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How To Create A Bootable OS X Mountain Lion USB Thumb Drive

How To Create A Bootable OS X Mountain Lion USB Thumb Drive

If you’ve followed our previous instructions on installing OS X Mountain Lion on your Mac, you have a backup of the Mountain Lion installer somewhere on a disk lying around. You can take this disk to any OS X computer running Lion and run the installer over there to upgrade it to Mountain Lion....
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How To Prepare Your Mac For Mountain Lion

How To Prepare Your Mac For Mountain Lion

As you all probably know by now, Mountain Lion was released yesterday. Unless, you’re one of those early adapter types, you’re probably holding out on upgrading your Mac for the weekend. In my opinion, though, the best time to upgrade to a new version of an operating system is when the first...
Filed in: Mac OS X
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How To Test The RAM On Your Computer

How To Test The RAM On Your Computer

The RAM is arguably the most important part of your computer. Apart from the processor, of course, but without some kind of memory, even the process is pretty much useless. A computer, without RAM, cannot run any application that you tell it to and might as well be a dead paper weight. If you’ve...
Filed in: Mac OS X, Open Source
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How to Transfer Contacts From Android to iPhone

How to Transfer Contacts From Android to iPhone

I recently purchased a new iPhone 4S after having used the original Nexus One for over two years. Now, like most of you who’ve changed phones more than once, I was prepared for the hard (and irritating) work of transferring my contacts from the Android to the iPhone. In the good ‘ol days...
Filed in: Internet, iPhone
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Mac: How To Encrypt An External Hard Drive In Lion

Mac: How To Encrypt An External Hard Drive In Lion

Most computer users use or carry around some kind of portable hard drive or flash disk these days. Considering how we use our computers, almost all of those portable drives tend to store an alarming amount of sensitive data. Have you ever thought what would happen if you lose the disk and the data gets...
Filed in: Mac OS X
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How To Make Free Ringtones For Your iPhone

How To Make Free Ringtones For Your iPhone

As awesome as the iPhone is, it has a lot of shortcomings. Apple fans would like to claim that Apple doesn’t really play the “features” game and would rather implement a few features well than having a hundred ill conceived features like it’s rivals. I agree with Apple’s...
Filed in: iPhone
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How To Convert Any Video File to Play On Your iPhone

How To Convert Any Video File to Play On Your iPhone

Apple’s iPhone and iPad are considered to be really picky when it comes to the type of video formats they play. And rightfully so. The iOS family of devices, that include the iPhone, iPad and the iPod touch, support only a few video formats and refuse to play anything else. In fact, iTunes itself...
Filed in: iPhone
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How To Automatically Start Up and Shut Down Your Mac

How To Automatically Start Up and Shut Down Your Mac

If you’re as lazy as I am, you really couldn’t be bothered with shutting down your computer every night before sleeping, and then having to turn it on again in the morning. Besides, being a minor annoyance, this really shouldn’t be a necessity in the 21st century! I mean, shouldn’t...
Filed in: Mac OS X
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How To Listen To Turntable.fm And Pandora Outside The US

How To Listen To Turntable.fm And Pandora Outside The US

This past weekend, Turntable.fm decided to shut down access to their service to listeners outside the US. According to a notice on their site, Turntable cannot offer their service to visitors outside the US anymore due to “Licensing Restrictions”. Turntable.fm is not the first web service...
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UnInstall Applications On Mac OS X Using AppCleaner

UnInstall Applications On Mac OS X Using AppCleaner

For all it’s UI slickness and user friendliness, Mac OS doesn’t really provide a good way to uninstall applications. The designers of OS X assumed that most people will install applications using the drag and drop approach and uninstalling application will be as simple as dragging the application...
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