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Watching Hulu (Or If You Want to Hide Your IP Address)
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 […]
PDF Viewing for Firefox 3
I really like Firefox 3 and have always used it as my default web browser on both the Mac and PC platform. However, the way that Firefox handles PDF files is some what of an annoyance. If you are like me you too will find it rather odd then that when in Firefox and you […]
Google Adds Video Chat to Gmail
Google has (finally?) added video and voice chat capabilities to their gmail service. To enable the service, just visit this site and download and install the plugin. You’ll have to quit your browser once it’s downloaded before you can install it — but don’t worry, it will prompt you if you accidently leave Firefox open. Then, […]
Virus on a Mac?
So my older brother downloaded some malicious software on my parent’s iMac. Boom: computer doesn’t work. My dad took it to the local Mac fix-it shop and they said they couldn’t revive it. For the record, he was using Windows through Boot Camp when he downloaded said software. Mac’s don’t get viruses in their native […]
My Heart Will Go On
I love the classics. No, not Beethoven and Mozart, Super Nintendo and N64. The great news is, rather than dragging out your old console system from your parent’s basement, you can use an emulator on your computer and relive all those great classic gaming moments. Super Mario World looks great on SNES9x I am a […]
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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Six Unexpected Uses for the Application Switcher
I didn’t know about half of these.
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