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Thought that this invention was worth noting.  If endorsed right and works like it should, we could very well see these in our backyards in 3 to 5 years.  Please leave any comments below.

          If you are a mac user this site is something you need to know about.  There are tips that are updated constantly throughout every day and some you may have already known, but others you will be surprised to learn.  One of the most useful tips that surprised me was the ability to use your Facebook chat with iChat.  All you have to do is setup a few quick things with the iChat server, and you are done. Each post is put into a category such as, web browsers, 10.6, iPhone and much more. This allows for easy access to what concerns you.  Additionally, there are help forums for any problems you have with your mac computer or apple product.  Everything from applications to X11 can be discuss there, and there is a section for any feedback you'd like to give out about the site.
          Also, the tips aren't always given by the writers themselves, but you can submit your own.  The writers will check it out and post it if it works.  I visit this site everyday, because they always have something new for me to learn.  I have subscribed to it in "My Blog List" so you can see the latest tip there or you can subscribe to it yourself.  Obviously if you use Windows the site wont be of much use, but you can still find out new things about your competitor.
          Thanks for reading and as always, if you have any comments or questions please leave them.

Here is the link to the website : Mac Hints
Also, this is the link to the Facebook chat with iChat: Mac Hint Facebook

          

          If you didn't know, there is a way to download different parts from a website using Safari.  Such as an image, .GIF animation, .SWF animation or even a video.  If you click on "Window" in the top menu bar and then "Activity", you will see all of the contents of the website(s) you are looking at.  It may not seem useful, but it is a great simple way to download a video from a site such as Youtube.  When you are on a website with a video you want to download, you just go to "Activity" and look for that video file.  Make sure that you are looking at the content of the page with the video because "Activity" will show every window or tab you have open.  Now to locate the video, you just have to scroll down slowly and pay attention to the file sizes while you scroll.  For the most part, everything should be a few kilobytes (KB) or bytes until the video.  The video will normally be the largest file you see, that is in megabytes (MB).  With Youtube you will have to wait until the video has fully loaded until you can download it.  So it will look something like "4.0 of 11.0 MB", until it has fully loaded the video.  Once it is finished you just double click the file in "Activity" and it should download to your desktop.  I've noticed that some files download as a flash file (.FLV) or mpeg4 (.MP4), so you can use your own video converting software if needed.  Now this wont work with every site, because some sites are more protected than others, so don't expect to download everything you see.  I find this very useful instead of downloading some other software to just simply download videos from different web pages.  What do you think?  Did you already know this? Please leave any questions or comments below and thanks for reading.

          

          I've been helping out some of my friends with their computers, which they were getting ready to sell and came across Kill Disk.  With Kill Disk you can be sure that the files on your hard drive are erased well enough, so that no one can recover them.  Great for any computers that may have very personal information on it.  It should work with just about any computer, no matter the operating system or size of hard drive.  There are different versions, including a free version that allows you to do a one pass zero method.  You also get updates from Kill Disk free as well.  If you chip in some money for the paid version, you can do up to 99 passes on your hard drive (making your data harder to recover) and it writes over your drive with algorithm's that support 17 security standards.
          Kill Disk uses your bios to delete your hard drive, which means you will have to boot from your Kill Disk CD.  Check it out for your self because it is especially important that your hard drive is clean a and safe from thieves.  Here is the link: Kill Disk.  If you have any questions about how to use it or have any other hard drive erase methods please leave a comment.  Thanks for reading.