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Dictionary Cleaner

Simple, easy to use interface to view, add, and delete your learned spellings (Mac OS X 10.5 or later).

Weather Underground has a new Weather Widget for you.

The new official Weather Underground weather widget for Mac OS X lets you select the Wunderground station you want to recieve your weather reports from.

System Requirements: Mac OS X Tiger or later.

Sudoku Puzzles from Australia - New Easy, Medium, Hard, and Tough Puzzles Daily

(Plus puzzle archives dating back to 2005)

File Juicer

..Extracts/recovers images, video, audio and text from files, folders, flash cards and iPods.
File Juicer will extract images from PDF, PowerPoint, Excel or Word just as it will extract them from flash
cards. It considers all files as the peel of an orange which can be removed and the contents extracted. - Free trial available.

TigerLaunch - Menu Bar Appllication Launcher

TigerLaunch puts a menu in your menubar that lists your applications in alphabetical order. This way you can make your Dock more useful by removing apps you don't launch as often. You can easily configure TigerLaunch, tell it which applications to exclude from its menu.

(TigerLaunch works with all versions of Mac OS X))

Reviews of New and Discontinued Digital Cameras

Jigsaw Puzzles online

Free online jigsaw puzzles. 3 new puzzles daily. Play online for free with our great puzzle player.

GameHouse

GameHouse is a place on the web to Download Games and play Free Online Games. We've got Puzzle Games like Collapse and Bounce Out, Word Games like TextTwist and WHATword, Jigsaw Puzzles, Arcade Games and more. GameHouse is the Home of Great Games!

FREE Play - Online Game

Downloadable games - 60 minutes tryouts.

Hoyle Casino 2008 for OS X - Release date 2008-04-22

 Hoyle Casino, the best-selling casino game of all time, offers excitement and challenge with over 600 variations of 16 of the most popular casino games - Macintosh OS X 10.4.10 or later Required.


DOWNLOAD AND PLAY THE DEMO BEFORE PURCHASE!

Download size 440 M- Estimated download time: Cable/DSL: 42 minutes, Dial-up: 18h 46 minutes

Leopard Quick Tips of the Week and more

Singular

Singular helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your Mac. Drop files & folders on its window or its Dock icon, choose files with the open panel, it makes no difference: it finds duplicate files, shows you the results and lets you move them to the Trash just in a click of the mouse. - Shareware

"The Missing Manual for Leopard" by David Pogue - "Take Control" eBooks by Joe Kissell

The above books for Leopard have been recommended by HIDACC Members... However we feel it best for you to examine the Missing Manual book at your local bookstore and the Take Control eBooks online before making a purchase.

Also remember Apple has included great HELP files for its systems and programs that are accessible by clicking on the word HELP in the menu bar.

iText Express

The FREE iText Express blends seamlessly into the OS X environment, and will continue to grow with the power of Mac OS X. iText Express perfectly covers every feature of TextEdit basics with Microsoft Word compatibility as well. iText Express allows page margins to be set less than 1".

The following pages might give you points to debate with your PC owning friends..

Comparing prices: Mac Pro versus PCs

Apple thrashes Dell on Mac Pro pricing

.Mac photo pages and iPhoto 6

MediaCentral 2.0 - Softdrinks and Popcorn not Included.

MediaCentral turns your Mac into the ultimate home theater system. With support for numerous audio, video, IP TV, TV, IP Radio, Games and multimedia formats, MediaCentral brings it all together at the push of a button.

An older free version of MediaCentral is still avalable but is no onger supported by Equinux

Free WIFI Spots

For those of you who travel with a laptop computer, the above page will let you find you' find cafes, restaurants, coffeeshops, libraries, downtown business districts, malls, stores, laundramats, auto repair shops, RV parks, airports, Hotels, vacation rental properties, etc. that provide FREE wireless internet connections to guests, customers and/or the general public.

Cutomizing Toolbars

This isn't really a discovery but something I thought you might not know about... You can customize the Finder Toolbar as well as some application toolbars, such as the Mail, and the Address Book... Toolbars at the top of a window help you perform certain tasks quickly by just clicking the appropriate icon in the toolbar. ---- Instruction for Customizing Toolbars can be found by clicking on the Desktop, then on Help in the Finder's menu bar. Select Mac Help and type in "CustomizeToolbar" in the search window.

