DAA Converter for Mac OS X is a free utility for converting DAA & GBI disk images to ISO format so they can be accessed on your Mac.

DAA Converter is a native GUI application which wraps the command-line tool, DAA2ISO / GBI 2 ISO, by Luigi Auriemma.
It runs on Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or later. I have tested it on Mac OS X Leopard which works just fine on 10.5, too.

Just drag the icon of any .daa or .gib disk image onto the application’s icon, and the conversion process will instantly take place – an .iso version of the disk image will be instantly created on the same directory as the source image file.

You can download DAA Converter for Mac OS X (39) here or visit the downloads page.

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1. How to easily open UIF disk images on the Mac and convert to .iso format

You can open and convert UIF disk images on Mac OS X using one of the following disk image utilities:

1. Uif2iso which is a cross-platform command-line tool developed by Luigi Auriemma.
2. Uif2iso4mac a GUI application by Torsten Curdt . Uif2iso4mac is built upon  Luigi Auriemma’s uif2iso command line utility with a Mac graphic user interface adding basic functionalities of a real Mac app like drag-and-drop and a menu bar i.e. choosing an image using the File > Open menu.

With both utilities, conversion of UIF to ISO format is pretty much straight-forward.

How to use UIF 2 ISO on the Mac

The easy way

• Download UIF2ISO 4 Mac (71).
• Open the zip file and decompress UIF2ISO for Mac to your Applications folder (and then maybe even to the Utilities folder therein).

Quick Tip: Drag the Uif2iso4mac icon to your dock, once you have decided the appropriate location for this utility app.

• Drag the UIF image you want to convert onto the Uif2iso4mac icon and that’s it – conversion to the .iso format is automatic. You can then either double-click the converted iso disk image to get it mounted on the Mac or open it with Disk Utility or a 3rd party app like Roxio Toast to burn the image to a CD-R or DVD-R disk.

The geeky way

If you are one of those command line wizs, you may want to use Luigi Auriemma’s Uif2iso command-line tool.

• Download uif2iso (21)
• Follow the instructions in the Read Me file (uif2iso.txt)

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924

Apple iMac MB952LL/A 27-Inch Desktop

Apple VESA Mount Adapter Kit for 24-inch/27-inch iMac and 24-inch LED Cinema Display – Mounting component ( mounting adapter ) for LCD display / CPU – mounting interface: 100 x 100 mm

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1. Exit iWeb on the first machine (where you created the web site).
2. Using the finder, go to your home folder, open your Library folder, then open the Appliation Support folder.
3. Copy the iWeb folder to a thumb drive and take that to the other machine (or find some other way to copy the entire folder to the other machine). (If you don’t see an iWeb folder then check to see that you are not looking in the system Library folder.)
4. On the second machine, drag this folder to your own Library/Appliation Support folder, replacing any iWeb folder already there. (Be sure iWeb is not running there too.)
5. Finally, launch iWeb, and you can now edit the web site on the second machine.

See

http://macamour.com/blog/2009/01/15/transfer-an-iweb-website-from-a-mac-to-another/

also

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2193783&tstart=0

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Luckily I had downloaded a beta version and already using it. You can download it here for your own hands-on experience on Google Chrome on your Mac.

Download Google Chrome for Mac (beta) (138) for Mac OS X (supposedly for Intel only)

Google Chrome is made possible by the Chromium open source project and some other open source software.

You may also want to look into

Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard

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On windows , the maximize button – where the term “maximize” is inherent from Windows operating system anyway - simply enlarges a window to almost full screen except that the window’s title bar, menu bar and the task bar remains visible and the remaining space is allocated to the window and its contents. On the Mac, however, this may not exactly be the case – especially when using Safari.

The maximize button on Safari on the Mac, when clicked, causes the browser’s window to change size usually to the web page’s defined width horizontally and the height of the window to anything from a random size to the vertical space between the menu bar and the dock, and not full-screen (unless the screen-resolution is 1024×768 or smaller). For more info about how the Mac works and how different it works than Windows PCs, you may want to refer to the Mac Basics Page.

Work-around: How to maximize Safari Window to full-screen?

Soluıtion 1 – new!

