Category: Apple
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Trillix decompiles Flash
You don’t have such a need everyday of your life. However, when you need to translate a small Flash program, when you want to grab elements that the graphics design agency failed to deliver with the Flash program you got, it’s time to decompile a Flash application. And there’s a good solution: Trillix.
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Download Microsoft Office for free (on Apple Mac)
Really! Who would like to have Microsoft Office. It’s expensive. If you donwload it for free, it’s just illegal. However, you can download the excellent Neo Office for OS/X (a Mac OS/X port of OpenOffice). It’s now available.
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Mac GrandPerspective to see disk space
Some time ago, I had spoken here of SequoiaView, a Windows utility to visualize the space used by files on a hard disk drive (a great way to prepare for freeing space on a hard drive choking full of hundreds of GB of data). Today, I found a free utility doing about the same task…
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Emacs for the Aqua Mac
Aquamacs is a software program in development for two years, but the ambition is quite interesting: Integrate Emacs, the prfered text editor of Roumazeilles.net, into the Aqua environment for Mac. This is an impressive feat because they are at the opposite ends of technology: Aqua is associated to graphics elegance, subtlety and grace allied to…
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LCD display: Repair dead pixels with software
The bane of LCD displays: dead pixels. It is still very uncommon to find display manufacturers who accept to provide a garantee against dead o stuck pixels on their LCD screens. Honestly, this is bordering on abuse knowing that the main objective of the screen is to display several hundred thousands of pixels: Dead pixels…
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Mac screensavers
They are great those Futurismo Zugaousaku screensavers. This Japanese artist uses Quartz Composer to create works of art on your screen. For Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
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Extend your WiFi network, the repeater solution
The #1 problm of WiFi networks (well before the speed of data transfers)? Merely, the network range. There is always a corner of the office or of the house that is not reachable (or nearly not reachable) with your WiFi-enabled laptop: in the master’s room upstairs when the router is installed in the office downstairs,…
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Watch TV online for free
OK, I know that I don’t have TV because I don’t want to be continuously force-fed with mindless junk. However, plenty of people would like to be able to have their TV on the Internet. Up to now, you were mostly depending on your ISP and possibly some subscription additional to your basic broadband Internet…
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Mac day, today
While browsing through LifeHacker, I found this week a series of apparently interesting posts for Mac buffs. Let’s share: Top 10 Mac OS X tweaks Speed up your Mac Take screen shots on your Mac