting period I have finally received the

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Goo Goo Goo… buntu!

Goo Goo Goo… buntu!

Ed Steele January 31, 2006 Comments Off

Search engine mammoth Google has said they are working on a linux distro called internally “Goobuntu” as it is based on the Ubuntu distro (which itself is a Debian derivitive). Could this be the

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SeaMonkey 1.0 Released

SeaMonkey 1.0 Released

Ed Steele January 31, 2006 Comments Off

Those Mozilla guys are at it again. They are no longer making the Mozilla internet suite, at least not under that name. Today they launched version 1.0 of the newly renamed SeaMonkey Internet Suite.

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Reveal the real FireFox!

Reveal the real FireFox!

Ed Steele January 27, 2006 Comments Off

Recently there have been a few extensions for FireFox that try to help organize or give you an overview of your tabbed pages. This one is set to put all the others to shame.

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Make your first page with First Page!

Make your first page with First Page!

Ed Steele January 21, 2006 Comments Off

Gramps: I’ve been around the net a long time. I remember when way back in 1995 I would code HTML in notepad on Windows 95 while walking through a snowstorm uphill both ways. Now,

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Let me give you some advice…

Let me give you some advice…

Ed Steele January 20, 2006 Comments Off

So you have all the antivirus antispyware anti-everything right? You’re safe and secure. You can browse the web safely too because you’re using FireFox. Let me give you some advice. The web is still

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Wine beats Windows?

Wine beats Windows?

Ed Steele January 19, 2006 Comments Off

WineHQ is reporting that wine beat windows xp in a number of benchmarking tests. They put wine 0.9.5 on identical Gentoo Linux machine and Windows XP SP2 machine and came up with some interesting

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You could SkypeOut or you could pull a VoIP Stunt!

You could SkypeOut or you could pull a VoIP Stunt!

Ed Steele January 17, 2006 Comments Off

For some time now, there have been internet apps designed to bring the telephone to the computer. Everything from websites with embedded applications to standalone apps. You may remember the names MyFreeLD.com, DialPad, Net2Phone,

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Thunderbird is to Outlook Express as FireFox is to Internet Explorer

Thunderbird is to Outlook Express as FireFox is to Internet Explorer

Ed Steele January 12, 2006 Comments Off

Mozilla.org has released version 1.5 of its stand alone email client Thunderbird. The great thing about Thunderbird is it’s clean and yet feature packed, like its brother FireFox. The latest incarnation does email, newsgroups,

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GUI GUI Gum drops!

GUI GUI Gum drops!

Ed Steele January 10, 2006 Comments Off

Listeners to the podcast PowerUser.TV got some interesting news in the recent podcast. An interview with Microsoft Windows Vista developers confirmed that the new GUI in Vista will be that glassy look we’ve come

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