RipIt is a neat little program which helps you copy your DVD movies (‘rip’ your movies) to your hard drive. The creators of the program, ‘The Little App Factory’, suggest that ripping your DVD’s to your mac hard drive will save your macbook battery, since ‘Laptops use a lot more juice when they’re spinning a DVD and a hard drive’. While this may be true, I think it’s rather clear that any DVD ripping program will most likely be used in order to...

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SizeUp is small program created by Irradiated Software that is designed to provide you with better control over how your precious, precious screen real estate is being organized. Using SizeUp, you can quickly position a window to ’snap’ into certain areas of your screen using keyboard shortcuts or your mouse (). This program instantly reminded me of the ’snap’ feature in Windows 7, and it feels great to finally steal something from the Windows guys instead of the other way...

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CHM files (.chm), or ‘Microsoft Compiled HTML Files’ are a popular format used for downloaded e-books. While this format has many advantages, most viewers only allow you to print or convert one page at a time. So unless you have a few hours to manually print or convert each page, you need a quick way to do it all at once. iChm, by Robin Lu, is a free and powerful CHM file viewer for the Mac operating system. It is the solution to this problem, and you can download it here. Just follow...

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The MagicJack is a great device which for many people can completely negate the need to own a home phone through a traditional provider, saving a fair amount of money. Often, users of the MagicJack experience a problem where the MagicJack is recognized by your pc, but for some reason it is not working. For example, the ‘dial’ screen is not popping up. If your MagicJack is not working properly, one solution is to uninstall the drivers, and then reinstalling them. This video goes over the...

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When you need to get to the top of the iphone or iPod touch window, Instead if manually scrolling, simply tap anywhere on the status bar to quickly and automatically scroll to the top of the page. This is especially useful when reading through a long web page (for example, Google News), e-mail, or SMS text message log, where you need to he at the tip of the window to enter a new website, reply to the email, or call the person who you’ve been messaging.

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