I’m creating a backup of my entire Macbook Pro using SuperDuper so I can run a repair against my drive without worrying about ruining anything. My system wouldn’t boot up properly Sunday night and it turns out there are a ton of files that need fixing using Apple’s Verify & Repair for the permissions and disk. I don’t have time to spend reinstalling Snow Leopard and all my applications so this is why this step is necessary even though I have my data backed up via Mozy.
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Category: Utilities
How To Partition Your Mac Firewire Drive for Bootable SuperDuper Backup
Copy Videos From Your iPhone with iPhonebrowser [VIDEO]
Are you recording long videos on your iPhone and want to copy them over to your computer for editing?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7n2u4ySGMk[/youtube]
Download iPhoneBrowser which is free and open source to quickly copy over videos, images and files from your iPhone to your computer.
Platform: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
A big thanks to @lhgreene for giving me a heads up on this application!
Sizer Utility Resizes Your Windows for HD YouTube Camtasia Studio [VIDEO]
Do you create videos and tutorials to share on YouTube? In order for the videos to show up as the widescreen version, the dimensions of your video need to be at least 1280×760. I use Sizer to quickly resize my windows before doing screencast recording with Camtasia Studio or Jing.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9roM-9FwyA[/youtube]
You’ll find more help about how to setup before you start recording over at Techsmith’s Visual Lounge blog.
How to Hide Your Desktop Icons on XP and Vista
I was Googling on how to hide my desktop icons and found a great Lifehacker article so I made a video to illustrate how it works.
HideDesktopIcon
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHyRaJrxJK4[/youtube]
The article linked to HowToGeek’s tutorial on using the HideDesktopIcon utility to quickly create a keyboard shortcut to hide icons. I don’t really need a keyboard shortcut but I did find the utility to be fast and effective!
It works on my XP systems. I would think it would work fine on Vista. If you’re using Windows 2000, you need to upgrade.
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