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How To: Show the Library Folder in OS X Lion

by Jeff Weisbein July 22, 2011
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In Apple’s latest release of OS X (Lion), the Library folder is hidden and not accessible by default. For some reason (probably to keep users from causing problems by deleting necessary files) Apple decided to hide it, but what about power users? How do you access the Library folder on Lion if it’s hidden? Well, thankfully, there is an easy way to tell Lion to show the Library folder.

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How To: Customize Adblock Plus for Chrome

by Guest Author July 21, 2011
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With almost 130 million downloads, by far the most popular addon for Firefox is Adblock Plus which reliably blocks all forms of advertisements from the internet to make browsing less distracting, faster and safer. A few months ago, Adblock Plus was ported to the Google Chrome browser as well and in no time the community-driven open-source extension has become the second most popular extension just behind AdBlock by Michael Gundlach.

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How To: Enable Tethering On The iPhone

by Jeff Weisbein June 17, 2009
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A small “hack” has been released into the wild which will allow you to enable tethering on your iPhone running the 3.0 OS without jailbreaking the device.  Full directions for enabling tethering are below: What you need: 1. Mac OS X 10.5 or later 2. Download this carrier settings file from gizmodo.com 3. iPhone OS [...]

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