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My email to Steve Jobs

OK, here we go. If I ever sent an email to Steve Jobs, and more importantly if he ever read it, I’d probably do the Mac Fanatic thing and praise the Mac hardware and OS X and go on and on about how much I love everything Mac. Mac Pros, iPods, MacBook Pros, etc. But [...]

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Build a high-quality external hard drive

I just put together an external USB drive and am so happy with it I’d thought I’d share my recipe. I have owned many external drives before, including LaCie external drives, and was always disappointed when I’d open them up. Cheap Maxtor drives, poor engineering, el cheapo parts, not to mention how noisy they’d get. [...]

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10 must-have Mac apps

OK, everyone has their favorite Macintosh applications. Here is my list of Mac apps that I have to have. I use them everyday, and when I use a PC without their functionality, I tend to tear up. But that’s just me ; ) 1. Text Editor: Text Wrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/) 2. Browser: Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/) 3. Internet: [...]

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Install Webmin on OS X

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. 1. Download it at http://www.webmin.com/download.html [...]

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Welcome to our new Mac Blog

Welcome to mac-lab.com. We are working on our new blog to bring you the easiest tips and screenshots for Macs, OS X, PHP, mySQL, Apache, Webmin, phpMyAdmin, etc.

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