Get Glims add-on for Safari (Mac-only) which does the following:

• Adds a “Max Window Size” menu item to resize the Safari window
• Adds full-screen browsing capability
  while these are the functionalities which concern us, Glims offers the following features also:
• Adds thumbnails to Google.com search results
• Adds thumbnails to Yahoo.com search results
• Adds search engines to the default Google search tab
• Adds full-screen browsing capability
• Adds Favicons to tab labels (in order to close tabs, you click on the favicon which replaces the ‘x’ , by the way)
• Adds keyword search from address bar
• Undo “Close Tab” (cmd-z)
• Re-opens last session when Safari starts
• Auto-Closes download window
• Adds new tab position option (right/left/leftmost/rightmost)
• Adds tab closing using middle mouse button
• Focus last selected tab
• Always open links in a new tab
• Type-ahead support (auto cmd-f)
• Sets the focus on the search field when opening a new window
• Adds Amazon’s information banner on Google.com search results
• Adds Amazon’s information banner on Yahoo.com search results
• Forms autocomplete always on
• Autocomplete search phrase
• Adds bookmark separator
• Adds bookmark actions
• Dated download folders
• Localized to Japanese, French, Polish, German, Spanish, Italian, and Korean

Download : Glims for Safari add-on (199)

Soluıtion 2 - not fool-proof

J. Y. Design has a dedicated Safari resources page on his blog where you can add shortcuts to your bookmarks bar which are useful to resizing your browser (not just limited to Safari, but seems to work virtually on any browser – though the max. button on a browser like Firefox causes the window to be resized to the maximum possible dimensions). See the demo video clip below to see how to install them on your browser (as simple as drag-and-drop) and then see them in action:

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You can support Toby by visiting and subscribing to his YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/tobuscus

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There are some 3rd party CHM file viewers for the Mac, though, and some of them are absolutely free:

Chmox

Chmox is a viewer for Microsoft Help “CHM” (aka Compiled HTML) files on Mac OS X. It is open source, free, fast and efficient, 100% native Cocoa (uses Safari engine) application.

License: Free, open-source (GNU)

• Download Chmox
• Author Website

xChm

xCHM is a cross-platform GUI front-end to chmlib, with borrowed bits from Pabs’ chmdeco project.

Originally written for UNIX systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), xCHM has been since ported to Mac OS X and Windows. xCHM can show the content tree if one is available, print pages, change font face and size, remember bookmarks, display a searchable index, and search for words in the current page and the whole book.

License: Shareware (The author of the software is broke and can no longer afford a Mac, so support him to get a Mac to continue his development on the Mac)

• Download xChm
• Author Website

Chimp

Chimp lets you view all those pesky CHM files that are floating around. CHM stands for Compiled HTML, and it’s originally used by Microsoft Windows. Chimp lets you open these files with the elegance and ease you’d expect from OS X.

Features:

• Document-wide searching
• Document-wide printing
• Editable bookmarks

License: Shareware

• Download Chimp
• Author Website

iChm

iChm is an ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) files.

• Features
• Fully built with Cocoa. No ugly window and slow rendering.
• Tab browsing
• Search. Result sorted by relevance.
• Text encoding detecting/switching
• Find in the page
• Tag powered bookmark
• Index
• Back/Forward
• Text zoom
• Export to PDF
• Continuous reading with Page down/Page up

iPhone & iPod Touch version also available. See the author’s web site (link below) for more information.

License: iCHM is open-sourced under MIT license. Check the project page at code.google.com for the source code.

• Download iChm
• Author Website

ArCHMock

ArCHMock is another CHM viewer / reader for Mac OS X hosted on Google Code – the source code is also available.

License: Free (MIT License)

• Download ArCHMock 1.2
  
• Author Website

Tubby

Tubby is a CHM file expander. It opens Combined HTML Help files and outputs their contents in a folder of the same name.

License: Shareware (The author of the software is broke and can no longer afford a Mac, so support him to get a Mac to continue his development on the Mac)

• Download Tubby 0.6.3
  
• Author Website

Tubby

Tubby CHM dosyalarını Stuffit gibi bir kalsörün içine ayrı ayrı belgeler halinde açan bir program. Kombine HTML yardım dosyalarını her sayfa ayrı bir dosya olacak şekilde aynı isimde bir klasör içine atıyor

• Tubby 0.6.3 indir
  
• Programın Website

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What is VNC?

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing, and it is a desktop sharing system with a graphic user interface which allows you to connect and control a remote computer over a network or the Internet. Thanks to the RFB (Remote Frame Buffer) protocol it’s using, VNC applications send the keyboard and mouse events to a remote computer on the network (or the Internet) who’s screen is being shared, and it relays back the updates.

