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Mac OS X Zip Expanding Utility

Firefox (and possibly other applications) may ask you what you want to do with .zip archives that you download from the Internet. If you want to expand them with Mac OS X (rather than StuffIt Expander), you may be unsure of which application actually does the job. You're looking for Archive Utility (in Leopard) or BOMArchiveHelper (in Tiger). In either case, the application is stored in Hard Drive/System/Library/Core Services/. Don't move it from there, though, or you'll confuse matters.

 
 

Contribute Photos from May 15th to Aday.org

On 15 May 2012, take photos of your daily life and upload them to aday.org, a non-profit project to document the state of our lives on that day.

 
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FileMaker Pro 12 Updates Themes and Layout Capabilities

Apple Releases Security Updates for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Reunion 10 Offers Better Genealogical Overviews, Web Search

Keep Your MobileMe Email Address without iCloud

An Alarming Abundance of Alerts

Adobe Relents on $199 Photoshop Security Fix

Apple Hardens Security with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Safari 5.1.7

Beware Accidental Zooming in iOS (and Mac OS X)

iOS 5.1.1 Addresses Bugs

 

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Apple ID Horror Story

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Scan anywhere with Doxie, the scanner for your Mac. Doxie scans
paper, photos, and receipts anywhere — no computer required.
And Doxie’s great Mac software organizes, creates searchable PDFs,
sends to the cloud, and more. <http://www.getdoxie.com/a/bits>