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Article: HexEdit iMovie '09 to run on G4 PowerPC
If you love making movies but still are booting up a PowerPC Mac, you are probably upset that you can't launch iMovie '09, which is Intel-only. The good news is that according to an unconfirmed tip (from macosxhints.com) you can edit a few spots of a...
Article: Mac Security by Toyota
When you think of laptop security you generally think of locks, cables, and encrypted disk images. Add one more to that list, Toyota. Yes the car maker has made a sweet little app for those of you with security on your mind. Toyota is releasing a ne...
Article: MrJoy supports the troops
We'd like to give a salute to Jon Frisby of MrJoy, Inc. MrJoy and Freeverse have donated over 20,000 copies of Hordes of Orcs to the US Armed Services through Games For Soldiers (gamesforsoldiers.org). Never heard of Hordes of Orcs? It's awesome, bu...
Article: One more reason to block Javascript
For the past few months I've been a crazy man about scripts running in my browsers. I use FireFox with NoScript and a Flash blocker on top of it. Why the paranioa about scripts, it's two fold. First, I want to know what is running on the web br...
Article: Really Maximize Your Windows
One of the most annoying things about Mac OS X is the green button. Yeah, you get used to it's quirky ability after a while, but in the end I just stopped using it most of the time. But no more. Finally the green button can do what it is supposed to...
Article: Some "bad-ass cool" laptop hacks/apps (SMS)
The Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) has been in the laptops for a while now. Their original purpose was to detect a sudden motion (hence the name) and prepare the hard drive and other components for impact. But that's just too plain.Enter Jeff Thurana. ...
Article: Understudy fixes Netflix/Hulu streaming bug
Understudy, the FrontRow plug-in that allows streaming content from Hulu and NetFlix, has been updated to version 0.6.3. While this is only a small version upgrade, it is a big one. This one fixes a break that would not allow you to use it. So if y...
Article: What makes a Mac App?
A little off topic, but an interesting thought ...Recently I was filling out a form trying to convince a non-Mac developer to port their software to the Mac platform and they had the question, "In your own words, what differentiates a Mac product from...
