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If you’ve had the chance to play around with Apple’s new iLife ‘09, you no doubtedly have encountered some pleasant surprises with the updated iPhoto. No, I’m not talking about the useful geo-tagging or the integration with Flickr and social-media heavyweight Facebook… I’m referring to iPhoto’s amazing facial recognition which uncovers subtle things that make [...]

Sure, there have been many tutorials done about how to replace the memory chips in Macs but doggone it, I just had to make one myself. This one is custom-tailored for the IT staff at the public agency where I work to demonstrate how simple the procedure is. Don’t worry guys, it’s a piece of [...]

Yeah, well you can’t blame them of course… after all, they’re just the spokespersons for the industry, the tech know-it-alls right? In this video, Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian gets schooled by a system administrator at CNBC while getting a tour of the media giant’s 15 terabyte Apple Xserve RAID/Xsan setup. Makes you wonder if these writers [...]

Apple has added the open source Xvid codec to its list of QuickTime components on Apple.com… maybe now Xvid will finally make it into iTunes and the AppleTV. read more | digg story

Apparently on Mac OS X 10.4.7 (and earlier), the zcat command doesn’t work. zcat is a very useful util to read through gzip-archived system logs and usually works by just typing zcat /path/to/log.gz However, it appears to be broken on the Mac. For example, this is actual output: [user@host:~] zcat /var/log/system.log.0.gz zcat: /var/log/system.log.0.gz.Z: No such file or directory [user@host:~] [...]