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Mac Discoveries by Allen Watson

Access Bookmarks for Multiple Browsers
AllBookmarks adds a new item to your Mac OS X menu bar giving you quick access to all your bookmarks. All your Safari, Firefox and Flock bookmarks are shown and can be selected. AllBookmarks also gives you accesses to your 1Password 1Click bookmarks so you can navigate to a page, fill the form, and submit it, all with a single click!The best part is, this program is free! You can download it here:Download AllBookmarks

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Download YouTube videos to your desktop
Here's an easy way to download a YouTube video to your local hard drive.... From YouTube, copy the link of the video you want to keep.

Mac Love, Not War

Useful and Free Online Tools for Groups and Business
When I first started as a full-time consultant in 1998, it was a pretty neat trick for most people to learn they could connect two or three computers together to share a single printer or plug in to this odd thing called the Internet through a special telephone modem. Today,...

Geeks R Us » Macintosh

Time Capsule Bonjour issue
Last week Apple gave me a Time Capsule because of all of the problems I had with my Mac. That was awesome of them! My network at home consisted of an Airport Extreme as my router and 802.11n wireless access point, with a Linksys acting in bridge mode and a 802.11g wireless access point. I did this because separating the N and G devices makes the N network much, much faster. I decided I would make the new Time Capsule my router, as it also has gigabit ethernet, and replace the Linksys with my current Airport Extreme. Thus the process would be: Migrate the Airport Extreme to bridge mode Change the Airport Extreme to 802.11n (2.4ghz) Change the Airport Extreme SSID to the 802.11g SSID Set up the Time Capsule with the old Airport Extreme settings Steps 1-3 went fine. When I installed the Time Capsule it said “Hey! Do you want to replace an existing device?” and I answered “Yes!” and chose my old Airport Extreme settings from the list. I then renamed the Device to “Time After Time” (clever, eh?) and was up and running! Or so I thought. Throughout the week, my backups were slow, my network was acting funny, all sorts of weird issues. At first I thought it might be that the Time Capsule disk had spaces in the name, which unix does not like, so I renamed the disk using Airport Utility via the Disks panel. That did not help, then on the Time Capsule tab I discovered one major issue: The bonjour name (shown here correctly) had been copied from the Airport Extreme and worse, not changed when I changed the Time Capsule name. The Airport Extreme was still in use, so there were two devices on the network with the same bonjour name. I clicked the Edit… button and changed the bonjour name to timeaftertime.local. Since then, things have been much, much smoother. Be careful when you let Apple make things easy for you!

Charles DeVore's Weblog

For those of you using a MacBook Pro and a second monitor attached keep this in mind. There is a known bug that when you close the lid of the MacBook Pro it forgets about the monitor on your computer. Now this only effects people using an external keyboard and mouse with the lid closed while using the external monitor. When you open the lid back up it will not light up again until you go to the monitors control panel on the external monitor and tell it to look for other monitors (detect displays). At that point the internal monitor will light up and you will be able to use it again. This happens under 10.5.2 according to Apple, but I have seen it under 10.5.1 also «details»

Search Engine Optimizician

Google?s New Search-based Keyword Tool
Add Another Weapon to Your Keyword Research Arsenal Google’s Search-based Keyword Tool (beta) will give you a better sense of what your potential customers are searching for and which keywords Google sees as being relative to your website. When coupled with a keyword research tool…