RFB (Remote FrameBuffer) is a simple protocol and since operates at the framebuffer level, it can be used on all operating systems with a GUI including Windows, Macintosh (Mac OS X) and Linux. Although RFB started as a very simple protocol used by VNC and its derivatives, it has been improved so as to support file sharing, advanced compression and security techniques in its development cycle.

Why VNC is used and How

With VNC you can display the screen of a remote computer on your own computer in a window or in full screen mode, and using your own keyboard and mouse on this screen, you can control that remote computer as if you are sitting in front of it. All actions taken on the view of the remote desktop on your computer are performed actually on the remote computer itself.

You can connect to and take control of a Mac or a PC using VNC, whether you are connecting from a Mac or a PC. Because of the use of the RFB protocol, the client computer and the server do not necessarily be running the same operating system.

VNC Components

• The VNC Server VNC server is the host computer which would remotely be controlled by a client computer running a VNC client application to connect to it.
• VNC Client is the computer running the VNC Client app, to connect to the VNC server and take over the control.

Setting up VNC on Mac OS X

Setting up Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) as a VNC Server

Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 come right out-of-the-box with VNC server components built-in, so all you need to do is to activate them.

1. Open System Preferences from the Apple menu
2. Go to ‘Sharing’ under Internet & Network category
3. Activate the checkbox of Screen Sharing
4. Go to Advanced Settings in Tiger, Computer Settings in Leopard, set the access privilege and the password for those who will connect to the machine remotely using VNC. (JollyFastVNC or Mac OS X Leopard’s ScreenSharing do not require this step although setting a password is highly recommended)
5. Close System Preferences and you’re done.

Setting up a VNC Client on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

In order to connect to a remote computer from Mac OS X 10.4 using VNC, you need to install a VNC client on Tiger. Although there are commercial products such as RealVNC, a few freeware applications are also out there:

JollysFastVNC (free) as of this writing is said to be the fastest VNC client available for the Mac with far more features than its counterparts. (still at an alpha version though) – Download (775 KB)

Chicken of the VNC (free) is an older VNC client for the Mac and simply connects to a remote server using an IP address. – Download (1.2 MB)

RealVNC Viewer Enterprise Edition (commercial) featuring 2048-bit RSA server authentication and 128-bit AES session encyrption, RealVNC is a commercial enterprise-class VNC solution (server suite edition also available).

Setting up VNC Client on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

The Finder way

In this method, you will be using the ScreenSharing app which comes along with Mac OS X 10.5’s core services. ScreenSharing is a VNC client built-in on Leopard.

1. Select “Connect to server…” from the Go menu in Finder
2. In the ’server address’ field in the opening pop-up window, type “vnc://” and then the IP address of the VNC server you want to connect to (for example: vnc://192.168.1.24)
3. Click the ‘Connect’ button
4. If it works, you have the option of connecting as a registered user or asking permission from the remote computer.
   1. If you choose to connect as a registered user, you need to enter the username and the password of an account set up on the remote computer.
   2. If you choose to ask for permission to connect, an invitation request will be sent to the VNC server and someone at that computer must grant you permission in order to proceed.

The iChat way

In Leopard iChat has built-in ScreenSharing. Although using VNC with iChat is not the best method, it is one of the simplest ways.

1. Open iChat and enter your MobileMe account credentials, or alternatively you should be able to use ‘Bonjour’ if the remote computer is on the same network as yours.
2. Select your buddy from the buddy list.
3. You will see an icon in the shape of two small squares one overlapping the other with a small offset at the bottom of the iChat window. This is the ScreenSharing button.
4. Select “Share my screen with “, or “Ask to share screen… “.
5. iChat takes care of the rest. In order to end the screen sharing session, just press [Command (Apple)]+[Esc] on either computer.

Note: This method requires also someone to be present in front of the remote computer.

Suggestions and Warnings

• If you are the one who sets up the VNC server, for minimal security you should set a password for VNC connection to your computer from “computer settings” in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.
• If you have more serious concerns about security, it’s a better practice to configure VNC to accept only local connections, and then establish an SSH tunnel from the client computer. This way, all VNC packets between the client and the server will have been encrypted.
• Since VNC in itself is not quite secure because of the protocol it uses, it is highly recommended that you disable it, reverting the steps described above i.e. going through the above described steps in reverse order, when you’re done using it.

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According to Engadget(.com) GeForce GTX 285 graphics accelerator card will be available for Macs the beginning of this summer (expected to be shipping June 2009).

The GeForce GTX 285 takes DirectX 10 to gaming beyond HD with a top of 2560×1600 resolution.

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