So you’ve installed Vista on your Mac using Boot Camp. But you’re tired of rebooting every time you need to do something in Windows. Using Parallels Desktop for Mac, you can access that Vista Boot Camp partition, and run that copy of Vista from inside of OS X. Follow the steps outlined below and you’ll be set.
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This brief tutorial will guide you through the steps required to export Facebook Events and import them to Calendar.app on your Mac. …
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Playing NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video) files in OS X is actually quite easy. You just have to download and install MPlayer for OS X. For complete instructions, keep reading. …
This walkthrough will take you through every step of installing Microsoft Windows Vista on your Intel Mac (running 10.5 or later), using Boot Camp. It will cover a number of possible errors that you may encounter, and how to get around them. Each time I bring up an error I will explain in detail what you’ll need to do to resolve the issue and continue installing Vista. It’s up to you to decide if it’s worth the time and effort (for example, you may need to completely wipe your hard drive clean and restore from a Time Machine backup). It’s also possible that everything will go perfectly smoothly and you’ll wonder why you even needed a guide.
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It would be an understatement to say that quite a few users were unhappy when Leopard (OS X 10.5) changed the Dock style. Ever since then, a flurry of software authors have come out with programs to alter the look and feel of the Dock. I’ve tried a number of these programs, and have come up with a winner – SuperDocker. And as an added bonus, it has a number of features that aren’t Dock related, but are still super useful. Oh, I should also mention, SuperDocker is free (actually it’s donation-ware, so if you really like it, do consider donating). Keep reading for my full review with screenshots. …
This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to search for and play YouTube videos from directly inside of the Ubuntu Totem Media Player. Also included are the steps required to watch the higher quality H264 videos that YouTube now includes. …
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Using the absolutely fantastic app Fluid, you can run any web application (Gmail, Facebook, Twitter – the list is endless) on its own, as its own application. The benefits of working this way are numerous – if one app crashes, it won’t bring them all down (ie. a regular browser). You can create shortcuts to the specific app/site in your Dock or Applications folder (or both). This brief tutorial, which could also be called “an introduction to Fluid” – will give you the rundown on using it, configuring and using its plugins and more. …
This tutorial will guide you in downloading, installing and setting up Conky, a free, light-weight system monitor for X11 that lets you display system info on your Linux desktop.
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This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to access any shared files, folders or printers you may have set up on Windows XP, from Windows Vista.
A bit of background, from a Microsoft TechNet site that isn’t around anymore:
Network Map uses a discovery protocol called Link-Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) in order to query the other devices on the network to determine how the network is organized. Computers that are running Windows Vista include the software components that implement the LLTD protocol. For network computers that are running Windows XP to appear on the map, they must have a discovery protocol enabled that can respond to the mapping computer’s requests.
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If you have a second hard drive, or even a second partition on your existing hard drive, it might be a good idea to relocate your data (music, documents, pictures, videos etc). This allows for easier/faster backups, and you can even re-install Vista without having to worry about losing your files. You can also do this with just one of the folders – for example if you have a ton of audio files and don’t want to use all the space on your C:\ drive to store music, you can relocate just the Music folder. Follow the steps outlined below to move your files to a new location… …
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This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to access your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch through the Finder, via Wi-Fi.
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This tutorial will guide you through setting up and using WWWinamp, a Windows web server-like application that allows remote control of Winamp via any web browser. If you run a media server in your house and want to be able to control what’s playing in Winamp without having to go to that server, this is the program for you. …
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This very brief tutorial will guide you through the steps to set Thunderbird to leave mail on the server. Leaving your mail on the server can be helpful if you use Thunderbird on a portable USB drive to check your email while away from your main computer. That way when you return to your main desktop/laptop, you can still download all of your email. …
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