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 Worldstart Computer Tips 11-18-2011Having trouble viewing parts or all of the newsletter? View the entire newsletter here!  In The News 11-18-2011 Your Weekly Update In The World Of Technology
Your Music: Brought To You By The Cloud Earlier this week Apple activated its much anticipated iTunes Match service. The service, which comes with a price tag of $25 per year, allows users to store their iTunes purchases in the cloud, as well as matching and backing up all tracks not purchased through iTunes. So how does it work? iTunes Match will take time to search for your library and match up your files with songs that are already in the iTunes store. This means you can play music at high quality, even if your current files are lower quality. Existing iTunes store purchases are also thrown into the mix. The songs that aren’t found in the iTunes store (such as that polka/jazz/heavy metal demo CD from the guy down the street) can then be uploaded to the cloud, making them available from any iTunes or iOS device. You can then either stream or download these songs to your computer or mobile device. iTunes Match is limited to 25,000 non-iTunes tracks. If you have a supermassive music library, Match may not be a good choice for you.
Razrs – Not Just For Shaving Remember the Motorola Razr? Many of us do because after its release in 2004, it became one of the most popular phones to hit the market. Now seven years later, Motorola is trying to duplicate the Razr’s success by introducing it to the world of smartphones. The Droid Razr, available through Verizon Wireless with a price tag of $300 (with contract), was released just one week ago on November 11. It brings back a bit of familiarity, bringing back the slim design that made its predecessor so popular. The Razr features a large touch screen and runs Android. However the newest Android update, Ice Cream Sandwich, will not be available until next year for the Razr. With a width of just a third of an inch and a weight of only 4.5 ounces, it also proves to be the thinnest smartphone yet. The small size may have many people interested in the new phone, though the hefty price tag may have other people think twice.
The Secret World Of Google We all know that Google is always cooking up something new, but what other ideas lie behind the curtain? The New York Times recently reported on the existence of Google X, a secret lab where all sorts of new and crazy ideas are being cooked up. Secret lab? Crazy experiments? I’m intrigued. It seems as if Google is taking itself beyond the realm of computers and mobile devices and is trying to create a bigger influence in the world of technology. Some ideas that have been spoken about include space elevators. These elevators include a cable attached to earth that would carry things into space, essentially removing the need for rocketed space travel. Another idea includes driverless cars, something that Google has already implemented in California last year. Google is looking to put more effort into this idea and make it into a business. None of this is official yet, as Google has yet to make a statement about it. Regardless of how official it is, it’s hard to hide the exciting possibilities that Google X may come up with. ~Mike
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Many of us cannot wake up without a cup of tea/coffee in hand. Some cannot do without a newspaper. And a few others cannot do without a Dilbert in their inbox. With one cool website, you can now follow all your favorite comic strips online, and in the comfort of your inbox. First off, following a cartoon is the same as following a blog through RSS (Rich Site Summary) feeds. When subscribing to RSS feeds, you get the latest comics from the sites you are interested in, be it Dilbert, Dork Tower, Pearls Before Swine or Geek & Poke. Some sites that will help you facilitate that include dilbert.com, gocomics.com and xkcd.com, among others. Just click on the ‘RSS’ button at the bottom of the Dilbert site, and FeedBurner will make it easy for you to receive content updates in My Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines, and other news readers. On other sites like gocomics.com, just click on ‘Subscribe free’ or ‘Email me this daily’ button and you are good to go. Similarly, on rabbit-comics.org, you can subscribe comics to your inbox by just sending an email to the ID specified on the ‘Subscribe’ page.
