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How To Access Mac OSX Hard Drive From Windows 7 Computer

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We had a customer come in the computer shop the other day who needed us to troubleshoot an external hard drive that was crashing his Mac OSX laptop every time he plugged the USB cable from the external hard drive in. Once he left I removed the hard drive from the external hard drive enclosure and needed to find a way to access the data from my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit laptop to verify the hard drive was functioning as expected. Use the information below to access an OSX hard drive, which is formatted either as HFS, HFS+, or HFSX, from a Windows 7 computer.

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Use wget To Download All PDF Files Listed On A Web Page, wget All PDF Files In A Directory

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Earlier tonight I was working on a project for a customer that wants to translate the Hebrew Interlinear Bible into English which obviously has been done many times before. This customer however has some translations that he wants to make for himself so I needed to find a Hebrew Interlinear Bible in text or PDF format. I was able to locate the Hebrew Interlinear Bible in PDF format however there was a separate PDF for each chapter in each book which numbers something like 930 different PDF’s. I was able to use the wget command described in detail below to download all of the PDF’s with a single command on my Windows 7 computer.

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How To Sync Apps On iPhone Without Deleting Apps Already On iPhone

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The question of how to sync apps between iTunes and your iPhone has come up numerous times before in the comments section of other articles I have written related to iPhone’s or iPod Touches so I figured it was time to write an article to describe how to accomplish this. You need to first transfer the apps downloaded directly to your iPhone to iTunes before syncing. Below I describe the warning message that will have you asking this question followed by how to transfer the apps from the iPhone to iTunes before actually syncing with iTunes.

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How To Install Installous From Cydia

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A friend had me jailbreak their iPhone 3G the other day and once that was completed he later asked if I could install Installous as well. Installous is an application on a jailbroken iDevice that will allow you to search and install applications similar to the Apple iTunes store. Follow the directions below to install Installous from within the Cydia application.

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How To Install ACELP Audio Codec, Install ACELP.net Audio Codec

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There are times when it may be necessary to install video or audio codecs on your computer to play videos that will not play with the default video codecs or audio codecs supplied with any of the media players on your computer. You can verify what codecs are necessary using AVIcodec as noted in this article. One of the audio codecs that may be required to play certain video files could be the ACELP.net audio codec. Use the information below to install the ACELP.net audio codec on your Windows computer.