Sure being a Mac user is cool, many things about Mac OSX makes it very useful and productive, but a small yet frustrating inability to chat with Facebook contacts from with iChat sure makes us go mad. You can easily do the same using third party clients like Adium which already has multi client and Facebook chat support or you can just follow these simple instructions below and chat with your Facebook friends from iChat.
How to Chat with Facebook Contacts in iChat
Step 1
Start iChat,now open Preferences, and then head over to the Accounts tab.
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It probably sucks for non iPod users as they don’t have the convenience of being able to sync there non-Apple mp3 players with iTunes. iTunes is without doubt the best music application around, no doubt its way more intelligent than your average music player. But the worst thing is that you can’t sync your non iPod players with it. But what if we can sync our mobile phone or any other music device without any hassle. We got a solution, right for this problem.
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Dropbox is a pretty cool online backup solution and I have to say I’m pretty impressed by the ease of use and functionality. Dropbox desktop client is pretty impressive with automatic file syncing with any types and size of files, besides that it works with Mac, Windows and Linux.
Normally you can access your Dropbox files opening a regular tab in Chrome but that requires logging into Dropbox website which is quite a hassle and lazy guys like me don’t like to switch between tabs. Dropbox extension for Google Chrome is the answer!
Install the extension from Google Chrome Extensions Gallery.
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Being a Mac user for quite a while, Safari and Firefox seems to very stable on a Mac. But I really hoped we could get our hands dirty with some Google Chrome magic for Mac, well our wait seems over. Google Chrome officially launches both for Linux and Mac as a beta project starting today. Thou it doesn’t have all the features of the Windows version, people won’t find any significant differences if they have gone through the dev builds before. Linux users pardon me bragging all out about Mac!
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Recently Google announced a Free DNS service apparently they think is one of the fastest DNS servers on the planet but just because Google says so doesn’t means its that fast indeed. Namebench a 20% Google Project lets you know which DNS would be the fastest from a whole lot of free public DNS services.
First download the application from its official page. After download run namebench, just click on Start Benchmark and it will begin testing out the free public DNS services from Google Public DNS to OpenDNS to UltraDNS. Beware the tests take around 10 to 15 minutes to complete using the default settings. After completion, the results will be presently in convenient charts displaying all the results and performance of the services.
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Almost every feature rich website nowadays have at-least a little bit of Adobe’s love or have Flash software. Its latest 10 beta release gets even better with GPU acceleration for H.264 video and multi-touch support and tones of bug fixes. Unfortunately the graphics powered HD acceleration is only for the Windows platform. Now come on Adobe almost all the latest Mac or Linux are capable of playing Youtube’s upcoming 1080p videos without breaking a sweat. But all platforms will support multi-touch, hopefully it won’t be bugged with lag problems.
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In less than two weeks Mozzilla is back with yet another beta Firefox 3.6 beta 2. But don’t panic , the update this includes a mammoth 190 bug fixes over beta 1, with addition performance boost and support for oneclick themes. If you still reluctant to test the latest beta, Firefox 3.5.5 is the latest build but for those who have already jumped into the murky waters of beta testing Firefox 3.6 beta 2 seems to a worthy upgrade.
Firefox 3.6 beta 2 is available for download for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Of-course its free.
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