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Save Space -- Make Your Mac Monolingual
digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/01/18/save-space-make-your-mac-monolingual/'; By default, Macs come loaded to the gills with language files for the operating system, printer drivers and such, as well as all of the iApps (iTunes, iPhoto, ... Read more →
Download Flash Videos for Free
2 months ago on SwitchedWhile it won't work for all Flash videos (such as those from Hulu.com), the site vixy.net lets you quickly and freely download non-DRMed video from sources like YouTube. You can then easily upload the files to a phone or portable media player (e.g., ...
Swap HD-DVDs for Blu-ray
2 months ago on SwitchedIf you ended up on the losing side of the great HD media wars, then you may have a few obsolete HD-DVD titles sitting on your shelf as a depressing reminder of the perils of being an early adopter. If some of those happen to be Warner Bros. titles, ...
Save Space by Putting iTunes on an External Drive
2 months ago on SwitchedIf you've started to run out of space on your internal hard drive, or just want the option of taking your entire iTunes library with you between computers, here's how to move your music, TV shows, movies, and the rest to an external hard drive. ...
Quickly Define or Spell-check Words on a Mac
2 months ago on SwitchedAmong the many "secret" keyboard shortcuts on a Mac are a couple that are a boon to the spelling-challenged. To quickly spell-check a word you're typing, begin typing the word and then hit Option+Esc. A list of words will pop up, a la your cell ...
Make Free iPhone Ringtones Using iTunes
2 months ago on SwitchedWhile Apple would prefer that you buy ringtone versions of music you've already purchased, you can still make ringtones for your iPhone using only iTunes and songs that don't have DRM (such as the ones you've ripped from your old CDs). Here's how: ...
How to Really, Truly Uninstall Old Programs
2 months ago on SwitchedYou'd think uninstalling applications, games, and the rest would be as simple as dumping the icon into the recycling bin, but the truth is that computer programs distribute their files all over your PC. While that may not seem like a big deal, ...
Get HD for Free
2 months ago on SwitchedAll of the major TV networks currently broadcast HD video over the air and in better quality than what you likely receive from your cable/satellite company. And despite any techno-babble you may read, you can receive HD television signals over the ...
Quickly Switch Apps on a Palm Pre
2 months ago on SwitchedRather than opening your Palm Pre's Card View function to sort through all of your open apps, you can simply swipe back and forth between running apps. Go to the Launcher and select Screen & Lock. Under the heading 'Advanced Gestures,' slide ...
Keep Two Computers Synced
2 months ago on SwitchedKeep all of your photo, video, audio, and data files up-to-date between your laptop and desktop by using syncing software. If you have a Windows PC, SyncBack is a freeware backup utility that lets you merge or overwrite data between two sources. ...
Download YouTube Videos to Your iPod
2 months ago on SwitchedDownload YouTube, and similarly Flash-based, videos for use on your iPod. Using Firefox, install the free VideoDownloader extension. Then download and install the free Perian codec for Quicktime from Perian.org. Videos ending in .flv will download ...
Turn Pesky PDFs Into Word Docs
2 months ago on SwitchedBelieve it or not, you can take the pain-in-the-ass out of PDFs. Though most PDFs can't be edited, there is one freebie workaround if you're in a pinch. Go to pdftoword.com, upload your PDF, and enter the format to which you'd like it converted. ...
Turn Off Pesky Tool Tips
2 months ago on SwitchedPut an end to those nagging yellow Tool Tip boxes that pop up whenever you hover over a hyperlink in your browser. Mac OS X Tips revealed this godsend for Mac users: Close Safari, then open Terminal (in Utilities) and type: defaults ...
Swap Dead-Tree Catalogs for iCatalogs
2 months ago on SwitchedEarn the gratitude of pine forests and beleaguered postal carriers the world over by signing up to receive electronic catalogs instead of paper ones. CatalogChoice.org is a godsend in that you can quickly and easily sign up. When you enter the ...
Load Your iPhone With Your Favorite Files
2 months ago on SwitchedOther than jailbreaking it or using e-mail, the iPhone offers no built-in way to accept non-media files, even ones that it's able to display (like PDFs and Office files, among others). There are a few iPhone apps, however, that help. AirSharing is ...
Fix That Burned-In Image on Your Plasma TV
3 months ago on SwitchedIf your plasma HDTV has burn-in -- a permanent image on the screen that won't fade -- all is not lost. Unplug your video source, turn on the TV so that "snow" (or fuzz) appears, leave it on for 15 minutes, and then plug in your video source to see ...


