June 12th, 2009

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Change Your Display’s Gamma to Match Snow Leopard

One of the smaller refinements included with Snow Leopard will be the changing of the default gamma level from 1.8 to 2.2, which is the default for TVs and the current standard for Windows. Gamma affects the contrast on your screen; a higher level means higher contrast. To get the higher gamma level in Leopard, […]

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June 6th, 2009

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Sync Nearly Any Device With iTunes

A while back, Richard wrote a post about Syncing your Sansa Fuze with iTunes. While the post did help a lot of people, it required running a script and became quite problematic for some. The purpose of the post was to help out a select number of people who had the Sansa Fuze, but still […]

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June 5th, 2009

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Resizing HFS+ Partitions

Most everyone, including yours truly, has at some point needed to resize partitions or make new ones. Unfortunately, dare I say it, unlike Windows, OS X does not have any built in tools to edit the partitions. I will admit that that isn’t necessarily true because you can erase and reformat current partitions but, like […]

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May 20th, 2009

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Dumb Teenager Runs in Traffic to Save her iPod

You know, I’d kick some major ass if someone tried to steal my iPod, but I would never jump in front of a pickup truck for it like a 16-year-old from Tampa, Florida did today. The girl had dropped her iPod in the street and was hit by the pickup when she tried to retrieve […]

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May 16th, 2009

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Booting Ubuntu Linux with the Chameleon bootloader

***Credit goes out to RCC2k7 over Ubuntu Forums. He wrote the instructions; I just made them easy to find.*** Ubuntu and Chameleon: wouldn’t it be great if they got along? You could completely ditch Windows and simply run Linux and Mac OS X. By default, you are unable to do so.  The issue lies with […]

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