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MacMost Now 79: Web Browsing Tips

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:25:03 +0000

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at three simple techniques that make Web browsing easier: tabs, find-in-a-page, and the bookmarks bar.

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MacMost Now 78: Typing Special Characters

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:56:15 +0000

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at how to use the Keyboard Viewer to easily find and insert special characters and accent marks into your text documents.

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Pystar Success Hinges on Community

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:43:56 +0000

    I was thinking about the new Pystar Apple clone computer. I guess the only advantage I can think of for buying this machine is price. Nothing is offered that you couldn’t get from Apple for a few more bucks. And the price is only marginally better. I think the low-end machine is about $400, but this doesn’t include leopard which will add another $130. And it also doesn’t include iLife which will add another $80. Then the box is about the same price as a Mac mini, though it still has a better video card.

    But then there is the issue of support. Just the other day I was working on an iMac G5 trying to make a DVD. I was using iDVD and I kept getting an error message. I figured a way around the issue, but if this had not been an Apple Computer but a Pystar computer than I would never have known if the issue was due to the software or the fact that I was using a non-Apple Computer.

    I imagine a lot of things like this will happen to people with clones. An external drive won’t work, or some software won’t launch, or the system will crash, and they won’t know whether this is a problem that can be solved by Apple, Pystar, or neither. It will be frustrating.

    I imagine Windows users go through this all the time. When something doesn’t work they don’t know whether it is Microsoft’s fault, the PC manufacturer’s fault, or maybe the company that built that particular piece of software.

    Actually, I’ve run across this before with PC games. The computer, the operating system, the game, the video drivers, and perhaps other drivers as well, were all made by different companies. So what do you do when the game suddenly crashes? All you can do is hope that somebody else has had the same problem, has figured it out, and has posted a fix.

    I’d imagine the success of the Pystar computer will hinge on good support forums. If Pystar users stick together and help each other, they can make the experience tolerable enough to be worthwhile. That is, of course, if Apple doesn’t step in and stop Pystar before it’s too far off the ground. Either way, I’ll stick with my Apple made Mac.

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MacMost Now 77: Leopard Screen Sharing

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:02:58 +0000

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at screen sharing in Leopard: how to set it up and some uses.

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What Is My IP Address?

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:50:47 +0000

    Sometimes it is useful to know what IP address you appear to have to the outside world. For instance, to use Leopard screen sharing, you usually need to know the IP address of the machine you wish to connect to. Or, someone may restrict access to a Web site or file sharing service to only a small list of IP addresses, and you need to tell them your IP in order from them to add you to the list.

    You can sometimes find this by going to your System Preferences, Network settings and looking at your status. But it may show you the IP address on your local network, which may start with a 10.0 or a 192.168. This won’t help a computer from the outside world know where you are.

    But when you surf the Web, every Web server and page knows what IP address you have. So all you need to do is go to a Web page like this one, and it will tell you:

    Your IP Address is:

38.103.63.16

You can bookmark this page to use in situations where you need to quickly figure out your IP address.

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MacMost Now 76: Bunch of iPhone Tips

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:15:02 +0000

Gary Rosenzweig lists his favorite iPhone tips, including some typing and browsing tips. You also check out MacMost.com for free iPhone ringtones, iPhone games, and a guide to the iPhone.

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MacMost Now 75: Wide Dock Stats Lyrics

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:10:49 +0000

Gary Rosenzweig answers some viewer mail: What is a good way to view system stats? How to automatically download lyrics? How to add the Applications Folder folder to the Dock? How to view widescreen videos on an iPod?

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Geek Girl TV #57: Air Fish Penny Heroes

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:08:55 +0000

Geek Girl Eve Park is back for season three. She talks about her new MacBook Air, Macquariums, Penny Arcade starts twittering and live video streaming, and the 1337ors.

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MacMost Now 74: New iMacs Today

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:26:49 +0000

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at the new iMac configurations released by Apple today.

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MacMost Now 73: Ten iPod Uses Other Than Playing Music

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:39:10 +0000

Gary Rosenzweig looks at 10 things you can do with your standard 5G, 5.5G or iPod Classic other than playing music.

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