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Some blog posts are interesting, some are helpful, others are just downright life changing. Lifehacker’s recent post entitled How to Master Your Digital Media with VLC is somewhere between the second and last item. In a nutshell, Lifehacker Senior Editor Adam Pash shares 4 interesting uses of VLC for tasks other than simply playing media [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been using Google Docs for sometime now and am growing to love it more and more each day. Being able to have access to important word-processing and spreadsheet files from any computer has been a life-saver on many occasions. I am also finding it extremely useful when combined with my iPhone (although this is [...]

It’s been quite some time since I tried Flock. I took a look at it way back around version 0.7 and found it interesting, but not ready for public consumption. For those not in the know, Flock is a browser. I know what you’re saying, “don’t we have enough browsers?” You would be correct and [...]

We’ve begun using Safari again lately and one of the tools that brought us back was the wonderful Inquisitor 3. Inquisitor 3 claims to be “Spotlight for the web” and we tend to agree. Simply download the installation file, restart Safari and begin searching using the Safari search box. Inquisitor 3 will auto-complete your search [...]

If you are not familiar with Joost, check out their web site to find out why we are excited. We’ll be sure to complete a full write up at a later time. First our Apple TV and now Joost. There just isn’t enough time to watch all this video content. Now that we have been [...]

Google released the beta of their Google Desktop for Mac today. So why would you want to install Google Desktop when OS X already includes Spotlight for searching? So you can experiment with all of those wonderful Google search tips we showed you in a previous article, of course. Now you can view the results [...]

We’re not big fans of widgets here at GUOM. Sure we have the occasional moment when we want to know the weather as we head out the door, but other than that, we don’t use the F12 key much. We’ve even disabled widgets on our eMac to save precious system resources. There just hasn’t been [...]

As my family and friends can attest, I’m a free software junkie. If I hear of some new free software, especially Mac software, it almost always warrants an install and trial period. Some apps are worth my minute, some of them are not and are quickly removed. GUOM will be the place I share my [...]