If you are using Tiger, select "Index" and then try clicking your way though the alphabet. You will be suprised at what other help is available right in your Macintosh. If you are using Panther just click on the many items you see listed.

BatChmod

BatChmod is a Cocoa utility written by Renaud Boisjoly for manipulating file and folder privileges in Mac OS X.
It allows the manipulation of ownership as well as the privileges associated to the Owner, Group or others.. - BatChmod also forces Emptying Trash from it's dock icon....

( Be sure to read the warning about not changing system files on the page )

One of Apple's best-kept secrets

is that it is both possible & simple to create additional iPhoto Libraries. when using iPhoto v5.0 and later.

To do so: Hold down the OPTION key as you open the iPhoto program. A dialogue box will come up offering three choices: QUIT or CREATE LIBRARY or CHOOSE LIBRARY. (The original iPhoto Library is in your Users/Picture folder)..

NOTE of CAUTION: If one decides to remove image files from an existing single iPhoto Library, one must EXPORT these image files to the HD or desktop and then drag them to the new Library window. This will retain the true image file dates. The files will be assigned the current date, if the same files are merely dragged directly to the new Library window.

These additional libraries avoid the necessity of having all iPhoto image files in a single Library. They can be used as a sort of super-album-like device to aid in the organization of one's photo image files.

It would be wise to make a back up of your iPhoto library before moving your older photos to a new library.. .

Tiger's Address Book v4.0.3 and later will now print envelopes. 

Tigers new Address Book will not only print single envelopes using an address in your Address Book, but it will let you print out any group of envelopes to mail to individual addresses with just a click of the mouse button. Besides printing on standard size envelopes, the Address Book even lets you set custom sizes for the non-standard envelopes you may want to use.

Overstuffed Mailbox

Do you have a lot of stuff in your mailbox? Never clean it out? Well, if you leave too much stuff in there you might find yourself saying, "My stuff! it's..., GONE!

Don't worry, all those things you had in Mail are not history. Your email messages haven't really gone anywhere.. Apple explains this for you...

Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 Mail: Overstuffed mailbox

Tiger's New Address Book Can Now Print Envelopes

Tigers new Address Book will not only print single envelopes using an address in your Address Book, but it will let you print out any group of envelopes to mail to individual addresses with just a click of the mouse button. Besides printing on standard size envelopes, the Address Book even lets you set custom sizes for the non-standard envelopes you may want to use.

The Mad, Mad World of Pixels Per Inch (PPI)

"The Resolution's Too Low"

A Short Course in Pixels Displaying, Printing and Scannng digital Images

The Short Course Publishing Company

Google Earth

Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

A new PEOPLE Widget is installed when the 10.4.4 system is installed.

This widget quickly lets you quickly find addresses and telephone numbers, but it does even more. It will actually bring up a map of an address by just clicking on the address itself in the widget window. Apple has set this widget to use MapQuest maps but should you desire to have the PEOPLE widget bring up Google maps instead, visit the following site for instructions..

Use Google Maps with People widget

Send Free Card from Apple's iCards

( Membership not required unless you choose to customize cards)

Broadband for everyone. - Can it be true?

Broadband Over Power Lines Debuts in D.C. Suburb

Digital Cameras Hints, Tips & Tricks Workshop

Listen to Radio Broadcasts from around the world that play in iTunes

ShoutCast by Nulsoft - Streaming Technology

Remember the Old Time Radio shows you used to listen to before TV arrived, Jack Benny, Roy Rodgers, The Lux Theater and more. You can hear them once again at the

Radio Memories Network

Mac OS X Mail Tips, Tricks and Secrets

A SanDisk's SD Plus card with a twist

This is a Brilliant New Memory Card according to David Pogue.

Top 7 Tips for Wireless Home Network Security

Recommendations on this page summarize the steps you should take, in order of importance, to improve the security of your home wireless LAN.

iPhoto 5.0 Tutorial

This tutorial from Apple consists of 11 pages of instruction for using the new iPhoto 5.0 program. Each page (2 thru 11) covers a different subject with a Movie, Tips, and Step by Step Instructions. (click the learn more button for the step by step instructions).

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