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Control + Alt + Delete for Mac

Control + Alt + Delete for Mac

Cas asks: What is the short­cut key to force quit an appli­ca­tion on a Mac? Short answer: ⌘ + option + escape Long answer: Although many Mac zealots would say oth­er­wise, Apple Mac com­put­ers are not per­fect. Occa­sion­ally, appli­ca­tions will quit work­ing and you’re stuck star­ing at what I like to call, “the Rain­bow wheel Of […]

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Extend your wireless network… on the cheap

The camp I work at just sub­scribed to broad­band inter­net (bring­ing us out of the dial-up ages) and we decided it’d be a nice ges­ture to hook up our site manager’s house with inter­net too. Prob­lem: the camp manager’s office in his house and our new inter­net access point are ~100 metres, 5 walls, and a […]

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Help! My video looks like junk!

Help! My video looks like junk!

Cor­win says: I’m work­ing in Final Cut Pro, but the video in the viewer looks very dis­torted… there’s lines all through it, and it looks inter­laced. I just switched com­put­ers from an eMac to the new iMac. I don’t get it, I even have the can­vas size at 100%, so it should be run­ning at […]

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Download YouTube videos

Download YouTube videos

Alexa writes: I down­loaded some videos from youtube and they are cur­rently in flv for­mat. I’d like to put them into a pow­er­point, and I think I need to con­vert them to mpeg, or some­thing. But I don’t know how to do that or what pro­gram to use.Thanks! I get asked this ques­tion all the […]

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