Best Posts on About This Mac From Dec 2008

Let’s say, hypo­thet­i­cally speak­ing, you wanted to watch the lat­est episode of 30 Rock but didn’t know where to turn because your VCR (VCR? What’s that?) is bro­ken and you haven’t been able to fig­ure out the whole down­load­ing tv shows off iTunes or any­where else on the inter­net (*cough*). You’ve heard of this web­site called Hulu but any­time you go there it gives you this message:It should be noted there can be issues with unin­stalling Hotspot Shield (detailed a bit on Apple’s sup­port forum and remov­ing the ads it uses from Safari).

For those of you that have a white mac­book and have had it for any length of time will notice the dis­col­oration of the palm rests. What once was a bright clean white mac­book as turned to a rather ugly look­ing colour. This can be an issue when you are show­ing off your amaz­ing Mac­book to your PC using friends. If you are like me you tried to use a vari­ety of clean­ers, windex, etc to clean it, all of which did noth­ing to solve the problem.

If you like to twit­ter (What is twit­ter?) on occa­sion and would like to be noti­fied when­ever there’s a new post up on About This Mac, hit up this link and click follow.We prob­a­bly won’t use it for much more than just new con­tent noti­fi­ca­tions, at least for now. So if you’re already sub­scribed to the RSS feed then you’re prob­a­bly good to go.

Happy Birth­day to the Mouse.The com­puter mouse turns 40 via Macworld.

If you are like many peo­ple online you are prob­a­bly using Mozilla’s Fire­fox as your web browser of choice. If you aren’t using Fire­fox then this post won’t directly related to you. How­ever if you are… read on.Do you save pass­words to fre­quently vis­ited web­sites in Fire­fox with this dia­logue drop down menu?If so, do you uti­lize the Fire­fox mas­ter pass­word, which can be set here:I would greatly advise using a mas­ter password.