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(4/8/2013) Today’s Apps Gone Free: Wonderputt, Stezza, Busy And More | AppAdvice

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Putt your way through a gorgeous transforming world in Damp Gnat’s casual game, Wonderputt. We also have a colorful music player that was made for cruising, and a slick task manager.

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Intel Announces Next-Gen Thunderbolt With 20 Gbps Speeds & 4K TV Support | Engadget

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Here at NAB, Intel just introduced the next generation of its Thunderbolt interface, which promises a data rate of 20 Gbps in both directions (on each of the two channels) as opposed to 10 Gbps for the previous version. Of course, the company stepped back for a moment first, boasting that Thunderbolt currently has about 200 licensees, and more compatible devices — along with new, thinner cables — should be coming out in the following months. Building up to the big reveal, Intel also shared some info about its new Thunderbolt host controller, (code-named Redwood Ridge), which will be built into some of Intel’s upcoming fourth-gen Core processors.

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Steam’s ‘Early Access’ Now Open To PC & Mac | Apple Insider

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Gaming company Valve on Wednesday kicked off a new “Early Access” initiative, allowing gamers on PCs and Macs to purchase and begin playing select games that are still in development.

The new Early Access program, reflecting the wider state of gaming, is largely PC-centric, but the inclusion of several cross-platform games compatible with Apple’s OS X shows developer support for the Mac is slowly growing. Of the 12 games available, a quarter were coded for both Mac and PC.

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4 Essential Menu Bar Utilities for Mac OS X | OSX Daily

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Menu Bar Essentials

Mac OS X includes a few system-level menu bar items that are incredibly useful, but if you’ve ever wanted to have a few extras to your menu bar consider these four essentials. All free, they’ll bring a wide variety of function to the menu bar, where you’ll be able to quickly see the weather, make using your computer at night much easier on the eyes, control sleep and screen saver behavior, and even toggle some really useful system functions.

Check out each below, and don’t forget to let us know in the comments if we’re missing a menu bar essential.
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Why You Should Use Mountain Lion’s Spaces | Macworld

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Spaces are a part of Mission Control, your Mac’s built-in feature for getting a visual on every currently open app and window on your computer. As a reminder, you can enter Mission Control in several ways: Click the Mission Control icon in the Dock to display all your spaces, or press Control-Up Arrow, or, if you prefer, perform a three-finger swipe straight up on a multitouch trackpad. I have a hot corner set to display Mission Control as well.If you’ve never used Spaces, you first need to grasp exactly what this feature does. Look at your Mac’s display: You may see a few windows, some overlapping others, and you may spot your Desktop behind them. Sometimes you may move a window here or there to get a better view of something: a website in Safari, a bunch of files on the Desktop, or your Twitter app. Little as those movements might be, they add up—and the sum total is your time.
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Test Password Strength & Generate Strong Passwords in Mac OS X | OSX Daily

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Test Password Strength & Generate Secure Passwords in Mac OS X

Mac OS X includes a great built-in utility that helps you test existing password strength, and also generate new strong passwords. If you’re wondering if your password is secure this is a great safe way to test the quality of it, and it’s also a safe way to create new strong passwords that you know will be considered secure.
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Rip the Audio Track From a Video with QuickTime | OSX Daily

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Though Mac OS X from Lion onward includes built-in encoding tools to perform conversions of video to audio, you can also extract an audio track from a movie by using QuickTime Player. No downloads are necessary, no enabling any buried features, it’s a simple Export setting in QuickTime and you’ll wind up with the audio track as an .m4a file, here’s how:
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Force Empty Trash in Mac OS X When File is Locked or In Use | OSX Daily

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Trash Can Up Side Down

Mac OS X can sometimes throw permissions errors when trying to delete files or empty the Trash. The most common variations of the errors are usually “Operation cannot be completed because the item “File” is in use” or “because the file is locked”, sometimes you can get around this by just quitting open applications or rebooting the Mac, but if you don’t want to do either you can also forcibly remove files through the command line. We will cover two different approaches to this, the first changes a files flags to attempt to unlock the file in question, and the second is a no-nonsense force delete.

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DO NOT INSTALL: Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2 Causes Boot Failures | TidBITS

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Apple yesterday released Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2, with the single comment that it “Adds support for the Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.” Although it’s unclear if all Thunderbolt-equipped Macs are affected, a number of people have reported that installing the update causes a variety of strange boot-related problems (kernel panics, getting stuck at the gray boot screen, “Unexpected error” messages, and more). Regardless of the details, in each case, it seems that the Mac is rendered unusable, even thunderstruck. I’ve now heard from some people for whom the update did not cause any problems, but it’s still unclear what the difference may be between those who are and are not suffering boot failures.

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