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No thanks to my sister’s penchant for “trying out” software and visiting some interesting websites (using Internet Explorer, no less), my dad’s Windows XP PC was becoming more and more sluggish with each passing day. More frustratingly, a few pop-up ads would appear as soon as Internet Explorer was launched, marring the surfing experience. Now, I’ve managed to switch my dad to the superior Mozilla Firefox (and he didn’t even notice it, thanks to an Internet Explorer skin for Firefox),…

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One thing that’d always bugged me about SMB printing from my Power Mac to the shared Canon S600 connected to my dad’s Windows XP PC was that the print quality had been unsatisfactory: either the colours are “off” or too faded, and no amount of tweaking of print settings helped. (Text printing looks OK though). It looked like, at least where my particular Canon printer is concerned, Gimp-Print drivers simply don’t cut it for graphics. (OS X 10.3 comes with…

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And really, who can blame them? Really, it’s no longer true that processing power (i.e. GHz ratings) is the only thing considered when one decides to purchase a new computer: take a look at the growing popularity of the so-called Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs pioneered by Shuttle (which is probably inspired by Apple’s own Power Macintosh G4 Cube). Fact is, aesthetics matter too. Now these folks have listed some modifications they did to make their Windows system resemble Mac…

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I’ve been playing around with Apple’s GarageBand for a while, especially ever since Apple Singapore announced the MusicJam competition. While I sadly wasn’t able to make the time to create some tunes decent enough for that competition, I did have quite a bit of fun trying heh.. Anyhow, anyone familiar with GarageBand would have seen this pesky warning at some point So what to do? Well, fortunately there’re a few sites that list performance tips for GarageBand. Here’re two of…

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