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Growl for Mac keeps you notified

Growl for Mac keeps you notified

Growl for Mac notifies you when friends come online, files finish downloading and several other tasks, without you ever having to leave the program.

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iTunes mobile media syncing: Unlock and load

iTunes mobile media syncing: Unlock and load

DoubleTwist converts iTunes tracks to MP3 and then syncs them to mobile phones and media.

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Learn to rock with GarageBand

Learn to rock with GarageBand

Step-by-step instructions on setting up your own home recording studio.

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Fun with the Mac motion sensor

Fun with the Mac motion sensor

Liquidmac uses the Sudden Motion Sensor function of your laptop to fill the screen with simulated liquid.

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How to rip audio from concert DVDs

How to rip audio from concert DVDs

There are many ways to rip audio from a live concert DVD so you can listen to the songs on your iPod, but here are two that are free and both Mac and PC compatible.

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Moving your iTunes library from PC to Mac

Moving your iTunes library from PC to Mac

Here's a relatively painless method to bring your iTunes library with you when you switch from PC to Mac.

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The ultimate guide to Mac keyboard shortcuts

The ultimate guide to Mac keyboard shortcuts

This guide shows all the tricks to let your fingers do the walking around your Mac.

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Web albums made easy

Web albums made easy

JAlbum helps you make snazzy photo albums from pre-made templates, giving you a professional-looking album in just a few clicks.

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Make flawless screencasts on your Mac

Make flawless screencasts on your Mac

ScreenFlow software makes it easy to capture all the action that takes place on your desktop so you can view it as a movie.

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Newton-style handwriting recognition on the iPhone

Newton-style handwriting recognition on the iPhone

This unofficial third-party app for the iPhone can recognise handwriting and turn it into typed text.

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How-to: Find local Twitters on your iPhone

How-to: Find local Twitters on your iPhone

Twinkler, a new application available for jailbroken iPhones allows users to locate friends on Twitter.

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How-to: Re-skin your Gmail inbox

How-to: Re-skin your Gmail inbox

Stylish, a Firefox extension enables visual changes to Web sites, is one of the cooler Gmail re-skin jobs we've seen.

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How-to: Control music from the Mac menu bar

How-to: Control music from the Mac menu bar

Grab this app that puts iTunes controls in the menu bar and lets you use hot keys to control your music.

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Quick Tip: Forwarding X11 to OS X

Quick Tip: Forwarding X11 to OS X

Just because you are on a Mac doesn't mean you can't run your Linux applications. Here's how you can bring penguin power to your Mac.

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How-to: Install iPhone OS 2.0 (and why you shouldn't)

How-to: Install iPhone OS 2.0 (and why you shouldn't)

Pwnage, a tool released earlier this week by the iPhone Dev team for Mac OS X (Windows edition coming soon), is an amazing piece of work.

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