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Entries from April 3rd, 2007

Getting WGET for OS X 10.4.x

April 3rd, 2007 9 Comments

!!! Geek Alert !!! Sometime ago Apple removed the tool wget from the OS X toolset and replaced it with the arguably more powerful curl tool. This new tool is great, and it has many new advanced features that the older wget tool lacks. However curl has one thing against it: it’s somewhat more complicated [...]

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EMI Kills DRM

April 2nd, 2007 2 Comments

Today, EMI and Apple announced the availability of the entire 5 Million song EMI catalog on iTunes DRM Free. This is the first major step towards a DRM free music Universe. This undoubtedly was affected by Steve Jobs’ open letter to the 4 Major RIAA partners, and is an extremely important development in the world [...]

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MacBook Tip – Drag Files to the Dock

April 1st, 2007 No Comments

Here’s a quick tip that will be a bit un-intuitive at first for those of you converting to Windows, but makes life much easier once you get used to it. If you have a file that isn’t automatically associated with a particular program, or you want to open it with a different app than usual, [...]

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