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There is a Windows app known as Resource Hacker, it can open .exe, .dll, .icl, and many more formats to view the bitmaps, icons, and strings inside. I, with the help of WineBottler, was able to make a “ported” version for mac. The app will only work on Intel macs, the file can be found [...]

Fourth Place: Unfortunately, I will have to put the despised Stuffit Expander here. It works well, and is the invasive monster of archiving apps. Third Place: The Unarchiver is an excellent unarchiving application, with support for many formats Second Place: p7zip is a ported version of the popular 7zip, the code is command line only. [...]

We all want to know the best apps and utilities to fill our niches, today I’ll talk about my favorite video apps and plugins: Third Place: The best mac video converter WAS VisualHub. However, the project is dead. An open source project can be found here Seccond Place: Perian is a free, open source app [...]

Almost all netbooks now come with a recovery partition. Although most people say that backup to an external hardrive is impossible, I have found a way. I have only gtried this on the backup partition of the Acer Aspire One, which cannot be backed up to a cd. This guide should work with other computer [...]

To install grub, you will need some forum of Linux or grub already. If you can boot off of a usb, then you can use UNetbootin to get Super Grub Disk. Do not reboot yet. Then you will need the grub files, If you are using my “How to Backup Your Recovery Partition” guide, then [...]

I know of three methods, there may be more! METHOD 1: To install ubuntu or debian, and many other operating systems on a netbook, you can use my earlier post but with the ubuntu iso which can be found here or the Debian Iso METHOD 2: However, there is an even easier way that doesn’t [...]

Most net books have a recovery partition that can be used to restore windows on the computer. If you have just lost access to that partition, then you can access it with Grub4Dos, which can be installed on a usb flshdrive. However, sometimes the recovery partition is gone, broken, or simply never existed. There are [...]

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Does your computer constantly fail at copping large files to your new hardrive that you bought. Well, that’s supposed to happen. YAY! right… THE PROBLEM: Most hardrives are formated fat32 or fat16, both of these formats have a limitation. The issue is that each of these formats cannot hold files over 2gb. If the file [...]