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RSS 101: All of Your Favorite News and Blogs with One Click

An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a summary of a webpage, often of a blog or news website. It is a list of the most recent articles, each one with a short summary, and without the advertising. It is sometimes referred to as an “RSS Feed”. Good - the basics Your Safari web browser allows you to display, organize and...

Quick Tech Tip: Perian Updated

Those of you who play a lot of video on their Macs and are running OSX 10.4.7 or later may want to pick up the latest version of Perian, which was updated earlier this afternoon. For those of you unfamiliar...

We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges!

Mac users have forever scoffed at the idea of installing anti-virus software on their Macs. After all, in all the years that Mac OS X has been out on the wild (ten years and counting) there has not been one credible Mac virus that caused any sort of damage

Go faster with eSATA and OWC.

Many OWC and Newer Technology storage solutions can be hooked up via eSATA. For those of you who don’t know what eSATA is, it is a fast device connection currently capable of data transfer speeds up to 3.0Gbps. This results...

Ejecting stubborn CDs/DVDs from your Mac

It's not incredibly common, but it does happen once in a while—a disc gets stuck in your optical drive. There are a number of ways that this could happen, but it usually occurs when the disk is unmounted but doesn't get...

Mac mini can make your power bill a mini, too!

Maybe it’s just where I work, but it seems like I’ve been hearing a lot about the Mac mini lately. From upgrading the mini Servers, to adding one to your home theater system, to fixing the one in my Dad’s...

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