Creating Applications from Web Pages

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 in 3rd Party Applications Tagged with:
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Fluid is a very interesting application that will take any web page and make into a regular Mac application that lives in the Application folder and can go in the Dock. And it is free. After downloading and installing Fluid, run it and you will see the following window: Copy and paste (or type) the URL/web address [...]

Removing Applications

Posted on March 12th, 2008 in 3rd Party Applications, Basic OS Functionality Tagged with: ,
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In Windows to remove an application one goes to the Control Panel and selects Add/Remove programs. Hopefully the program you want to remove is there. If it is, then you click on the Remove button and hope for the best. Even then, any data stored with the application will usually not be removed (because it [...]

Installing Applications

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 in Basic OS Functionality, Setup Tagged with: ,
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Installing applications often seems to be a little different than in Windows XP. I read somewhere that it is simple: just drap the application into your Applications folder. However I tried that with a .dmg file and it just sat there, useless. First, the Applications folder, which is under your home directory (but there is also [...]

Website: Version Tracker

Posted on January 16th, 2008 in Website Tagged with: ,
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Version Tracker is a great site that lists all sorts of Mac software and the latest version for each. It’s primary role (based on its name) is probably supposed to be the version tracking aspect but for a newbie like me it looks like a wonderful place to discover new Mac software. That is also [...]