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How to Transfer/Share Google Places Ownership

Google Places is an awesome tool to get maximum exposure for your business online. You can claim it after verifying you’re the owner (either by phone call or postcard) and create relevant information to drive business. However, if you claim it using a personal Google account (like I did), you’ll soon realize its better to…

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How to Open, Edit, and Save AC3 Files for Free

There haven’t been many easy options for editing 5.1 AC3/DTS audio streams with paid or free programs. Even renaming the file with a .WAV extension didn’t work very well with Sony’s SoundForge because it would down-mix 5.1 to just 2 channels and the clip length seemed to vary slightly. I found this solution while trying…

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How to Fix Grayed Out/Transparent Icons in Dock – Mac OSX

I just recently re-installed OSX Snow Leopard 10.6 on my 2007 15″ Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo. After installing all my programs and customizing the dock, some programs were grayed out or semi-transparent (like Firefox or Word) and others weren’t (like iTunes or Safari). It was driving me nuts because I couldn’t figure out what…

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