March 18, 2009
“Computer, how many Romulan battleships are there?” Captain Kirk said. “Ten” a soft female voice answered. “What’s our chance of survival?” “Zero percent.” Kirk smiled and said “Computer, increase the shield to maximum.” He sat on his chair on the bridge “and play me some Mozart.” “Affirmative.” Then the scene from my imaginary episode of [...]
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March 17, 2009
If you’re a long-time MUO reader, you’ll know we’re fans of the multi-platform IM client Digsby. We’ve showed you some cool features, and even how to make it even better looking. We have also interviewed Digsby’s project manager, Steve Shapiro. Today, I’m going to put in my own plug for Digsby, an application I use [...]
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March 15, 2009
Picture this scenario: Arriving home after work, you drive slowly to your front gate, and the gate door opens automatically. The lamps are turned on and the garage door is opened – also automatically – while your car is approaching the garage. A minute later you lock the car, enter the house, the garage door [...]
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March 13, 2009
Do you find yourself using GoToMeeting or some other similar screen sharing application? Do you hate its corporate feel? Do you want something a little friendlier for your meeting? How about a full blown free screen sharing application that includes file transfer and remote control? This is cross platform and works on Windows and Macs. [...]
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March 9, 2009
LEGO is a timeless toy that generations have enjoyed around the world. Back in 2003, LEGO released a free software tool called LEGO Digital Designer. The easiest way to describe it is to say that it is a CAD tool that uses LEGO bricks to perform the design. You can download LEGO Digital Designer for [...]
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March 8, 2009
One of the many things Mac users are proud of is the fact that we never have to turn our Macs off. Macs are built to run for days, weeks, months and even years (in some instances) on end without ever restarting. And it hardly ever feels bogged down. If my Mac isn’t performing any [...]
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March 4, 2009
Since early 2008, all portable Macs (MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air) have introduced media control keys and specific keys for Exposé and Dashboard. These keys, while greatly appreciated for everyday use, quickly become a hassle when playing games, especially FPS games like Counter-Strike and Quake where mapping keys like F1, F2 and so on are [...]
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March 3, 2009
Online music stores have brought tons of advantages. You can buy your favourite music without ever leaving your seat, and buy single songs instead of whole CDs. Sadly, they also brought some bad things; DRM amongst others. With internet as a news medium, a lot of companies saw their chance to deliver a strike to [...]
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March 1, 2009
Generally, Stacks has been ill-received by the Mac community due to its lack of functionality although it was pretty hyped up before Leopard was launched. In my opinion, Stacks isn’t as bad as most people make it seem. I’ve found several useful reasons to keep it around, one of which is detailed here: Use Stacks [...]
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February 28, 2009
Recently I wanted to create a photo mosaic for one of my friends’ birthday. In case you don’t know, a photo mosaic is a picture that has been divided into (usually equal sized) rectangular sections, each of which is replaced with another photograph of appropriate average color. Looks quite good and special, especially if you [...]
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February 25, 2009
Check out some of the latest makeuseof discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. (1) Alertpedia – If you like to stay up-to-date on things like fluctuating air fares, price of an item [...]
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February 25, 2009
Back in the days when computer hard disk capacities were within the range of a few megabytes and the majority of files were text documents, compression utilities like WinZip and WinRAR ruled the land. But in the terabytes world of today, we do not really need to compress any file for the sole purpose of [...]
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February 25, 2009
I recently had a spine-chilling, blood-curdling experience. I accidentally spilled a whole cup of hot, steaming coffee on my MacBook. I’ve always been the cautious type, taking very good care of my electronics and everything else in general. When I read about other Mac users spilling coffee on macbook, I wonder – how can people [...]
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February 22, 2009
I’m not an advocate of piracy but here’s a cool idea to grab songs off YouTube. As you may know, YouTube has a huge collection of music videos. Sometimes, I’d watch a music video over and over again just to listen to the song. I’ve just found a nifty application which will extract the audio [...]
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February 21, 2009
Most of the digital images and pictures you see on the web are raster graphics images or bitmaps (.bmp). A raster graphics image is simply defined with a grid of pixels that are set to certain colors. Raster graphics images are resolution dependent and cannot be made larger without loss of apparent quality. Therefore, for [...]
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