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What’s Taking Up All That Space?

What’s Taking Up All That Space?

Alexa asks: I haven’t installed any­thing new. I haven’t added any large files to my com­puter. But I keep run­ning low on hard drive space! How do I find out what is tak­ing up all the room on my iBook? Apple’s Finder doesn’t cut it. It’ll tell you how much space is left on your hard […]

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iChat Video

iChat Video

For those read­ers out there who are using a Mac, I hope you are using iChat. Long ago I got tired of all the junk MSN had to offer and since I started using iChat I won’t ever go back. How­ever, I recently had been hav­ing prob­lems get­ting a video chat going on my Macbook […]

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From Windows to Mac

Keith asks: My Win­dows XP PC kicked the bucket, but its hard drive is fine. I bought an iMac; how do I get my doc­u­ments from my PC’s hard drive to my new Mac? You could net­work your PC and iMac, but your PC is fried. I rec­om­mend buy­ing a 3.5 inch hard drive enclo­sure that […]

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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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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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