Archive for the ‘freeware’ Category

Burn CDs/DVDs/Audio CDs with “Burn”

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Mac OS X offers built-in support to burn CDs and DVDs. However, it offers limited options. Therefore we will look at a program called “Burn” to, you guessed right, burn CDs, DVDs and Audio CDs.It’s a freeware application (yes, free!), so we at Mac Kindergarten love it. Let’s take a closer look.

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Instant Messaging with Adium

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

The freeware tool Adium (you see, we are all about good freeware here at the Mac Kindergarten) covers almost all your needs of an Instant Messaging (IM) software.

MSN is very popular in Europe, ICQ still hangs around, Yahoo messenger gets some love, Google talk, MySpace IM and the list goes on and on.
Good news for you! There is one solution to all these clients. No need to install 5 different programs, only because you want to keep up with your buddies.

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Flip4Mac: Play Windows media on your Mac

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

In the last post we covered Perian, a great, free extension to the Apple QuickTime Player to play all kinds of video and audio files.
However, as you might have seen, Perian does not support Windows Media. Don’t be afraid, we are here to help you.

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Perian: Play all kinds of video files

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Mac OS X uses QuickTime as the standard for everything in connection with video (file extension: .mov). However, there are situations, when you receive video files that have a different file format and thus can not be played with the standard setup of Mac OS X.

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