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ATI graphics card are quite widespread on Mac these days and overclocking fans are always trying to squeeze more and more power from their ATI chips.

It’s not clear how much, but a 12% speed increase should be reached without melting your beloved Mac board.

Looks like the download link for the accelerator software is dead, this is the working one.

The full story is available here.

Read carefully everything before trying it! I decline every responsibility about hardware damage, war or any other bad thing that may happen to you or your Mac…

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CHM Help files are quite common and useful, not just for Windows users.
I know there’s PDF for some sort of universal file format, but sometimes the file source it’s not available or it’s either more browsable in CHM.

I still use a PHP reference guide in CHM since I know where to find things almost everywhere.

Here comes Chmox, from trusted sourceforge, built using Cocoa, WebKit and chmlib.
Version 0.3 dates back to February 2005, but works fine: reads and allows searching/browsing of all CHM files I’ve got.

It’s a rising question and it’s getting more and more weird answers…

This time News.com tries to put things in the right perspective.

That simple question deserves a simple answer.
But there isn’t one–at least not right now. Reaching the nirvana of running the two most popular desktop operating systems on one machine is a lot harder than you might expect.

I’ll seek for more hints at this issue.

Check here

Astonishing.
The new MacBook Pro redefines the Powerbook line and portable computing as well, the new iMac just gets the iMac even better.

Of course the MacBook Pro gets more flashlights since it’s the very star of the show.
Super CPU with dual core, super graphics with ATI Radeon X1600, built-in iSight and Front Row.

More info to write on in the next days.
More good reasons to switch.

It’s all in the air, tonight…
We’re all waiting for Steve to announce something new at MacWorld.
New Mac minis as full-fledged digital hubs and brand new iBooks are more likely to be announces.
Get ready!

The coder name is quite frightening (‘Murder Thoughts’), but this tiny utility comes in really handy.

I’ve been using it recently as follows.
I had to convert a .DMG (proprietary Apple disc image format) to a .ISO standard format, ready to be burned to CDs/DVDs from any Windows CD burning software (or Apple-based as well).
Damage Isolation (get the name?) does just this.

Using Damage Isolation is easy. Just open the application, and drop a file onto it’s icon in the dock. It doesn’t require any configuration, but you can alter any of the settings you wish by clicking the Preferences button in the main window.

It’s really tiny (just 144 KB), OS X compatible – from 10.2.x up.

Ok, it’s switching back and forth from the Mac, but it adds a great deal of integration with all other platforms.

The coder’s real name is Phil Nelson.

Thanks Phil, great (little) tool.

Get Damage Isolation here.

We all love Skype but there’s nothing wrong about looking at some alternative.

Here comes from France, WengoPhone from Openwengo: free, open source and SIP-standard compliant.

Right now it’s just for Windows, but the Mac OS X version is coming anytime soon.

Click here to check OpenWengo for yourself.

A small hint for a big problem, how do you force Spotlight to re-index an entire volume, just like an external FireWire disk?

Do you want to re-index a file or folder—or even an entire volume—for Spotlight?
Just do this:

From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
Click Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab.
Drag a file, a folder, or even an entire volume (your hard drive) to the list.
Remove the item or volume you just added.
Spotlight will re-index the contents of the item you initially dragged to the list

That’s all! The Spotlight icon in the upper right corner will start flashing and reindexing will begin!

S. Wildstrom reports on what is common wisdom among Mac user and just legend elsewhere…

Is Mac OS X immune from viruses? No, but it’s a lot less virus-prone, at least until now…

Thanks to its BSD roots, Apple’s support, community reporting quickly vulnerabilities?

All of them, maybe.

OS X offers inherently better security for several reasons. The most important is that it was designed with relatively little concern for compatibility with earlier versions, while Windows is full of compromises so that it works with older and less secure operating systems.

Check for full story here.

BusinessWeek argues whether a brand new iMac G5 is worthwhile or not.
Why not just wait the next Intel-based Macs?

Because it’s funny, that’s all.

“So what makes the iMac so cool? The software clearly sells the hardware here.”

Read more here the article.

The features list is really impressive, so just download it and start tweaking your Mac OS X (10.1 to 10.4).

The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don’t need administrative privileges to use the tool. With this design, it is no problem to use TinkerTool in professional networks where users have restricted permissions. The program will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.