How To Delete Files to Prevent Crashes in OS X 10.5.6

Apple has recently posted several articles that offer advice on how to prevent crashes and freezes related to the Mac OS X...

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Banish your daemons for a faster Linux PC.

How to manage your machine's background processes

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6 Computer Destructions by Girlfriend

In this episode from SpecBox, clever use of annotations allow you to choose your own adventure so you get a different story every time.

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30 Excellent WordPress Video Tutorials

You’ll find the tutorials organized into several topics that include theme development and customization, site administration, beginner’s tutorials, and using some WordPress tools.

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The 10 Best Android Apps of 2008

Following only two months behind iPhone 2.0 (but at a significant installed-base disadvantage), Android still has a long way to go. But there is definitely some early potential. Here's the favorite apps of the year.

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Banish your daemons for a faster Linux PC.

How to manage your machine's background processes

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Linux Mint 6 Felicia Review : It Must Be Christmas

Linux Mint version 6 Felicia came out on December 15th and I have been running it on my Dell Inspiron 530 Q6600 system for the past week. I should note, however, that while Mint includes proprietary software it is far from being a better looking Ubuntu knockoff with Flash and MP3 working right out of the box.

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First day with a new Mac: 20 OS X tips for Windows Users

Just got a new Mac for Christmas and feeling a little bewildered?Fear not - Below are 20 common tasks that PC owners perform without thinking about, and their equivalents on a Mac - just as easy!

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 on Linux uses less memory

I mentioned a couple of months ago that there was room to improve Firefox's memory use for font handling on Linux. With Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, you can now enjoy these improvements.

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Dude! Where is my disk space?

If Parkinson's Law for computers holds true, then no matter how much disk space you have, it will get used up. If you're already feeling a pinch, consider using a disk space analyzer tool to see what's eating your space.

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How to Re-Enable Jailbreaking in Mac OS X 10.5.6

The Mac OS X 10.5.6 update broke pwnage, the unlocking/jailbreaking program for the iPhone. Fortunately, there's now an easy solution to fix this problem. You just need an Automator script and these simple instructions.

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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers

In this collection, you'll find 25 excellent Photoshop tutorials geared towards web designers. You'll find a variety of tutorials that include creating full web page templates, navigation menus, headers, and content boxes

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Installing Linux applications on OS X with Fink

Even though OS X is a Unix based operating system, you can not just take a Unix/Linux application and run it on OS X, you have to port it on OS X in order for you to use it.

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Transform Ubuntu into a Media Center with XBMC

Linux has come a long way in support for multimedia and graphics. Today we will see how to transform Ubuntu 8.10 into a media center platform. You can achieve this using various software like MythTV and Boxee, but we’re going to use XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center).

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8 Windows tools you didn't know you needed

IT shops have a never ending need for good management tools that don't require fuss or muss. Here's a list of eight easy-to-use tools that help with group policy management, training, password policy, collaboration, remote connectivity, managing your infrastructure, managing the new Server 2008 core.

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Setting up Sun VirtualBox 6 under Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid

I’ve been happily using VMWare’s VMWorkstation to test software setups in virtual machines for about a year. With my new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid test setup, I decided to try Sun’s VirtualBox virtualization system. I chose Sun’s distribution over the OSE version primarily because of its improved USB support. Both are free, but Sun’s version sports some

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How to Run OSX on a Netbook (Full Video Tut.from Gadget Lab)

Apple isn't ready to offer an inexpensive, low-powered netbook yet -- so why not make one yourself? In this week's video podcast, Brian Chen goes over the process of installing an illegal, hacked version of Mac OS X Leopard on an MSI Wind netbook.

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Use Your USB Stick As a Key to Start Your PC

This can be achieved by using a regular USB/pen/thumb drive (whatever you call it). The hack would be more than enough to keep even your curious geeky computer friends from booting into the system. That said, it is by no means foolproof (which security measure is? ) so you might not want to bet your life on it.

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Wine64 hello world app runs!

I can finally report success on the first ever win64 program running on wine. The program was a textbook classic, but to make it work gcc had to be changed a lot.

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Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos

Below are the Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos, is it Better than jQuery?Quite, possibly.

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