Mac Gems of the Year: 2010 Review | Software | Mac Gems. Mac Gems of the Year 2010 With the end of the year just around the corner, and our our 2010 Eddy Awards and 2010 App Gems Awards in the history books, it’s time to take a look at the Mac Gems of the Year—the best of the jewels of the Mac software market. Mac Gems are by definition great, affordable software, but these are the ones that I feel stood out in 2010 for their usefulness, value, innovation, or overall excellence.
We covered around 120 Gems this year, and 15 of those products made my list. From taming Flash to converting video, launching applications to reducing typing, reading Web articles to managing windows, these inexpensive applications and add-ons will help you get the most out of your Mac without blowing your budget. A couple interesting tidbits about this year’s picks: Back in June, I picked my favorite Gems of the first half of the year; those products have held up exceptionally well, with each making the final list.
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With a little bit of effort and expense, we turned a PS3 into a Linux computer—without losing any of the machine's native gaming goodness. Step 1: Back Up Sony hardly walks people through the conversion process—you've got to know where to look in the PS3's menus, and many of the steps can be a bit tricky. Step 2: Upgrade Your Drive PlayStation 3 ships with either a 40 or 80 GB drive. Step 3: Install Your New OS. Cracking WPA FAST with video cards. Synergy - Welcome - Synergy.
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One of my favorite TV shows is The office. I love that show but it also takes up a lot of the hard drive space, with each episode of 350MB. I clutter my hard drive space due to this show, and that’s just this one show, not including other shows like Grey’s Anatomy or Supernatural. So, naturally I burn the shows onto DVDs, as it’s a cheap and easily accessible way to store data. But the only problem is the fact that CDs or DVDs aren’t invulnerable to all types of damage, and in fact, even a small finger print or scratch can make a DVD/CD player not able to read the disk. If you try to copy/paste the file on the damaged disk onto a computer, you usually get an error saying the file is corrupted, or damaged. But I found some really handy programs that can solve such problems, which I thought I’d share with you all today.
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