Playing HD Video on Weak Hardware

This shows how to play HD video on hardware that shouldn't be able to play it. It is an OS X app, which is extremely useful for weak hackintoshes, for example, netbooks. With this software, an MSI wind laptop can play 720p video PERFECTLY.

How To Get FrontRow and Quicktime to Play Almost Any File

This is just a quick, easy, and free way to get Quicktime and Frontrow to play anything except DRM WMV files. I hope you find this useful. It will take you less than 5 minutes to do, and will make your video watching experience much more comfortable than relying on VLC to play most of your videos.

How To Password Protect Files in OS X

This video explains how to easily protect files under a password in OS X. Using 256 bit encryption, this is very secure.

This way, no matter what you want to hide, whether it be a 10kb text file, or a 1 TB video, picture, or work collection, you can easily keep it away from prying eyes.

How To Set a Screensaver as a Desktop Background in OS X

This video explains you to set any screensaver as your desktop background in OS X. It looks really nice and is extremely easy to do. It is also a very small app, so you dont have to worry about your hard drive space while using it.

How I set up my dock in OS X

This video shows you how to set up your dock to access as many apps as you want without the need for a huge dock. This is very useful if you have many apps but don't want to fill your dock. It also shows you how to organize by category or use.

Creating a RAMdisk in OSX

RAMdisks are an amazingly fast for of storage. They take a chunk of your RAM, and allow you to use it like a regular hard drive. In this video, I show how to easily create a RAMdisk in OSX.

Videos

I've started making videos on OSX for YouTube, and I will be posting them on this blog as well, so my readers will be able to find them more easily. Sorry I havent updated in a long time, but I just realized videos are better for most people than articles, so I'll be doing it this way for the most part.

If you enjoy these videos, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel. The user is mac4tw.

Most of my videos will be made in HD, so it is much easier to see than in standard definition, and you can see them in HD or SD straight from the blog, so you don't even have to navigate to YouTube and away from this site to see them.

Warcraft III Autorefresh

If you are a Warcraft III player, you probably get frustrated by having to refresh every slot manually in OS X while windows users simply run an auto-refresh bot that does this for them. There is a way to set up your Mac to do the same.

First, make sure you have X11 installed. Just do a search for X11 in spotlight, or find it under Applications/Utilities. It is a part of OSX, and if it is not installed, simply install if from your OSX disk, or from the disk that came with your computer.

Once you have that installed, download and extract this bot and download the mono framework.

Install the mono framework you downloaded.

Now open Terminal (Applications/Utilities) and type, without any of the quotes:

"cp "(put a space after cp) and then after the space drag WarcraftIIIAutoRefresh.exe (in the folder of the bot) into the terminal window, and type " .autoref.exe" (remember the space before .autoref.exe)

Hit enter.

Now open X11, go to the Application Menu, and choose "Customize"

Click the "Add Item" button

In the new blank item that comes up, double click in the space for name, and enter what you want the function to be called. I used "AutoRefresh", but you can name it whatever you want.

Double click in the command field, and enter "mono .autoref.exe" (remember the space between mono and .autoref.exe)

Hit the done button and you're all set.

When you want to run this, open X11, go to the Application Menu, and select "AutoRefresh", or whatever you named it. This will run the bot and fix your Warcrafting troubles. Let me know how it works for you.

Virtual Box Update

It has come to my attention that the new version of VirtualBox now supports 3D acceleration. I have not been able to personally try it, but I will post back reviewing the performance, ease of use, etc as soon as I get around to trying it out. In the meantime, if any of you have used it, please let me know what you think.

If it runs good, then it means there will really be no reason whatsoever to pay for Fusion or Parallels, because VirtualBox will be able to do everything the other 2 titles can.