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Cyberduck FTP Transfer Software (Mac only)

I’ve been blogging for more than two years now, while lately the tools of the trade have gotten better than ever before, it wasn’t always like this. Cyberduck is a piece of software (only for Mac OS X) that allows you to transfer files via FTP to and from a webhost, this is not the only use this software have, let’s take a look at some of the features I use the most. Installing Cyberduck is as easy as you can imagine, just download the files from cyberduck.ch, and drag … Continue reading

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X11 Updated to 2.1.3

For those of you that like to be up-to-date on all you Mac OS X components, the open-source project X11 got updated to version 2.1.3 on January 18, 2008. Generally, the community submits this updates and only when Apple has tested them is when they become available on your software update application. Before I continue, I’m including a shortcut from an entry in Wikipedia that explains what X11 is all about. Remember that Wikipedia is a user generated content place and may contain inaccurate information, what I read from the article looks … Continue reading

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Anxiety.app Trashed My Mail.app

Anxiety is an application for Mac OS X Leopard that allows you to sync To-Do created between Mail.app and iCal.app, as well as create To-Do’s from the application. I downloaded Anxiety yesterday afternoon when I got back from work, immediately started playing with it but before creating To-Do’s in my Mail.app or iCal.app I went directly into Anxiety and created two entries. This was the beginning of the end, Mail.app would not respond and crashed about four times before I started reading my error logs. The error was the same … Continue reading

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Finder Navigation Tips

It’s amazing the hundreds of hidden feature you can find within OS X, today I was listening to the Typical Mac User and while Victor was giving us great tips on how to use Finder more effectively. He started talking about the very top of the Finder window, right where the name of the folder is displayed whenever you open your Finder. Read and learn this is awesome. If you click on that top section of the screen where the name of the folder winder is, while holding Control key … Continue reading

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Microsoft Zune Updates

What was running around as rumors became a reality, Microsoft has released photos and specs for their new Zune lineup that will be release sometime in November 2007. The new Zune lineup has an 80GB model called the Zune 80, and two flash models sporting 4 and 8GB of storage. The company gave no indication of discontinuing the 30GB, 1st generation model, instead the new updated UI (user interface) will be added via update software to the old Zune. If you ask me Microsoft is up to something, the new … Continue reading

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