Apr 20th, 2008 | Macintosh | No Comments
Often larger image on any webpage or a blog makes the webpage to load slowly. On a slower network or hosting it may take ages to load which annoys the user or reader at times. The response time of any webpage depends on the page size which in turn depends on the number of images and size of images in the page. As the the size of the image increases along with the the number, it makes things horrible. Often publishers take considerable time to resize the image to make it ready for the web. Some of the tools available to do this job are not free. Today we are going to discuss about a JPEG resize tool for Mac called SmallImage2.
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Apr 9th, 2008 | Macintosh | No Comments
Months back I switched from Windows to MAC. I have used MAC during my college days and I am quite comfortable with browsing through the system but not completely. I initally had MAC OS X Tiger and later I upgraded the same to Lepoard. When I slowly started using MAC, the first problem I faced is reading and writing NTFS drives and second problem is reading and writting to my MAC drive from my bootcamp windows. Here I want to discuss about some the best tools from my point of view when you use windows in Macbook
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Apr 6th, 2008 | Macintosh | 2 Comments
Gone are the days when people use text editors just for editing and saving plain text documents. Nowadays we can see multi-purpose text editors that can be used for text editing, web programming and script writing etc. For Macintosh operating system we cannot find much of very good open source text editors like what we have for windows. In this article we are going to see one such open source text editor for Mac called Smultron.
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Mar 29th, 2008 | Macintosh | No Comments
Image sharing has now become an integral part of social networking and file sharing concepts. Everybody knows there are hell a lot of sites and desktop tools are there to do the job for windows. Today we are going to disucss one such tool for Macintosh. The tool is called Skitch, which is still in beta can be used to capture anything in the screen, do a sketch of your own quickly resize, edit, crop or do whatever you want and the picture can be uploaded to your online skitch, flickr or your .MAC Account by a single click.
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Mar 22nd, 2008 | Macintosh | No Comments
Backup of softwares or data is very essential nowadays and most of the times it is a very complicated process and may need a professional assistance. Gone are the days where backups were made in tape drives, floppy, CD or DVD. I believe Apple is the only operating system that comes with an efficient backup utility which is very handy. Apple OS X 10.5 provides a simple and powerful utility called Time Machine. What makes time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on a given day — so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past. All you need is just connect an external hard-drive and use
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