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Since I had my Macbook about a month ago, I was always wanted to make myself easier by not buying a portable hard disk for mac only.

On the shelves of some several stores the prices of those Windows portable hard disks and Mac ones have a difference. Face it, portable hard disk for Mac only tends to more expensive as compared to Windows.

I was running low of space from my 80GB Samsung portable hard disk which I bought 5 years ago and I was thinking of getting a new one. On that Samsung hard disk, its on the NTFS file system, an unreadable file system for Mac and I did test it out … lol.

Anyway I went down to nearby store, grab me a low cost 500GB portable hard disk by Imation …. and for you who don’t know Imation uses Seagate hard disks.

I check out the file system and it was FAT32. Sounds familiar. Windows was using FAT 32 before Windows XP (if I might recall), but it doesn’t change my objective … can a Mac read NTFS ?

Well here comes the surprise …..

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Can you do that? Do you want to try?

Well this is possible …… it is not as easy as it seems like installing a new WIndows operating system on a new laptop ( not so direct though). But if you are up for the challenge then note down these steps below.

First let’s get the stuffs prepared for this operation (it ain’t going to be a medical room ).

1. A Dell mini-note notebook with at least 16 GB of SSD of hard disk space
2. A retail copy of Mac OSX - don’t use the oem version that comes with the MacBook
3. An  external USB drive
4. The “Type11 BootLoader” at this link here
5. A blank CD to burn your bootloader

After all of the requirements are satisfied, let’s begin the installation process …..

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The title might sound a bit ridulous to most but I’m not surprised if the are a few of visitors of this years IT Show (which is held at Suntec City) will be doing just that.

To top that, LCD TVs has their prices nose-dived and if someone were to say that they are going to get a 42 LCD TV for thie  laptop display ; I’m not particularly surprised.

Just take a look at the Panasonic TH-42PV8H  below.

This baby is now going down below the retail price of SGD$1299 !

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Being a more of a Windows based user, it is a rarity that I’m covering any MAC stuffs at all on my blog.

Not to undermine any MAC OsX users out there but it’s actually rare that that you see any users carrying a MACBook instead of a Windows based laptop.

Anyway, this is special MAC edition post that I’ve made today and I hope it will be useful for my MAC OsX visitors of this blog. This is a post on the “must have” and  ”good-to-have” applications for those who have MAC OsX on their laptops.

Do note that all the applications I have written below are all available free for download and use.

Let’s get started :-

1. SketchBOX  - This neat application allows you to insert notes to your desktop …. call it a “Note Manager”
2. Tudos - This is a dock expansion for you to store all of your applications.
3. iClockr -  A project and tasks management application.
4. OnyX/Deeper - This is utility tool that will maintain, optimize and personalize your MAC OsX.
5. EverSave - The tool that saves your work during crashes.
6. Burn - A burining application for MAC OSX.
7. AppCleaner -  A small application that allows you to throughly uninstall your unwanted applications.
8.  Carbon Copy Cloner -  A cloning, backup up and synchornize tool for your files.
9. SpotLook - A GUI for your desktop search.
10. Photobook - Facebook photo browser for MAC OsX.
11. FMenu - Facebook evenmt notifier.
12. TwitterPod - Twitter client for MAC OsX.
13. Adium -  Universal Internet Messaging Application
14. Cooloquy - Internet Chat Client.
15. NeoOffice - Office suite for MAC OsX
16. Thunderbird - E-mail application
17. Vienna - RSS/Atom Newsreader
18. Skim - PDF Reader and Note -Taker.
19. iStumbler - Utility to detect Wi-Fi signals.
20. Classic FTP - An easy to use FTP client
21. Firefox 3 - Web browser.
22. Camino - Web browser.
23. Opera - Web browser.
24. Audacity - Sound and audio editing software.
25. QLab - Control audio, video and MIDI 
26. Ultramixer - Professional DJ Software 
27. SimpleSynth - Plug in your MIDI keyboard and play.
28. VLC Media Player - Multimedia player
29. Real Player - Real player for MAC OsX.
30. Jing - Captures images and records video.
31. Frame By Frame - Stop motion movie creation application.
32. Sweet Home 3D - Interior design application software.
33. Blender - 3D content creator software.
34. GIMP - A photoshop alternative and image editor.
35. 7zX - Compression archiever. 
36. UnRarX - Uncompressed RAR files.
37. Perian - Adds all popular video formats for Quicktime.
38. Handbrake - DVD to Mpeg-4 converter
39. Senuti - Transfer iPod songs back to your iMac or MacBook.

This is the list that I can think of at the moment. If you have better suggestions … drop a comment on to this post and share it on this blog.

Hope this lists is sufficient for your needs …. till next post ….

In Windows or linux we are fond of seeing users migrating to OpenOffice.org.

Why?

Simply because it’s open-source and it’s free.

However what about the Apple MAC users?

Based on the OpenOffice.org, the open source community build Neo Office.

Let’s go into further details.

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Here’s a video which I believe you guys might be interested.

Yup, you can hook your notebook computer to your TV, that’s quite common for some but wirelessly connected ……

Enjoy the clip…. comments always welcome.Check This Out.

VideoJug: How To Connect Your Laptop To Your Television