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turn your netbook into a mac?

Netbooks seem to be the new craziness in technology these days, stores everywhere are selling them, manufacters have upgraded the offer to almost every color, shape, configuration and size available and portable bandwidth is also contribuiting for more ubuiquity. Apple’s own solution to the ultimate portable machine is still the Macbook Air, which some people [...]

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Fluid on Mac

If you’re a Mac user and an avid consumer of web applications (Flickr, Delicious, Basecamp, Netvibes, Gmail, etc, just to name a few) then you’ll problably be happy to install Fluid. Fluid is a small application for the Mac which enables you to create Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) for your most used web applications. That [...]

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quick tip: send emails on mac

For some reason my local Ruby on Rails applications weren’t sendingĀ  e-mails, so I found out that all you need is to write the following on terminal: sudo postfix start And that’s it, now I can send emails from applications running on my Mac. Nice!

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what’s in your dock or sidebar?

So, my question for today is: What applications do you keep on your dock/sidebar? Which essential applications do you use daily? The following is part of my dock: Finder Mail (although I still prefer the Google Mail look and feel) DashBoard Firefox (has all my essential development plugins) Safari (faster browsing) iTunes MAMP (very easy [...]

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new Xbox 360 Dashboard

Microsoft revealed the new and revamped UI for the X-Box 360 last week on E3 and it was about time. The current dashboard although not being too bad, has a few problems which sucessive update haven’t fixed, such asĀ  too much information on screen, a bit of lag, hard to navigate in so much content [...]

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