i was at my cousins today and she had a movie i wanted to watch. well she popped it into her mac and made me a copy and it was a protected dvd. i was pretty excited and wanted to share the program with you since its a free one.

MacTheRipper 2.6.6

I came across this free app called Fluid and what it does it turns your favorite websites into Mac desktop applications.

Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pandora are becoming more and more like desktop applications every day. Running each of these web apps in an individual tab in your browser can be a real pain.

I signed up and downloaded Skitch and have been trying it out. From what I have seen so far I love it.

I would say its very much like Photobucket but with a very cool stand alone image editor, screen capture etc. program and a few other gems that makes it attractive to use. When you sign up you are also given a Skitch email address called My MailDrop.

Check this out for sale on ebay:

Original Apple 1 computer for sale

Actually it was for sale but didn't sell, which really surprises me. Now I'm sure there are some after market closes nagotiation going on. Here is some more information on the computer:

When changing over from Vista 64 bit to Windows 7 64 bit was easy except for iTunes. I did a lot of digging and I found the issue posted all over the web with no real fixes. Well here is how I fixed mine.

Now first I did go from Vista 64bit to Windows 7 64 bit. Once I reinstalled itunes I simply just had to go into it click on "Store" up in the upper left hand corner and then to "Authorize Computer". Now for some reason it will authorize it as if its on the a different computer (it will say its the second computer)

Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers.

Put your files into your DropBox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you've installed DropBox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!) Because a copy of your files are stored on DropBox's secure servers, you can also access them from any computer or mobile device using the DropBox website.

Now available for your iPhone and iPod Touch

Well apple came out with a new mouse called the "Magic Mouse". There are no buttons, no scrolling wheel its just plane and smooth. If you like touch screens you will love this or maybe you wont. Here is what the mouse looks like:

Most of us have contacts in our Mac Address Book with the home address or business address of the contact filled out.

If you want to get an instant map to any address this is what you do.

Open up your Address Book

Find the contact that you want to google a map to (the contact you choose must have the address field filled out

Right click on the Address Field and select "Map Of"

The address will be instantly shown in Google Maps on Safari

Mac computers have this great little app that is found in the Utilities folder called Keychain. The function of Keychain is too:

Save webpage passwords

Save Login information for other things besides webpages, like IM logins etc.

Save protected notes (secret things you want to keep hidden)

To use this app you need to make sure that your Preferences are set up properly.

Open up Safari

At the top of your browser click on Safari

Then go to Preferences