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170 Spoons

February 29, 2008

170 SpoonsOriginally uploaded by orangejack.
If you're looking for a great new resource for tech tips and tutorials that are easy to understand, I think you should check out the new site by team Orangejack, 170 Spoons.
Not only are you going to learn some really cool things, but you're going to find some new ways [...]

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How To: Email pictures from iPhoto 08 with Gmail

January 19, 2008

One of the great new changes in iPhoto 08 (ok, iPhoto 7 if you want to be technical) is the bundling of the iPhoto library as one package file, a la unix. The advantages are numerous, with the largest being that it is now very difficult for users to accidentally delete or corrupt the library [...]

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How To: Import pictures from Mail.app to iPhoto

January 11, 2008

Since I didn't know this and it is a fairly popular support topic, I wanted to post a quick and easy method for importing pictures from Mail.app into iPhoto.
How To: Import pictures from Mail.app to iPhoto

Open an email with photo attachments in Mail.app
Click and hold the "Save" icon in the message header
Select "Add to [...]

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Convert AOL Email Address Book to Mac Address Book

December 16, 2007

With the holidays approaching, many people will be wondering how to download their AOL email address book to use in Mac OSX's default Address Book.
Luckily enough, AOL already has a tool that will allow you to download your AOL address book into OSX. To convert your AOL email contacts, all you need is to [...]

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Convert AOL Email Address Book to Google Gmail

December 16, 2007

As you probably know, Google's GMail is all the rage (and has been for the past few years). But as the service continues to expand, more and more people are leaving AOL and using the Google Gmail email.
The one drawback — of course — is that all of your AOL email address contacts are [...]

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Kernel Panics in Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard

November 10, 2007

After upgrading to Leopard, I am finding kernel panic & frequent shutdowns any time I put my airport under a continuous full load (ie very large uploads/downloads, extended streaming radio, p2p, bittorrent, peer-to-peer).
After doing a little research, it seems that Apple is aware of the kernel panic issue in Leopard, related to the airport [...]

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Adium to add video chat soon

November 4, 2007

With the release of Leopard for OS X, the developers of Adium are working to bring video chat to everyone's favorite Mac IM client.
The gang at Macapper have a screenshot and some commentary.
For those that haven't used video chat before – it's a killer app. When I'm traveling, Merrin and I use Skype with video [...]

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iCal knows what time it is

October 31, 2007

In the Leopard update, Apple has finally resolved one of the most frequent gripes of iCal users – the iCal dock icon was never updated unless the app was running. (Hence the tongue-in-cheek iCal Day celebration annually on Jul 17.)
With the Leopard upgrade, the iCal icon shows today's date… everyday.

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Blue Screen on OSX Leopard Upgrade

October 30, 2007

For those of you — like me — who experienced a blue screen upon booting an upgrade install of Mac OS X Leopard, here are a few tips to clear the errors that are preventing the system from rebooting.
COMMAND LINE METHOD
Reboot your Mac while holding Cmnd-S on your keyboard. Your computer will boot into the [...]

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How to: Convert iTunes song as Palm Treo Ringtone

September 28, 2007

My Palm Treo phone (a Treo 650) has some decent output for mp3s, so I wanted to convert a song in iTunes to use as a ring tone .

How to convert a song in iTunes to ringtone for Treo:
1. Open iTunes, choose a song you like, and play it. NOTE: [purchased music won't work [...]

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The Slingbox-ness

September 15, 2007

With me living out of the hotel in Orlando, I'm miles and miles away from my Tivo and the ESPN Gameplan college football package. I have to tell you – the separation has been killing me. (And my wife & dogs, too, of course.) If only there was some way to have access to my [...]

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How to Download Music from iPod to computer

July 18, 2007

For those of you looking to download music from an iPod to a computer using Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Mac OSX, here's all the tools you'll ever need.

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iPhone as a G6 wireless iPod

July 3, 2007

I'm already on the record as being blasé about the iPhone.
TUAW has found that you can purchase the iPhone and use it simply as a wi-fi iPod/PDA hybrid without maintaining an AT&T Wireless account.
Oh, really…. Now we're getting somewhere.
I wonder if you can make a call over wi-fi with Jajah.com? or fring.com? [...]

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iPhone? Eh.

July 1, 2007

The bang-to-hype ratio got a little out of sorts this week with the launch of the iPhone. (Of course, I haven't seen one, so I could just be an idiot on the subject.)
A part of me — the part that might be inclined to actually buy an iPhone — isn't focused on the "phone" features [...]

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MacGourmet – the perfect app for any kitchen!

June 26, 2007

I want to give a big shout out to Michael and his great MacGourmet app for Mac. I know a lot of you have probably used MacGourmet to keep track of your recipes, shopping lists, and wine notes for a while. If so, you know what a powerful tool it truly is. (If not, what [...]

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