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So you want to make your mac faster without buying new hardware. You want it to run fast like it used to. Everyone knows you can increase speed with some more ram or an SSD - but there are actually a ton of ways to speed up your Mac without having to spend any money! Don't give up on your slow poke Apple machine yet. This article will show you how to fix your computer by making it speedy again.
Sometimes you'll download something (perhaps via bittorrent) and find that instead of the file you wanted, your folder is full of .001 .002 .003 or .r01 .r02 .r03 files. These files are part of a split rar archive. Much like a zip file, a rar file is a compressed version of what you downloaded. Rather than be in on single file, it's spread out over these numerous files. In order to get your download, you have to extract this archive by following these steps.
The Presonus Firestudio project (and other drivers / software made by Presonus) is notoriously hard to install. If your audio hardware suddenly won't synch or gets the flashing blue and red light, you need to uninstall and reinstall the drivers - but how? While there is no official uninstall program, this article will show you how to completely clean the software and drivers out of your system.
You may have noticed your Apple Mail slowing down. It takes forever to open, load email, and even gives you the spinning pinwheel beach ball of doom. You maybe have tried deleting and pruning your email with no luck. Fear not! There's a little known way to optimize your Mail.app database so that Mail will run much faster. You don't even have to delete anything! This article will show you how to automate the process so your Mail database is automatically optimized every month - keeping your email client as fast as possible.
Safari is debatably one of the fastest browsers on the web. When you first start using it, you're typically blown away by the speed...but before long, it slows down. After prolonged use, it can even come to a complete stop! Part of the reason for this is the favicon database - a collection of tiny webpage icons. This database isn't easily cleaned and given the small size of the icons is actually pretty unnecessary. This article will show you a quick way to get your speed back by disabling the favicon database and instead loading the icons normally.
Because of Time Machine's incremental backup method, only a small amount of data needs to be sent over your network to backup to a wireless Time Machine. You can connect a disk to your router or Airport, click a few buttons and you'll have a reoccurring wireless backup system. While this generally works out very well, that initial backup to Time Machine has to copy all your files and can take forever! Even if you're connected via ethernet you'll looking at a great deal of transfer time. This little trick will make that first backup incredibly faster.
One of the reasons Apple is such a talked about company is because their Mac and iPod products are so secretive. As a general rule, no one know about their products before they're released! There is a growing underground community of follows who are becoming experts on discovering exactly what's coming next; this article is going to put you on the inside.
You want to backup, copy, export, import, or otherwise move your Safari browser's bookmarks (or history!). Even if you already use a backup solution like Time Machine, you have to know where the bookmarks and history are stored in order to do anything with them. Straight and to the point, the are the simple steps to backing up or copying your Safari bookmarks and history.
Photographs of monitors, televisions screens, and laptops has always been problematic. The screens look odd from different angles. The glow of the computer monitor has an effect on lighting. You never seem to be able to get a good focus on the image. Rather than go through great strain trying to find a setting that works for both the image on the computer and the surrounds as well, this article will show you how to do it like the pro's do: Take a picture of the object and superimpose the screen in post.
Many people are still paying cable TV, even in the digital age. Besides saving literally your entire TV cable bill every month, using digital distribution has some other great advantages. You won’t be plagued by commercials. Most content is show commercial free, but even when there are commercials they’re never more than thirty second breaks. You also have the advantage of watching what you want, when you want. You can pause it, watch more later, and pick whatever show and episode you want. You’ll be able to easily watch an entire series from start to end and enjoy it far more. This article will give you a lot of different options for watching digitally. You can find links to the various sites, devices, and other eHows mentioned in the resources section at the bottom of the page.
It seems like your Mac is always running out of space, and when it really starts getting full it can even slow down. If you're like most people, you start having to make hard decisions about which files you really need and which you can delete. While advancements like Time Machine have made that decision a little easier, there are other options. This article will give you the top five ways to reclaim space on your Mac. Some software will be required . . . you can find it at the resources link below.
When you watch a digital film on your computer, you may find a subtitle file included alongside the movie file. The subtitle may have the extention .srt, .sub or .idx. This method of subtitling a film leaves the text in a separate file outside of the actual movie. If you want to watch the movie on a device that doesn't support this kind of file (standard Quicktime, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, Xbox, etc) you need to hardcode the subtitle so it's imbedded in the movie file. If none of that made any sense to you, that's ok too - this article will show you how to permanently slap that subtitle onto your movie file.
One of the best features of the Xbox 360 is it's ability to stream content from your computer to the console. Any Windows PC on the network can play movies, music, and tv shows over a network and on to your TV. Thanks to some great software, you can do this on your Mac as well - and it's actually fairly easy
One of the many myths about Apple's Macintosh computers is that they're expensive. While going out and picking up your average Mac from the Apple store is probably more expensive than finding a bargain at Best Buy, that doesn't mean there aren't cheaper Apple computers to be found. I recently bought a Macbook for $450. After $100 worth of upgrades, it runs faster than anything I've ever used. I'm going to give you some tips for finding a quality Mac desktop or laptop for only a few hundred dollars.
Microsoft recently announced POP3 support for Hotmail and Windows Live Mail. This addition gives users the ability to access their email accounts from various desktop and mobile clients. More importantly for you, this also means you can read and send Hotmail and Live Mail on your iPhone. Follow these steps and you'll be ready to go in no time.
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