It’s like getting live updates from your favorite cartoon channel, except it’s on the Internet and on topics relevant to you. A consolidated and shortened form of news that is emailed to you lets you get updates so you know what to follow up on when you have more time. The best part? You don’t have to subscribe to each site’s newsletter, which eliminates spam and junk piling up in your inbox.  How to Use the Ribbon in MS Office If you made the transition to the Ribbon User Interface when Office 2007 was released, the upgrade to Office 2010 really wasn’t a big deal for you. There are changes, but not in a way that gives you that “I’m lost” feeling so many people felt with their beginning efforts in Office 2007. But, if you’re one of the many who didn’t use Office 2007, and jumped right to Office 2010, then you were in for a bit of a shock. OK, maybe “a bit of a shock” is a little to mild of a phrase for some of you… in some cases, I’m betting that overwhelmed may work as a better description of how you feel. If this is you, then I have a resource to show you today, that may speed up the adaption process for you. Just as they did when Office 2007 was released, Microsoft has created interactive guides that will allow you to choose a command from an Office 2003 program and then it shows you were to find it in Office 2010. Click here to read the rest of this Office Tip! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!)  Speed Up and Slow Down Your Music and Movies I’m on this new efficiency craze lately, and it has carried over to my time on the computer. Did you know that you can still comprehend information from audio and videos even when it is being played two times or even three times as fast? Lately, when I want to listen to a lecture or audio book, I download it and increase the playback speed. Using this little tip, I can watch a one hour lecture in only 20 minutes! If you’d like to utilize my trick, then keep on reading. We’ve mentioned the VLC media player before here at WorldStart, because it is compatible with nearly every audio and video file type. But did you know that it also contains a super nifty playback speed control feature? If you don’t already use VLC player, you will need to download it from their website. Simply select Download VLC and follow the on-screen instructions. When VLC opens, you are greeted with the following interface.
Click here for the rest of this tip! So, you want to find a new job or you need to find one and you don’t know where to begin your search. Well, now you do! Start your search here at Indeed, where you get to search job sites, newspapers, associations, career pages and much more, all in one place. How does it work? It’s easy! You can search by your location and get all the listings for your area. Or, you can search with a keyword and your location to narrow down the results a little more. If that isn’t specific enough, you can click the Advanced Search link found under the Find Jobs button and tailor your search even more. You can also check out the Preferences link under the Find Jobs button and change how your results are displayed. To learn more about the site and how it got started, as well as, what its purpose is, check out the About section. The Blog section feels more like a news section to me, as the blog was about what was happening recently with Indeed. You can check out the Forum sections for job related topics and a chat room as well. I used to work as a cashier and I know the turnover rate is high, so I decided to use “cashier” as my example search. There were a lot of results, especially now that everyone and their brother are hiring for seasonal help. What I really liked though is that the newest additions to their database were marked as new, so there was no doubt as to whether or not the ads were recent. So, if you’re looking for work or a career change, this is a great place to get started! ~Amanda "Everyone Wants My Earbuds!"
And You Get THESE Phenomenal Earbuds! Noise Reduction! Extra Bass! If you've ever tried to listen music with hard plastic earbuds, you've probably had the same gripes that I've had with 'em. Yeah, they're lightweight but the trouble is your ear has to be just the right size to fit them. You have to jam them in your ear - hoping and praying that they stay. But they always end up falling out... so you have to jam 'em so far into your ear that they're REALLY uncomfortable. PS - At this price, might want to consider picking up 2 or three of these so you have one at your computer, one in the car and one you can stick in your pocket or purse for walks or bike rides!
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It can all be found here: http://www.backcountrygallery.com/wallpaper/ ~ Steve
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OS X Daily: Quickly Search the iTunes Store & iOS App Store from Anywhere in iTunes
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- Quickly Search the iTunes Store & iOS App Store from Anywhere in iTunes
- Minecraft for iPhone & iPad Released
- Run Skyrim in Mac OS X with an Unofficial Port
- Run Mac OS X Lion 10.7 in a Virtual Machine on Top of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Steve Jobs was Asked by Creator of LSD to Help Promote Therapeutic Uses of the Drug
- iPad 2 vs Kindle Fire [Video]
- Show All System Preferences from a Quick Menu in OS X Lion
| Quickly Search the iTunes Store & iOS App Store from Anywhere in iTunes Posted: 17 Nov 2011 02:17 AM PST
You can quickly search the iTunes Store and iOS App Store from anywhere within iTunes, all you have to do is hold down the Option key while hitting Return in the standard search box. That’s really all there is to it, with Option+Return you search all purchasable content through the online stores whether its an iPhone app, movie, song, artist, anything, rather than the iTunes local media library.
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| Minecraft for iPhone & iPad Released Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:27 PM PST
The highly anticipated official version of Minecraft for iPhone and iPad has been released to the iOS App Store. For those who don’t know, Minecraft is a virtual sandbox building game with a focus on creating your own worlds and structures that are subject to in-game physics. Thanks to basic electrical circuits and logic gates, some extremely elaborate creations can be built in your own virtual world, it’s kind of like virtual Legos on crack, and is known to be very addictive.
Here’s the official description from the App Store:
There are a ton of nonsensical knock-off titles trying to capitalize on the Minecraft name on the App Store, so be sure you either click directly through a verified link or search for “Minecraft – Pocket Edition” , making sure it’s by Mojang.
