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Time Machine Backup Trouble

If your Time Machine backup fails, try these fixes:

Capture individual frames of your movie.

Unlike QuickTime Pro 7, Apple’s new QuickTime Player 10 has lost its ability to capture and export individual movie frames. One solution is to use Google’s free Picasa After downloading, installing, and launching, Picasa will will search your hard drive for all media files, including movies. Use the sidebar (or search) to navigate to the desired movie. [...]

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Listen to your computer’s audio in another room – wirelessly

My wife and I built a new home a few years ago and included lots of low voltage wiring. This wiring provides for security, audio, video, and computer networking. The audio system I installed is pretty robust and allows for a variety of audio sources, including any of our Macintosh computers. Being able to use [...]

A Bigger Hard Drive – Free!

Use Monolingual ($free, 522 KB) to remove unwanted language resources from OS X. This can sometimes recover upwards of 200 MB of hard drive space! Some users report a 700 MB savings! ——- Update 12-6-2009, transferred to WP