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Be sure to watch the video very closely. You’ll have to look hard but a bit into the video you can actually see a ghost moving about. Of course it could just be a bit of computer hackery, but we’ll buy it and keep with the spirit of the season.

We’ll be installing this new OS on a test machine (an older 1.25Ghz G4 eMac with 1Gb RAM) before we actually install on our “production” machines. This will give us a machine to test software compatibility and stability before we potentially mess up our working PowerBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro. Installing on this lower-end Mac [...]

In my last post, I shared some Google LayOut images I created. The layout I shared utilized clipped, or a shaped, viewports. A couple of folks wanted to know how these are created and I also felt a quick video might be useful for my students as they begin to explore LayOut. Below is a [...]

As readers know, SketchUp is a popular piece of software here at GUOM. The free version is perfect for beginning 3D model creators and the Professional version is the perfect compliment to any Architect, Engineer or Graphic Designer. I use the Pro version regularly and one of the features included is the addition of Google [...]

You can read more about the local competition using the link below. If you are a middle school, high school or college age student who lives in the Evansville, Indiana tri-state area, consider registering! Steven is the co-founder of this competition and also provides the color commentary as the event announcer and host.

Steven B. Combs [...]

In a previous post we mentioned that Google was slowly showing some of their online apps some iPhone love. In a nutshell this simply means that various online apps are being recoded to recognize when an iPhone is being used to access the tool and then presenting the application and in a format that better [...]

Well, we did it. We pre-ordered a Mac OS X Leopard Family pack (5 computers) from the Apple Store (and used our $100 iPhone credit to knock down the price to boot). Estimated delivery is the same as the release date, October 26th, 2007. Wanna know why we’re excited about the new version of the [...]

A picture is worth a thousand words so review the image below to learn more. Yeah…we used Skitch.

Go ahead. Click the button, you know you want to!

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We’re not fans of the bloated Adobe Acrobat Reader software. Sure, it’s a bit faster on a Mac than it is on Windows. But why do you even need to install Acrobat Reader on a Mac when Preview comes pre-loaded with OS X? For those Mac readers not in the know, Preview has all manner [...]

We’ve been posting quite a bit about the tools available from Google. So much so that we though these posts deserved their own archive. You can now read all of our Google news, tips and tutorials on our Google archive at Give Us One Minute. You can also find this area by scrolling down a [...]