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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:24 AM

Back to the dark side of the Mac on this episode of The Mac Attack - Backing up your DVDs, bittorrent, file sharing & usenet news groups.

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Mac the Ripper

DVD Remaster

DVD2One

Handbrake

How to Rip DVD Movies on the Mac with HandBrake

Visual Hub
(I mistakenly refer to VisualHub as video hub during the show. Sorry for the confusion.)

videohelp.com

Transmission

XTorrent

Azureus

official BitTorrent Web site

Acquisition

LimeWire

Acqlite

UnRarX Expander

Unison

MT NewsWatcher

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Direct download: TMA_90.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:42 PM

Listener emails on this episode of The Mac Attack - Questions about Disk Warrior, Is it safe yet to upgrade to Leopard, writing applications for the Mac, Apple consulting, Mac OS X online training, questions about Mac maintenance, video playback, setting default mail app & web browsers and more....

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DiskWarrior

Apple Developers Connection

Apple Training (certifications)

Safari Online Bookstore

Lynda training online

SuperDuper!

Perian

App Update widget

Lynda training online

Mac Roundtable

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Direct download: TMA_089.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:23 PM

Apple hardware updates, a software review from Bronson, and basic network troubleshooting tips...on this episode of The Mac Attcak.

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BusySync

iStumbler

AirPort troubleshooting guide

Apple Airport Manuals

"Mac OS X: Connect to the Internet, troubleshoot your Internet connection, and set up a small network "

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition

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Direct download: TMA_088.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:09 AM

Keeping your MacBook shinny, "The Missing Manual - Mac OS X: Leopard Edition" book review, listener voice mails and emails, basic Mac troubleshooting, David Sparks is back with a new "Sparks on tech" segment, a giveaway and a whole lot more on this episode of The Mac Attack.

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Mac Roundtable podcast

SuperDuper!

200+ productivity boosting keyboard shortcuts

David Sparks from macsparky.com

"Getting Sold on iTunes"

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition

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Basic Troubleshooting (quick list)
Listen to the show for details!

- Shut your Mac down, wait 10 to 15 seconds and restart.
- Try a safe boot - hold down the shift key after hearing the start up chime.
- Try disconnecting all peripherals connected to your computer. Boot with just your monitor, keyboard and mouse attached.
- Create a new user account, and see if the problem persists there.
- A keyboard or mouse gone bad can make it appear that your Mac is frozen.
- If an application stops responding you should force quit it.
- Relaunch the finder.
- Check free space on the system volume.
- Repair disk with Disk Utility.
- Use Cocktail, Onyx, or MainMenu to to repair disk permissions, run maintenance scripts, clean the user and system caches.
- Download and reinstall current Combo update.
- Is your computer acting up after a RAM upgrade?
- Get yourself a commercial drive tool - DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro, Drive Genius.
- If all else fails reinstall the system from scratch or do an 'archive and install'.

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Direct download: TMA_087.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:40 AM

Listener emails and voice mails on this episode of The Mac Attack - misbehaving hard drive icon, those mysterious recovered files in your trash, defragging your drive, refurbished Macs, DiskWarrior, applications accessing your keychain, Apple certification and a whole lot more of your questions and comments.

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Alsosft DiskWarriork

Data Rescue II

File Salvage

10.5.1 update

iChat: echo, feedback, or whine

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Direct download: TMA_086.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:42 AM

Welcome to a special Macworld edition of The Mac Attack. David Sparks from MacSparky.com joins me from Macworld via Skype.

Thanks David!

Direct download: TMA_MW08_001.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:26 AM

On this episode of The Mac Attack: Mac OS X System Maintenance (for Tiger and Leopard).

(Show note: This is a new episode but I say 2007 instead of 2008 in the show opening. My brain was still stuck in 2007.)

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MainMenu

OnyX

General Mac House cleaning
- keep your software up-to-date (Mac OS and applications)
- back up before performing any maintenance
- before performing maintenance quit all applications

Recommended monthly maintenance
- repair system/disk file permissions
- manually run daily, weekly & monthly maintenance scripts

Recommended six month preventative maintenance
- zap parameter ram (PRAM) - hold down Command, Option, P, and R
- rebuild LaunchServices
- clear or delete System, User, Internet, and font caches

Listen to this episode for more details about each of these steps.

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Direct download: TMA_085.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:11 AM