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How To Open Documents With Windows Applications On Mac OS (Using VMWare Fusion)

I love VMWare Fusion, because it allows me to run Windows applications on my Mac seamlessly. It gets to the point that I want some forms of documents to always open with Windows applications. For instance, I don’t like Mac Office, and would rather use Windows Office to open my Office documents. The problem was [...]

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How To Find Out What Network Adapter You Have

I run a virtualised copy of Windows XP with VirtualBox, and one thing that I couldn’t get running was the network adapter, or ethernet controller. There’s a free Windows program that helps you with this problem though: Everest. Download and install Everest, and it should tell you the manufacturer and model number of your card [...]

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How To Run The Apple Hardware Test On Your Mac

After I did my last post on 4 Months After Switching Over From Windows To A Mac, I got asked about how I actually ran the Apple Hardware Test on loop mode. To do so, you’ll need the Applications Install DVD that came with your Mac. This is the one that has a little block of [...]

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How To Login To Apple Genius When Your Password Is Rejected

I was trying out Apple’s iTunes Genius today, but then kept getting an error message saying that my Apple login credentials (username or password) was invalid. I was 100% sure that my username and password were correct, and even went to Apple.com to login again to make sure. It was annoying, but I finally found a [...]

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How To Use Spaces Effectively With Multiple Monitors On The Mac

Many people swear by Spaces, a feature on the Mac that allows you to have multiple desktops, and have applications “assigned” to each desktop. I think it’s a fantastic idea too, but using it together with multiple monitors just creates a bad experience. The current problem with it now, in my opinion, is that Spaces takes [...]

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How To Disable Gmail’s Spam Filter or Spam Box With 2 Easy Steps

There are several things that I hate, and one of them is spam. The problem with spam is not actually reading the spam, but having to live with all the workarounds that have now surfaced to reduce the onslaught of spam. For example: anti-spam filters in your mail program. In the past, like 10 years [...]

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Tweeting with TweetDeck and HootSuite?

I’ve recently gotten more active with tweeting, and I’m trying out twitter clients such as TweetDeck and HootSuite. I think they’re great ideas, and what they’re doing currently is great. What I found was that the two applications were pretty similar. TweetDeck is a Rich Internet Application built on Adobe AIR, which allows it to run [...]

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