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There’s a quick list of Easter Eggs over on LifeHacker… Some of them are pretty sweet (Google Earth Flight Sim!).  Some are old classics.
Have a look at the LifeHacker post, and then check out these other two sites for a few more:

Mac OS X Easter Eggs
Windows Easter Eggs

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Dave’s choices in naming episodes not withstanding, we had a great show again this week.  I joined the geeks for the latest round of the Global Geek Podcast.
LiteIcon
First up this week is FreeMacSoft’s LiteIcon.  This is a great application for helping you manage the system icons on your Mac.  Apple has a tendency to dumb-down [...]

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Another week and another GGP. We had an absolute blast on this week’s show. So on with this week’s collection of Mac Freebies:
iPhoto Batch Image Enhancer
This application gives you the ability to make changes to large batches of your iPhoto images. This is a standalone application and doesn’t integrate into iPhoto, but [...]

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It’s been a busy week this week, and there’s some news items that I just didn’t get to yet.  This one comes to us courtesey of TechCrunch.
One of the most popular photo editing programs for Windows has to be Google’s Picasa.  Though it’s not the most full-featured image editing on the market it’s free and [...]

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OK, so it’s been about a month since I installed Leopard, and there are a few things that have been bugging me.  One which is a constant source of frustration for me (since I’m really a keyboard guy at heart) is the fact that by default, OS X won’t allow you to “tab” your way [...]

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UsingMac.com has posted a great tutorial for tweaking several new OS X settings from the terminal.   These mostly make use of the defaults command which allows you to adjust any of the XML config files that make up OS X.

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I found an interesting bit of hidden text in OS X.  The icon for “TextEdit” actually contains legible text if you can enlarge it enough to read.

This is in addition to the other little “hidden gem”… Those cute kids in Cupertino thought it would be cute to paint every non-mac computer with the Blue Sceen [...]

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I realize that many of you reading this are well aware of the tediousness of regularly performing your windows updates.  Hopefully it’s not as bad as this guy… I mean hell we’ve all done it.  Reload your Windows PC and spend 30-60 minutes running Windows Update multiple times to make sure you’ve covered everything.
So why, [...]

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Caught this story over on DownloadSquad tonight.  OS X Leopard causes a problem with the Adobe Flash plugin for all browsers on OS X (Firefox, Safari and Opera were tested).  The problem has been acknowledged by Adobe but no release date of a fix has been determined.
As I found out last night it makes the [...]

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Well that didn’t take long…
BrazilMAC over on the OSx86Scene forums has posted a tutorial on installing Leopard on your stock PC hardware. I don’t see any way that Apple would release a more standard version of OS X… the fact that it only has to run on Apple hardware is part of what makes [...]

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