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22 Votes
Listening to podcast at high-speed
Posted by
d_tremblay 200 days ago
Mac Tips
Sometimes, some options in Apple applications should be there and they are just not there. iTunes has a missing option which is to listen to audio podcasts faster than they were recorded. I like to be efficient in my life and listening to audio podcasts at regular speed just makes me waste so much time. Surprisingly, this option is available on the iPhone and the iPod touch, but not in iTunes on
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22 Votes
Transforming text into an image file easily
Posted by
d_tremblay 211 days ago
Mac Tips
Sometimes, you may need text to be converted to an image files. There are many reasons why you might need this. I use it all the time to post my e-mail address on my website but I don't want to it to be text because it gets recognized by spam bot and I start to receive spam. Yes you can go in a graphic application, create a text box and then save it as a .gif, .jpeg or .png. Mac OS X has an even
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22 Votes
UltraVPN Setup for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Posted by
uzerzero 236 days ago
3rd Party Mac Apps
Internet privacy is becoming a big thing. I decided to switch from Tor to UltraVPN because it is slightly less secure, but much much faster. I couldn't find any set up information for Macs, so I made my own. You'll need basic Terminal knowledge and access to Windows of sort.
1. Download and install UltraVPN (http://www.ultravpn.fr/download.htm). Get both Mac and Windows versions. While you're Read More
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1. Download and install UltraVPN (http://www.ultravpn.fr/download.htm). Get both Mac and Windows versions. While you're Read More
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19 Votes
Menu Bar on a Secondary Monitor
Posted by
d_tremblay 236 days ago
Finder
If you own a Mac with two monitors and you want to have a menu bar on your second monitor, there is finally a solution for you. SecondBar is available from http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79 and it is a small utility that will let you activate a second menu bar. It won't include all the icons you have in the upper right corner of your main menu bar, however, it will include all the menus from the
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19 Votes
Spoofing your MAC address
If you've been reading my Tweets, you probably know that I have been in Florida over the holidays. My hotel thankfully had free WiFi, but it was provided by AT&T. All I've got to say is that what everyone has been saying about AT&T is so right. Their service is awful, even just for WiFi. The speed was absolutely horrendous and even worse, they completed blocked us out after downloading a mere
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20 Votes
Inexpensive cinema display
Posted by
d_tremblay 270 days ago
Mac Tips
Are you interested in getting a large cinema display for your Mac Pro, but you think the 24" is a bit too small. You would love the 30" one, but you think it is too old technology (not LED, no webcam, not mini-display port compatible)? Cali Lewis from Geekbrief TV has the solution! Buy the cheapest 27" iMac and use it as a monitor! It will be $100 cheaper than the 30" cinema display, almost the s
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21 Votes
Easily changing sound input and output
Posted by
d_tremblay 280 days ago
Finder
Do you frequently need to change the source of your sound inputs or outputs, but you don't feel like going to the System Preferences panel all the time. With Snow Leopard, there is a very easy way to do it. Just click on the sound icon in the upper right corner of your screen in the menu bar while pressing the ALT key. Instead of having the slider to change the volume of the sound, you will have
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8 Votes
Controlling iTunes and QuickTime with your iPhone earbuds
After some Googling, I realized that this is not entirely new. It seems to have came out about a year ago but since it requires the right combination of hardware, I just discovered it. With Leopard and all new Macs that were released starting with the unibody laptops, the headphone jack now recognizes the three connectors on the iPhone earbuds. What this means is that it is now possible to con
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