by Joe Aimonetti
Recent announcements from popular video hosting Web sites YouTube and Vimeo that they will now be offering HTML5 compatible video streaming have tremendously positive affects for Mac users. YouTube kicked off the announcement on Wednesday with Vimeo following suit shortly thereafter. If video on HTML5 gains traction, we could see the end or [...]

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Apple updated and added knowledge base articles to help MobleMe users understand MobileMe billing, and to answer questions about emails from Apple regarding MobileMe.
The first article will help you understand what you need to do if you receive an email from Apple about your Mobile account, and how to get help resolving any issues. The [...]

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January 15, 2010 | Charles Lindauer
There are two major complaints/issues for computer users, in my experience. The first is data loss prevention. Hopefully, you’ve never experienced this problem.
Protecting your data
Protecting business data should be a primary concern for all business owners and managers. As dependent as we all are on our computers, Macs or PCs, [...]

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Yep. Maintenance. Just like your car, a Mac needs to have “stuff” done to it from time to time, to keep running normally and to prevent slow performance and the dreaded SPOD (spinning pizza-wheel of death).
CAUTION: Unless specifically noted, the links to applications will be for Snow Leopard versions. Contact the developer for earlier versions.
When [...]

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Apple posted a knowegebase document that most of will need sooner or later. The content is below:
If you’re troubleshooting a broadband Internet connection issue related to your modem or router, you should ask your ISP certain questions (or check their support website).  If you use a modem/router that your ISP did not provide, you should ask the [...]

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I hope everyone had a good holiday season… safe, full of laughter, friends and family, without drama. Unfortunately, not all of us did. I remember hearing a lot of sirens here in Petaluma (Sonoma County) and thinking that someone was not going to be so happy for the holidays.
If you know of anyone in this [...]

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From Macworld today, four great tips for working with PDFs in Snow Leopard, paraphrased below:
1. E-Mail PDFs with one click
Many of us use the PDF button at the bottom of the Print dialogue box to save a document as a PDF. That’s a great trick available in Leopard. Another great trick is the Mail PDF [...]

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Reports from DRAMexchange indicate that the supply of memory chips may be in short supply in the latter part of 2010. Consumer demand for more memory, and company replacement of current computers will drive the shortage.
Memory prices have risen most of the past year, but seem to have stabilized in the past couple of months. [...]

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External Hard Drives – FireWire vs. USB: Why should we care?

December 24, 2009

More and more external drives are offered with a USB 2.0 interface only, without FireWire. Even MacBooks are sold without a FireWire interface. PCs hardly ever have FireWire avaialble.
Why should we care?
FireWire is a transfer method designed for data transfer. USB was originally designed for device control. That doesn’t matter so much any more, and [...]

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Microsoft Office loses suite over OpenXML

December 23, 2009

Microsoft lost an appeal to a patent infringement suit yesterday, regarding how the Office suite opens OpenXML documents. OpenXML has been the standard document format for Office 2007 (Windows) and 2008 (Mac), which has caused problems for users of earlier versions. A converter is necessary to open OpenXML docs in the earlier formats.
Microsoft is required [...]

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