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Can’t Download Videos From YouTube? What to do When the Mac Safari Trick Fails

February 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Mac Stuff

Note! Downloading videos is a violation of the YouTube terms of service. See below. Personal, temporary use is not an approved scenario. Based on this information, suggest you limit your caching to sites that are OK with this behavior, or do as I now do and leverage the ability of iTunes to cache locally — […]

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Review: Mac Office 2001 R4 Maintenance Upgrade (Also Called Office 2011)

October 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Mac Stuff

I just installed the latest maintenance update to Mac Office 2001. This is the fourth revision to the 2001 R1 update which was called “Office X” (A port of Office 2001 designed to run natively on Apple’s then new operating system OS X.) It’s been ten long years, but I am happy to say this […]

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Cold’s Over, Dead Mac, No Dieter

June 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Mac Stuff

So, I started feeling human again Friday afternoon. Sunday night, I boot up my Mac to get a look at email and Monday’s calendar. Surprise! My Mac is totally dead. Kaput. After 24 years of daily Mac use, I’m no slouch when it comes to diagnosing these things, so I spend several hours trying everything […]

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