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How to clean your Mighty Mouse

In: Apple| Hardware| Mac| Projects| Technology

27 Feb 2010

Apple’s Mighty Mouse (now also called an Apple Mouse) has a dirty little secret. While the scroll ball performs its duties as intended when the mouse is new, it can become clogged with dirt and grime over time.
Its performance then deteriorates dramatically, with the ball sticking and failing to scroll. There are a number of [...]

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Tags: Apple, How To, Mac, Mighty Mouse

PDF OCR 1.4.1 – Convert PDFs into text documents.

In: Mac| Software| Technology

25 Feb 2010

PDF OCR is a simple drag-and-drop utility for Mac OS X that converts your PDFs into text documents. It uses advanced OCR (optical character recognition) technology to extract the text of the PDF even if that text is contained in an image. This is particularly useful for dealing with PDFs that were created via a [...]

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How To Quickly Improve The Quality of MP3s With GarageBand

23 Feb 2010

Not all MP3s are created equal. The quality of some MP3s are good, others are barely audible. Among the thousands of songs on your hard drive, I’m sure that there are several that fall into the category of ‘should be better’ — the ones with low volume settings, the ones with weak vocals, the one [...]

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Tags: Garageband, Mac, Recording

Add a weather forecast event to iCal

In: Internet| Mac| Software| Tybee

14 Jul 2009

Have you ever wanted a handy, always-there weather forecast, ready for viewing at the launch of an app (be that app on your iPhone or your Mac)? Thanks to Weather Underground, and Mac OS X Hints tipster allanBook, you can now easily add an automatically-updating weather forecast to iCal.
Load the Weather Underground site in your [...]