Macgasm

Listen to Macgasm #003 Live!

On Thursday, the 24th of May, the epic third episode of the Macgasm podcast will be broadcast live over Talkshoe.com. If you want to call in and be a part of the show, at 9 PM EST, you can call 1-724-444-7444 and join the show 31133. You’ll need to have a Talkshoe account, but fear not. [...]

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Slim down the Chunky Applications

Are your universal binaries clogging up your application folder? No worries, if you only want to use an application on an Intel Mac or only on a PowerPC Mac, you can use a great application called TrimTheFat. This application will throw out the extra code that is use to support both architectures in your applications. [...]

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Download OS X Updates from Anywhere

Everyone should be running “Software Update” on their Macs. It provides critical updates to OS X. However, sometimes it isn’t handy to get your updates where you are. For example you might not have a very fast internet connection at home, but you have a T1 at work. That is where Apple’s website comes in [...]

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Find Useless Large Files

If you’re like me, you collect junk on your computer all of the time. Sometimes I like to go through and find all of the bulky stuff that I don’t use, and then throw it the hell away. Here is a quick and dirty way of cutting to the chase: 1) Launch a new Finder Window. 2) [...]

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Macgasm #002

  Trash in the Finder sidebar. GB The RAM guide. GB Contextual menus on dock folders. GB Senuti does what Nintendon’t Apple doesn’t. GB Seashore is great for mild editing. GB Project Calculator vs Billable (specifically tracking time spent on projects). JS

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