Articles in the Quick Tips Category

Mac vs Win: Switching Keyboard Layouts Mac vs Win: Switching Keyboard Layouts
Posted in Quick Tips on 5 August 2008

Want to switch keyboard layouts on the PC or Mac? Here’s how.

Partition drive without re-formatting Partition drive without re-formatting
Posted in Quick Tips on 18 July 2008

How to partition your drive under Leopard without the need to re-format it.

Merge audio and video with QT Merge audio and video with QT
Posted in Quick Tips on 9 July 2008

How to merge audio and video files on a Mac? You have everything you need - Quicktime is your tool of choice.

Want … DVDs … now!
Posted in Quick Tips, Uncategorized on 7 June 2008

I like movies. Sometimes I even love them. Unfortunately, German tv doesn’t show them in their original language, which means I am always stuck with some more or less appropriate synchronization.
If you have ever seen »Armageddon« in German and in English you will know that they just completely screwed the translation up. Many of the [...]

Convert AC3 Audio Files on a Mac
Posted in Quick Tips on 14 April 2008

Mac computers don’t play AC3 files natively so what to do? And how to add them to iTunes so you can sync them to your iPod or Mp3-player of choice?
First thing’s first: How to play those files? You need to download the A52 codec, that will enable Quicktime to play the files. Read the instructions [...]