Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - Page 2
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Apple Consultants Network Offers Business Support For Macs

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“It just works” rants aside, one of the limitations of adopting Macs in a business environment is a smaller pool of integrators and consultants to work with. Apple’s newly-rolled-out Consultant network site tries to address that issue.


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Quickly Backup Your Firefox Profile With about:support

Navigating to the directory where Firefox stores your profile has always been a bit of a pain, but the recent release of Firefox 3.6 makes finding that folder — and from there backing up your bookmarks, extensions or entire profile — a breeze.


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Google Wave In Action: Real-World Use Case Studies

A week ago we asked readers to tell us how they’re using Google Wave in their daily lives, and despite a bit of “ha! no one’s using Wave!” snarking on the Twitter, we got lots of interesting responses.


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PwnageTool 3.1.5 Jailbreaks iPhone 3.1.3

Mac OS X: Last week Apple pushed out a minor update to the iPhone OS, and, naturally, the update re-jailed any jailbroken devices. Yet again, the iPhone dev-team is back with a new version of PwnageTool that’s compatible with the latest update.


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Google Adding Social Feature To Gmail?

Google may unveil a new social feature to Gmail as early as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal. The feature would closely mimic status updates like those popularised by Facebook and Twitter, and while Google hasn’t confirmed anything at this point, we’d guess such a feature would also tightly integrate with your Google Profile — in much the same way as they used Google Profiles to integrate your friends’ social content in your search results.


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How To Separate Stuck Drinking Glasses

If you dumped all your glassware into a sink full of water last night and went to bed, you might find some of the glasses nested tightly together the next morning. Here’s how to get them unstuck without breakage.


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Modified Tab Ordering Enables Firefox-Like Tabs In Chrome

Google Chrome: If you’ve recently moved from Firefox to Chrome, you probably miss the way that Firefox orders tabs. This small Google Chrome extension switches the tab ordering in Chrome to mimic how Firefox handles new tabs.


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The Complete Guide To Windows System Restore

Most of us remember Windows System Restore as a lame-duck feature from Windows XP; when it seemed we might benefit from using it, it never quite worked how we expected. That’s no longer the case.


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Stave Off Snacking By Brushing Your Teeth After Meals

Many people working on getting in shape find that they frequently crave food in between meals, if you’re trying to cut down on your in-between snacking, these simple deterrents can help.


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Data Crow Is A Cross-Platform Manager Of All Your Media

Windows/Mac/Linux (Java): Data Crow doesn’t just catalogue your movies with IMDB look-ups, organise your MP3s and CDs with discographies, or handle pictures. It handles all three, plus contacts, software, books and much more, and runs on any system.