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After a somewhat brief Aikido class tonight I was enlisted by Crow to help rid a Vista machine of the Vundo trojan which found it’s way onto the machine (prior to Avast being installed).
Avast did a great job of finding most things and cleaning them up.  What it had trouble with was a few DLLs [...]

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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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I’ve always been a bit of a stats monkey when it comes to… well pretty much everything.  I like to know how many there are, how long it takes, how much it costs.  I want the numbers.  But more than that, I want accurate numbers and often times in the past trying to get accurate [...]

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Hey everyone!
I was able to meet up with the geeks to join them for the recording of the 74th edition of the GGP. We covered a ton of stuff in this week’s show, and as promised here’s the details for this week’s Mac Lab Update.
Net News Wire
This was huge news this week. With [...]

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I took my first stab at Google Presentations today, and was pleasantly surprised. I could certainly lay the ideas for a PowerPoint deck using this setup, or even put together some quick and easy slides.
The real big seller for me was the ability to embed the presentation in your blog or website. Now, [...]

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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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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’ve been running a Linux machine at the house for some time now, experimenting with trying to use it for a central file server where I can get at things like music and pictures from any of the computers in the house, and in some cases from over the Internet.
I’ve tried using various incarnations of [...]

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I realize that for some of you, this story isn’t exactly news.  To be honest, even I’ve known about PortableApps for quite a while, but I’ve never put it to use until recently.
PortableApps is a series of applications which have been built and configured for the sole purpose of running from an external device such [...]

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Well here we are, the 10th edition of the Mac Lab Update for Global Geek Podcast #65!
This week’s first tool is a Dashboard Widget called Delivery Status that will allow you to track packages from over a dozen different companies. This quick and dirty widget allows you to quickly hunt down that pesky new [...]

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