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How to Improve Your Laptop Battery Life
It is irritating to look for a power outlet to charge your laptop battery when you are on the move. Mobile computing has transformed in recent years with better materials, amazingly smaller chips and faster processors, although there isn’t much development in the pursuit of increasing laptop battery life.
Installing WordPress Locally Using MAMP
Installing MAMP and running WordPress locally on your Mac is a simple task, however I was unable to find any good documentation while I was attempting to do it for the first time which made it seem really difficult. My goal with this tutorial is to help you download MAMP and WordPress and have them up and running in 15 minutes. Let’s get started…
How To Transfer Data To Your New Hard Drive
When it’s time to upgrade your hard drive, you have to get your current data—including Mac OS X and your applications, naturally—moved over to the new device. Levoltz recommends you clone your whole drive onto the new one.
How to Make your Own Mac Server
No matter how much time you spend surfing the web, you will never truly be a web ‘master (pun intended)’ until you create and develop a website. Below is a simple to follow tutorial that will put you on the path to creating your first web page and will allow you to join the growing ranks of web developers.
[Mac]The Swagbucks Widget
Well we all heard about the Swagbucks widget right? Well if not, that’s ok. It’s a nice little flash app that lets you access some of the SwagBucks features from any site you post it on, it also helps to attract referrals. The only problem I have with this widget, is that it’s kinda annoying, to have to launch your internet browser, go on Facebook or wherever you have it, just to look for a code, especially when Mac OSX comes with a dashboard full of widgets that are right there at the press of a button.
[Macbook]How to Force Restart your Mac Safely
Macbooks can sometimes be a little unreliable and will crash and freeze on you. If you have lots of programs open or the CPU is busy then it will be likely to crash. Here are some instructions on how to restart your mac without having to resort to the power button.
[Mac]How To Concealing A Program's Dock Icon
For those MAC users, here is a little trick that you should find very handy. If you are always using a MAC application but don’t want to see its icon… Read more
The Five Best Free Content Filters
Today, there are plenty of reasons to consider installing a content filter. They are excellent tools for parents hoping to keep inappropriate or explicit material away from their kids. Employers… Read more
How Do You Use MAMP?
I’ve been getting a lot of email lately about the MAMP tutorial, and I’m just curious how most of you out there are using it? I wrote the tutorial for WordPress, however MAMP will work with any program that will run on a server. I’ve been using it to develop WordPress themes, to quickly evaluate open-source software like a href=”http://www.openads.org/” title=”Openads” >Openads and to design simple css sites.
Tweetie for Mac – My First Impression
Tweetie released a couple of months back but I had the chance to test it on my iTouch and Macbook only a week ago. However, I was impressed with what… Read more
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