Category Archives: OS X

Connecting facebook.com to iChat (OS X)

This small tutorial shows you how to connect facebook to iChat (on OS X) through the Jabber protocol. Further details of how to configure iChat can as well be found on the following video: First please open iChat an go to the preferences and press the ‘+’ sign to create a new acccount – you will…

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How to Recover Deleted Files from a SD Card on a Mac for Free

The other day I deleted by mistake all my images on a SD Card prior to moving the files to my local computer. I could recall that a couple of years ago there have been some free tools on the market, but today a quick goggling revealed first paid services/software only. Especially for the make…

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How to open .7z files on a mac (SevenZip)

7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing filters. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented as a Windows solution. Both the 7-Zip program and a library to read the 7z file format are publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The…

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Stopping iPhoto to sync with flickr.com

iPhoto 2009 has a great feature embedded to automatically synchronize chosen picture folders with flickr.com. The synchronization is two-ways, means that later changes in iPhoto will find their way into flickr.com and vice versa. This is in principle a great feature but if you want to hold older photos on flickr only (this is what I want…

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