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How to save a movie for playing on a PC
The safest way to save a movie from a Macintosh computer that you want to transfer to a PC is to save it as an AVI file. The problem is (as pointed out in the comments below!) is that the latest...
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Switching to OS X
Switching to OS X from a PC is a big change. Here are a some of my random thoughts on the transition. Mentally it’s better to think, “This is new, let’s learn it from scratch” rather than thinking of...
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How to make a bootable backup of your computer
There are two main ways to backup your Apple computer. 1. Use Time Machine to automatically backup. This is the Apple way – the easy way. OR 2. Manually backup your computer with some other software...
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How to backup a DVD
If you’ve tried watching DVD’s on your laptop (eg on a plane or in the car) you’ll notice the batteries wear down pretty quickly. Here’s how to copy your DVD onto your laptop, which you can do at...
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How to install OSX Lion on multiple computers
The new OSX Lion comes as an upgrade from the Apple App Store – not on a DVD. The good news is that once you’ve paid for it once, Apple allow you to install it on all the computers you own for free!...
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How to rip (copy) a DVD to your Macintosh Computer.
Mac the Ripper is a little program that allows you to copy a DVD to your computer, and at the same time it removes the copy protection. (This is called ‘ripping’ a DVD). This allows you for example to...
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How to lighten up dark movies on your iMac or projector.
I noticed when watching movies on my 27 inch iMac that they are too dark. There are a lot of details in the blacks missing compared to watching on a DVD player. Then at church for some reason our...
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How to convert a DVD to a Movie that you can watch on your iPad or iPhone or...
Here’s how to copy a DVD to your hard drive and then convert it to a movie that will play on your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or even in a Keynote presentation. You need to convert the movie from DVD...
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How to watch different movie formats on your Mac (eg AVI or WMV) using VLC...
There are so many movies coming round in junk emails these days that you may be happy you can’t play WMV or AVI files on your mac. But just in case you do need to actually look at one, here’s how....
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How to copy a DVD movie to your ipad.
Here’s the process for how to copy a DVD to your iPad to watch on a plane or in the car. 1. Download and install VLC player. (http://www.videolan.org/) (You won’t be using it but it installs some bits...
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How to put a DVD movie onto your ipod
It’s a two step process.. Firstly you rip the file from the DVD player and convert it to a small MP4 movie. Then you copy the movie into itunes. Here’s how to do it step by step. 1. RIP THE MOVIE FROM...
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How to make a DVD on OS X without iDVD
I can’t remember how long it was since I last burned a DVD, Most movies are shared now via the internet, or on a thumbdrive, but I was recently doing a course and they required me to submit a...
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