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  • There aren’t any decent mp3 taggers

    It took me a while but I just love mp3tag on Windows to tag mp3s. The free Tritag on the Mac is Ok, but doesn’t add artwork at all. And adding artwork doesn’t really work well with iTunes, sometimes it seems to get into the MP3 and sometimes not. Even when you manually add, it…

  • What is the Apple Brick?

    The ‘Brick’ is… | 9 to 5 Mac The MacBook manufacturing process up to this point has been outsourced to Chinese or Taiwanese manufacturers like Foxconn. Now Apple is in charge. The company has spent the last few years building an entirely new manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets of water to carve the…

  • VisualHub is dead, Handbrake is the answer?

    Sad comment, Visualhub based on ffmpeg worked great. I gladly paid for it. Now, I guess its off to find another product.The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) VisualHub is gone. There are no current plans to move VisualHub to open source. The underlying engine for much of the compression magic, ffmpeg, is already open-source and present…

  • Fring lets you call from iPod Touch or iPhone over Skype

    Fring Enables VoIP Calls Over Wi-Fi for iPhone with Skype Support – Mac Rumors Can call directly using iPhone to another person with iPhone running Fring- Call MSN or Skype users that are using their computer- Call using Skype account, which allows you to have your own Skype number and at a discount rate for…

  • Puzzle’s Galore

    Well, if you like fun puzzles and word problems, a google:”word puzzles” gets you to a sea of interesting sites. I like “Puzzlersparadise.com”:http://puzzlersparadise.com for a good collection of word problems.

  • MMS from iPhone

    AppleInsider | How to send picture messages (MMS) from your iPhone to send your first iPhone MMS message. Simply select a photo from your iPhone’s Photo Album, drop it into a new email message, and address the email to your friend’s text-messaging email. Text messaging email addresses for US carriers The Xs should be replaced…

  • AutoCAD drawings

    Well, while AutoCAD costs thousands of dollars, use http://www.edrawingsviewer.com/MAC_Viewer.html to look the complete drawings on a Mac.

  • OMG was I hacked or is the hard disk just full

    Think we were hacked on Tongfamily at 5AM this morning. Found that we were stuck at the home page going to the WP install page. There are many “notes”:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/180772/page/2 about this, but it can happen because of a weak password on your FTP or your WordPress admin accounts. I have both and have changed all…

  • MMC Card vs. SDHC

    Have an old MMC card. I’m surprised for once. A SD card is the same and an old Canon SD500 takes the 1GB card but the Canon 970IS does not.