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The folks over at MacUpdate are doing it again.  They’ve bundled together a ton of apps and are selling them off for one low packaged price.  The deal is set to expire this Tuesday, December 12th at about 20:00 PST.
The software included in the bundle is:

ForkLift
RapidWeaver
Swift Publisher
Marine Aquarium
Xslimmer
Memory Miner
Yep
XMind 2008 Pro
iStabilize
PulpMotion (still locked)

Full retail cost [...]

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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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Widely publicized already, I felt compelled to add to the chorus when I put this change in. Below are terminal commands you can use to switch back and forth between the new 3-D and 2-D dock configurations.
To enable the 2D Dock, open up a terminal window and enter the following two commands
defaults write com.apple.dock [...]

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Well, I survived the upgrade.  No major challenges.  In fact the hardest thing was finding a CD I was looking for…  but more to come on that.
So far I’m pretty impressed with the performance boost that I’ve gotten from the new OS.  I’ll be doing a longer post on my Leopard experience in the next [...]

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I’m just about to start my upgrade to OS X 10.5 “Leopard”.
I called around to a few London Drugs locations today trying to sort out where I’d make my purchase, and to see how many copies each had. It seems like most LD locations only got 10 copies though several, like Brentwood where I [...]

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I’ve decided to take the plunge tomorrow and pick up a copy of Leopard.  Hopefully I’ll have it all installed and ready by the time we record this week’s episode of the GGP.
I was trying to figure out how I can streamline the process of getting myself back up to speed as quickly as possible.  [...]

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In trying to upload my first Wordpress plugin to the subversion servers at wp-plugins.org, I found that I didn’t have Subversion installed on the Macbook yet. So I turned to my first source for all Mac tools which originated in the Linux/Unix realm and that’s MacPorts.
MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts) is a package manager for Mac [...]

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Several months ago I picked up a new machine, a MacBook, from which the bast majority of these blog posts have flowed. I absolutely love my MacBook and I can see myself becoming a regular Mac user with future computer purchases. That said, for about the past 15 years, I’ve been a devout Windows user. [...]

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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, you [...]

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I just found an application called Flip4Mac which allows you to listen to or watch Windows Media streaming feeds in Firefox on your Mac!
The plugin is small, and installed without a hitch.  Within 3 minutes of my Google Search I was listening to the Canucks’ game on the Team 1040 streaming feed!
If you love your [...]

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