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How to Stream all your Media over the Internet on a Mac with Orb
I have been on a constant quest for the ability to stream all my media that's on my Mac over the internet so I can get to it from anywhere. There are many solutions for steaming music and pictures but not that many for video. A program that coul...
How to Find Your Mac Address on a Mac
There are times when one needs to find the Mac address of a specific Network interface on a Mac computer. There is a simple way to find your Mac Address for your different devices. Each network interface will have a different Mac address. So your Air...
Fluid SSB Application – What is it all about?
I just wrote a post about how to make a Google Voice application with growl notifications using fluid and growl. I just thought it would be nice to take some time to explore what Fluid is and what else it can do. About Fluid Fluid is an ...
Use Your Xbox 360 Controller like a Gamepad with your Mac
The other day I was wondering if you could use an Xbox 360 controller with your Mac to play games like a gamepad. Well I thought perhaps the controller could be synced with the computer via Bluetooth. I then discovered that xbox controllers are not B...
WhatsOpen - eject those Stubborn Volumes from your Mac
Every once in a while I will have a disk image or a disk volume open and I will be unable to eject the volume because some application is using a file on the volume and the OS blocks you from ejecting it. The solution of course is to find the applica...
Microsoft and Apple disagreements and all out war
I’m sure that everyone has seen at least one PC vs. Mac commercial, either on TV or on the internet. Apple has launched several commercials that attack Windows and windows running computers for sometime now. Any weakness that a windows machine has ...
Record Time-lapse Movies Using your Webcam with Mac App Gawker
With an application called Gawker you can record time-lapse movies using your isight camera or any other webcam on the internet or one connected to your computer. You can also share your webcam with other people as well as combine up to 4 streams int...
How to Mount SSH and FTP File Systems on Your Desktop Mac OS X
Okay the other day I was wondering if it was possible to mount a SSH file system on your desktop. I know that the Mac finder can mount FTP file systems already but it can’t mount SSH. WHY?Why would you want to do this? Well it’s convenient...
Connecting your Xbox 360 to Your Mac to Stream Music and Video
Connecting your Xbox 360 to Your Mac So I don’t know why this is the case but when you read information on the Xbox media center it tells you that you have to have Windows Media Center version for XP to connect to the Xbox. Well that is not true y...
How to Run the Same Version of Office on Two Mac Computers on the Same Network at the Same Time
If you have more than one Mac on the same network and you installed your version of Microsoft Office on both of them you might have noticed that you can't run them at the same time. The Office program has a little script that runs and checks for ...
Boxee media center application for Mac and Ubuntu
Visit the site to see the media. So I found this Program called Boxee. Boxee is a media center application kind of like front row for your Mac. The advantage that Boxee has is that you can not only watch and listen to your media on your loca...
Google’s Picasa now on beta for Mac
Wow so Google at the MacWorld expo released the new beta version of Picasa for Mac. Picasa for those of you who don’t know is a free photo management program. It integrates with Google’s free online photo sharing service. So you can manage your p...
Best Free OSX Applications – Must Have Mac Programs
Here is my list of the best free programs that I have found for the Mac OSX. These programs are awesome and you should get everyone of them. Okay on with the show. Adium – Great little application that’s a multi-client instant message...
Netflix Instant Watch Finally on Mac and Firefox
Netflix has finally changed the plug-in for their instant watch feature to Microsoft’s SilverLight program which is kind of like flash but is designed to deliver streaming video much better that whatever they were using before. N...
How to Create Multiple User profiles in FireFox on Mac OSX l
I was wondering the other day if it's possible to create multiple users for Firefox within the same user account on a Mac. Of course after a little research I found someone who had a tutorial but I thought instead of just linking to him I would t...
How to Setup a Remote VNC Connection on Mac OSX
In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to setup a VNC connection between two computers so you can login to the host computer remotely. It's a great way to allow yourself access to a computer wherever you go.  ...
