Wired has a nice guide on how to burn a DVD on your Mac. It pretty much relies on www.mactheripper.org/ which I’ve mentioned here a few times before. It strips off restrictions like region encoding and other dumb stuff that companies like to force on us for no good reason.
To then copy back to disk [...]

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Keeping your Windows up to date? Good. What about all your applications?
Thought not.
Well your apps connect to the net as well and they’re as vulnerable as your OS. It’s time you updated them. How? I’m glad you asked, for Windows try FileHippo or Secunia.
Run the scanner and you get a list of all the apps [...]

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Pravane holds the claim to be the first published SteamPunk work. You can read a full review of the book here.
Comprising a cycle of linked stories set in Dorset, England, it depicts a 1968 in which the Roman Catholic Church still has supremacy; in its timeline, Protestantism was destroyed during wars that resulted from the [...]

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I knew about the memory limit in Windows XP before I went ahead and upped the memory in my Mac from 2GB to 4GB. I just knew that XP would not manage to cope with 4GB even though the limit on 32bit (standard) Windows XP is 4GB. This is because, in Microsoft’s words:
The physical address [...]

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Here’s the most popular posts on CR:
Convert MP3 to AAC
How to use the free iTunes to convert music formats.
Pin up aircraft nose art
The history and artwork of aircraft nose art.
Best tattoo ever? (NSFW)
The post that just will not die.
MacBook/Macbook Pro in Pink and Other Colours
How to have your Mac in any colour you want.
Future Warning [...]

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Remember when I wrote about this?
Well this morning I got an email that I have 10 days to download the Speed Download 5 for free. It seems that Yazsoft and Machiest have buried the hatchet, and not into each other for once.
Congratulations goes to Yazsoft who finally did the right thing. So if you bought [...]

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It’s not a ‘virus’, it’s art. It causes you Macs icons and menu bar to have gravity linked to the MacBook Pro’s motion sensor. Video is below:
In the beginning were harmless computer viruses. Viruses born out of the wit of early computer adopters, viruses whose sole purpose was to surprise and amuse. A non-destructive form [...]

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CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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