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How to Get Free Software, Music, and Videos Using Limewire (Mac OSX)

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Limewire is a software application called Peer to Peer or P2P. A P2P application allows you to search millions of individual user computers over the internet to find files you can download to your computer. This How To will walk you through ... more »

How to Make Custom iPhone Ringtones for Free

By Alexia Petrakos

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So, you bought an iPhone. You love the phone and all its features, but wish you didn't have to pay for your songs twice to get a ringtone. There are plenty of songs in your music library, but no way to make ringtones from any of them. Actually, ... more »

How to Restart a Frozen Mac

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If the cursor won't move, the time stops on the wristwatch cursor, or the keyboard won't talk to your screen, your Mac is "frozen," or has "crashed." Here are several ways to remedy the problem for Mac OS 8.0 or later... more »

How to Set Up Time Machine on Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard

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Time Machine is a backup program that's included as a standard feature of Mac OSX Leopard. Once properly set up, Time Machine automatically backs up your computer periodically (also called "serial backups"), allows you to look through the past ... more »

How to use Preview for Basic Image Editing: Crop, Rotate and Resize

By Alexia Petrakos

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Preview in Mac OS X has received an injection of features with the release of Leopard (OS 10.5). Among the new features are handy photo editing capabilities. Here you'll learn to use the most often used features of photo editing programs such as ... more »

How to Use Your Computer's Calculator

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Your computer's calculator will perform all the simple or complex tasks that you can do with a desktop calculator. Add, subtract, multiply, divide, calculate formulas and even perform scientific calculations, if you want... more »

How to View and Delete Browsing History on Safari

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Whenever you view a Web page, Safari automatically saves a record of its name and location in the Browsing History folder. This can be a helpful feature when you want to return to a Web page that you have previously viewed. It can also be ... more »

How to Create Custom iPhone Ringtones With GarageBand

By Alexia Petrakos

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Nintey-nine cents isn't a huge price to pay for a song, but if you already have a gigantic collection of music in your iTunes library and want to use one of those songs as a ringtone for your iPhone, 99 cents is a bit of a stretch. Apple now ... more »

How to Defragment a Mac Hard Disk

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When files get saved, changed, and erased, file attributes can get split up, or "fragmented," in your computer's disk space, slowing down your system. You can defragment your hard disk to get things up to speed again. The article refers to Mac OS ... more »

How to Diagnose Telephone Modem Problems

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In spite of inroads made by cable and DSL, telephone modems are still the most popular way to connect to the Internet, and they're an essential element of every road warrior's portable computer. Sometimes, though, they just refuse to make the ... more »

How to Get a free Laptop

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This how to article will show you your way to getting a free laptop. with a 100% legite site.. more »

How to Open .Rar Files on a Mac

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.Rar is a file format that is used to compress computer files and make them smaller. .Rar files can be broken up into equally sized parts for archiving and they can also be password protected. To open a .rar on your Mac, you usually need special ... more »

How to Play .Mkv Files on a Mac

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Most of the time, when you want to play a digital video on your computer, you just click on the file and it plays. On a Mac, most videos are played on the QuickTime Player. .Mkv files, however, are different. They can only play on certain ... more »

How to Remove the OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse from your Mac

By Alexia Petrakos

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So far the only malicious software known to infect Macintosh Computers is called the OSX.RSPlug.A, a rather insidious Trojan Horse. It's not exactly a virus since it doesn't replicate itself, but it can cause some damage. The only way to get this ... more »

How to Set Up a Macintosh

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These are the steps for setting up most Macintosh computers. Make the necessary adjustments if you have a built-in monitor or USB peripherals. You should be able to set up a Macintosh in about 10 minutes. .. more »

How to Change Mac IP Address

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An IP address identifies your computer to the world. There are many reasons why you might want to change your IP address. You might want to connect to your company network and need to get access behind its firewall. You might want to run your own ... more »

How to Format a Mac G4 Hard Drive

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Upgrading your Mac will keep it running quickly and smoothly. If you have just installed a new hard drive on your Mac G4, you'll need to format it and then install an operating system (Mac's current operating system is known as OS X)... more »

How to Adjust Sound on a MacBook

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Adjust sound properties on a MacBook and MacBook Pro by using the preferences settings within the Mac OS interface. The System Preferences section allows the adjustment of system settings such as screen resolution and brightness, keyboard, mouse ... more »

How to Become System Administrator on a MacBook

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On the Macintosh computer platform, it's necessary to become system administrator to accomplish several tasks. If the Macintosh platform is used by several people, then only a select number of users will have administrator privileges. The reason ... more »

How to Buy a Mac Computer

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Buying a Mac requires a bit of legwork, but any Mac user will tell you, the effort is worth it. With today's Macs, you can run all major OSs, even Windows Vista. Your accessories like printers and digital cameras are all compatible with Macs. ... more »

How to Buy RAM for Mac Mini

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Mac mini is a perfect choice for those who want to work with pictures, movies, music, digital photos and the Web. New technology such as the Intel Core Duo processor has made running most applications at an acceptable speed possible. You can ... more »

How to Buy RAM for your PowerBook

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For a while, Apple’s PowerBook was the fastest laptop available. Among the PowerBook series, PowerBook G4 is the latest. There are two models: the 15-inch PowerBook G4/1.67 and the 17-inch PowerBook G4/1.67. Both support up to 2 GB of RAM and run ... more »

How to Change a QuarkXPress Document's Page Size

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You can change the page size of a QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.0 document for Macintosh. This feature is helpful when your original design plans change. Windows instructions may vary slightly... more »

How to Clean the Screen on a MacBook

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Laptop screens are more susceptible to dirt and grime than desktop computers. With new materials and technologies available today, screens are less likely to break, however cleaning them has become more problematic as they are made from materials ... more »

How to Create a Desktop Slideshow in Mac OS X

By Alexia Petrakos

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In Mac OS X, it's always been easy to change your desktop picture, but did you know you can automatically cycle through a series of desktop pictures, just like a slide show? If you get bored easily with one background or if you'd just like to ... more »

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