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Loud Fan and Low Battery — What to Do?

By on November 24, 2008 in Hardware, Mac OS, Tweaks

Mikul asks: Hey, our MacBook’s fan has been run­ning really loud lately. It used to not at all, and now it does 100% of the time, even when we’re not run­ning any­thing. Also, the bat­tery has been last­ing for a lot less time than it used to. Any ideas of what it is or what […]

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Any Document To .pdf

Any Document To .pdf

By on November 19, 2008 in Conversion

Portable Doc­u­ment For­mat, or .pdf, is my favourite file­type to send to oth­ers when I want to show them a doc­u­ment, and I care about for­mat­ting, file­size and com­pat­i­bil­ity. Your Mac comes with Pre­view, and Win­dows users can down­load a mul­ti­tude of .pdf read­ers like Foxit Reader and Acro­bat to read .pdf’s.

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Switching to Mac 101

By on November 17, 2008 in Mac, Mac OS, Switcher, Tip

When I bought my first Mac sev­eral years ago, it took a while to fig­ure out how to do all the stuff I already knew how to do on my PC. While I am a techie, geek and Mac Addict and spent the time fig­ur­ing this stuff out, there’s no need for you to have […]

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PDF Viewing for Firefox 3

By on November 13, 2008 in Basic, Configuration, Internet, Tweaks

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 […]

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Keep Your Computer Awake!

Keep Your Computer Awake!

By on November 3, 2008 in Basic, Mac, Tweaks

I love show­ing my friends YouTube videos when they come to my place, but I hate shak­ing that mouse to keep the screen from dim­ming. Some­times in protest I turn the screen/power sav­ing off, but then I for­get to turn them back on. Headache!!!So I finally got sick of this and installed a slick little […]

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If you can think it, it can happen

By on November 3, 2008 in Science

If you’ve seen Star Wars, you’ve no doubt wished that you could move an object just by think­ing about it. Well, mankind is a step closer to this real­ity. 60 min­utes recently broad­cast a story about Brain Con­trol Inter­face (BCI), and I’m still reel­ing from it, just think­ing about the impend­ing fall­out from this technology. […]

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Custom Gadget of the Day

By on October 17, 2008 in Miscellaneous

“A big red but­ton is, by human nature, an object of com­pul­sion. If you see it, you are over­come with the desire to push it. But what hap­pens when you do?” I need one of these!!! Here’s the story behind the EPB.

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