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Use Mac OS X Automator and Services To Speed Up Repetitive Tasks

Use Mac OS X Automator and Services To Speed Up Repetitive Tasks

by mitch on February 28, 2011 in Apple, Automation, Geekery, Mac OS X

Automator is one of best kept secrets in Mac OS X. Using Automator to build workflows is simple and takes little time to learn. Services are an effective way to automate repetitive tasks that save time. Make your computer work for you now by creating a few services of your own.

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Steve Jobs On Digital Rights Management (DRM)

by mitch on February 6, 2007 in Geekery, Music, Talk

Today Steve Jobs takes on the controversial topic of DRM. In a post on Apple’s website, Steve Jobs provides some background on DRM and the role it plays in Apple’s ability to offer music in the iTunes Store. He concludes by offering some compelling reasons to scrap DRM. Jobs cites figures regarding the number of [...]

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Apple On Vista’s New Security Features

by mitch on February 6, 2007 in Humor, Talk

These ads always make me laugh. This one apparantly hasn’t been released yet, but it’s making it’s way around pretty quickly. I have to admit, after using Vista a couple of times recently, this ad really hits home.

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Ed Bott on Dual-booting Macs

by mitch on April 5, 2006 in Asides, Geekery, Talk

Ed Bott weighs in on Apple’s Boot Camp announcement, and makes the case for virtualization over dual-booting in the process.

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Apple Enables Windows XP on Intel-based Mac

by mitch on April 5, 2006 in Geekery

The moment everyone has been waiting for? Apple Introduces Boot Camp. This beta offering is designed to allow Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP, and will become a feature in an upcoming OS X release. From the PR release: Apple® today introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Available [...]

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