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List of Netbooks compatible with Mac OS X

If you’re thinking of buying a NETBOOK this Christmas and I want to do a bit of tinkering and installing the Hackintosh, the illegal version of Mac OS X running on P2P networks, you should take a look at the list of people posting on BoingBoing, where they gather incompatibilities with various models of Apple’s operating system.

At the end of the article from the source in English you’ll find a series of tutorials and guides for installation in the various models of netbooks appearing on the list that you show in the extended entry. More »

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WordPress Notifier available for Mac OS X

WodrPress Notifier is a small free application launched by the WordPress team tells us that the new comments on our blog.

Like Google Gmail Notifier or alternative Notifr we Salva said Castro, conducts periodic checks at intervals of time that we establish as we wish. Thereby avoiding having to enter repeatedly to see if there are new comments. It is installed in the menu bar and integration with Growler.

While it is true that we can configure our blog with WordPress to send a mail with every new comment that solution does not strike me as bad as it avoids over-mails. Something that will value those who receive many daily.

WordPress Notifier is a universal binary and runs on both Mac OS X 10.4 and Leopard, but requires version 2.7 or higher for WordPress but you can not make use of it. It also works on blogs hosted on wordpress.com and promises to future developments such as the elimination of spam, comments and reply directly supports several blogs.

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Smart Folders, how to work with them in Mac OS X

Mac OS X is an operating system that has been designed with the goal to be as easy and productive for the user. Often, users of Mac we stayed at a somewhat superficial level of our system, where it has some very interesting features that we can exploit to our daily lives with him.

One of these features, found in Mac OS X version from the Tiger, is the use of “smart folders”. Explained in a very fast, using an analogy well known by all, we could say that the smart folders in the Finder are what the “smart playlists” are on iTunes.

These are special folders that act as “filters” to conditions specified by the user. Actually, these folders do not contain any files “physically” but are merely recipients of the outcome of the filter applied to them. More »

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Moving files on Mac OS X correctly

One of the “Top 10″ in recurring themes that people often ask when it lands for the first time on Mac OS X is: “How do I move files from one place to another without having to copy, paste and delete the original?”.

Is for whatever reason, menus edition of our operating system lacks the item “Move” or “Move”, and I think that has not been much talk about it, so people tend to think that on the Mac, things can not move, as is done in other systems.

In this post, especially geared for Switchers (and some veteran confused), we will see how to move files from the simplest way possible. The basics you need to know is that to do so, we must press the “cmd” (which was formerly the “Manzanita”) before clicking a file. More »

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Snow Leopard could emerge from the first quarter 2009

And finally, if the next Mac OS X, aka Snow Leopard, arrived during the first quarter 2009? If that were the case, Apple would be in advance, but would follow the current trend is to give a date “pessimistic” and create the surprise by arriving early.

Snow Leopard is the next operating system from Apple. Unlike previous iterations of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard is a very special, because it is a still image and examines its own foundations. As a result, compatibility with the PowerPC code disappears and the system becomes fully optimized for Intel architecture. This is essential but it is accompanied by many other changes and improvements. More »

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