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Create a Smart Playlist for Unheard Podcasts

I listen to a lot of podcasts. Sometimes they start to pile up, and I want to get through as many as possible. I decided that I’d make a smart playlist just for such occasions. This smart playlist will take all of the podcasts that haven’t been listened to, and put them in order of [...]

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Snow Leopard, why so soon?

I’ve had quite some time to think about the concept of snow leopard, but I’m still struggling with the concept in its entirety. Here we are, just over the one year mark for Leopard, and we’re already gearing up for a first quarter release in 2009 of Snow Leopard. I know the acceleration at which [...]

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Creating video animations on the cheap with keynote.

Who needs motion? For most of us, motion is a little overkill.  Sure it creates pretty little animations for your videos, but so does keynote.  Yup, you heard me right. Keynote lets you create an animation and export it as a .mov file, so you can use it in your home videos, podcasts, screencasts, and [...]

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Make Your Desktop Cheerier

Ho ho ho! As Christmas draws closer, I start looking for more ways to deck my halls with boughs of holly. As I spend a large portion of my day working on my Mac, it only makes sense that I would want to expand my decorations to my desktop too. Well, I looked around, and [...]

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Is Apple Care worth the price?

Is Apple Care worth the extra cost? We have more and more converts converting to the Mac end of the computing spectrum. When they begin looking at purchasing their machine they must ask themselves, do I spend the extra cash on Apple Care or get more on the computer and forego Apple Care? Well, it depends. [...]

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