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| Run Skyrim in Mac OS X with an Unofficial Port Posted: 16 Nov 2011 07:05 PM PST
For the truly dedicated, you can now run Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim directly in Mac OS X thanks to the Porting Team’s unofficial Mac port of the freakishly popular game. The game is played either through a Cider wrapper or Wineskin, the latter being easier but the former apparently having better performance, but in both cases you’ll need to own a Windows copy of the game to get it working (frankly the game is going to run a lot better natively in Windows through Boot Camp anyway), leaving this in the realm of determined die-hards. Neither the Cider or Wineskin methods are the easiest thing in the world to get working, and if you have no experience with this sort of thing you should probably just buy the game for Xbox 360, PS3, or stay with booting into Windows on your Mac. Nonetheless, if you’re committed, here’s what you’ll need:
If you run into problems getting it setup or if it’s not running that well, the Porting Team forums are very helpful to sort things out. Below is a screenshot of the game in OS X from their forums:
My advice? You’re buying the game for Windows anyway to get the thing to work on a Mac, just run it in Boot Camp and get the best performance possible.
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| Run Mac OS X Lion 10.7 in a Virtual Machine on Top of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:59 AM PST
If you don’t want to deal with dual booting between Lion and Snow Leopard, another option is to run Mac OS X Lion in a virtual machine atop an older 10.6 Snow Leopard installation. This is not supposed to work with 10.6 without a quirky configuration, but it does, and it’s easy to do. For the record, this also works in OS X Lion if you want to run a VM of Lion atop Lion for testing purposes or whatever, that is also perfectly acceptable in the EULA. Requirements:
VirtualBox and Parallels may work also if you’re installing Lion on top of an existing OS X Lion base, but it doesn’t seem to work with Lion on 10.6.
Installing OS X Lion in a Virtual Machine Over Snow LeopardProceed to install VMWare as usual, and make sure you have the OS X Lion installer .app somewhere that’s easy to access. Everything else is just as straight forward:
Don’t expect the virtual machine to perform at nearly the same level as a native installation, but it works if you’re in a pinch for quick testing. If you have a real need to run both Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 for app compatibility, you’d be best served using the dual boot method we mentioned before for performance reasons. Enjoying the whole virtualization thing? We’ve covered a few more OS’s that you can run atop Mac OS X (or Windows and Linux for that matter), and they’re all free:
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| Steve Jobs was Asked by Creator of LSD to Help Promote Therapeutic Uses of the Drug Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:47 AM PST
The late Steve Jobs has always been unapologetic about his usage of LSD, openly proclaiming his experiences with the drug were some of the “most important things I have done in my life” and even criticizing Bill Gates for not indulging in the substance. Those statements didn’t go unnoticed by Albert Hofman, the man who created LSD in a Swiss lab in the 1930′s, who wrote Steve Jobs a letter in 2007 asking for help to promote the chemical for therapeutic studies. That letter was obtained by Yahoo News, and is repeated below:
The last line of the letter relates to Albert Hofmann’s famous book “My Problem Child“, which discusses his accidental discovery of LSD and how its misuse drove it to become illegal and eventually fuel the 1960′s counterculture movement. There’s no word on if Steve Jobs responded to the request. Albert Hofman passed away a year after sending the letter in 2008, and Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011.
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The Kindle Fire is out, but if you’re like me you’ve sat on the sidelines to wait for reviews and videos of performance before pulling the buy trigger. Those are starting to appear now, and while it’s obvious the iPad 2 blows the Kindle Fire away in speed and overall utility, the Fire holds up reasonably well considering it’s just $199. How does it stack up to the iPad 2? The video below from iDownloadblog is a pretty fair comparison for some basic tests of booting, loading web pages, and streaming videos: We also embedded The Verges video review of the Fire below, it’s not a comparison but it’s a good quick look at the device: Is the Kindle Fire worth buying? Hard to say but it certainly looks interesting. Judging by the overall excitement and the cheap price, it’s seemingly guaranteed to be the next most popular tablet, although just how much share (if any) it takes from the iPad remains to be seen.
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| Show All System Preferences from a Quick Menu in OS X Lion Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:25 AM PST Rather than rearranging all of the System Preferences to be sorted alphabetically, you can access a quick pull-down menu of all the panels that is sorted by name.
Try it yourself, access System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click and hold on “Show All” to see the full list of preference panes available sorted by their name. This trick is limited to Mac OS X Lion. Thanks for the tip and screenshot James
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