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The iPod's alarming options

The iPod and iPhone have the power to put you to sleep and wake you up. We explore both options.

Simplify renaming multiple files in the FinderLearn a couple ways to prevent the Finder from moving files about as you rename them.
Digital Photo: Geotag your photos on-the-goWant to see your photos on a map? With the right hardware, you can capture location data each time you snap the shutter.

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The iPod's alarming options The iPod and iPhone have the power to put you to sleep and wake you up. We explore both options.
Simplify renaming multiple files in the Finder Learn a couple ways to prevent the Finder from moving files about as you rename them.
Digital Photo: Geotag your photos on-the-go Want to see your photos on a map? With the right hardware, you can capture location data each time you snap the shutter.
Macworld Buying Guides: Desktop RAID If you have heavy-duty storage needs, a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is the most cost-effective, mind-easing solution.
Field recording, pre-amps, and Twitter Twitter assists a reader seeking a solution to his field recording problem.
Troubleshooting Back to My Mac Apple's Back to My Mac service, which was supposed to make it easy to remotely access your Mac's files, doesn't always work as advertised. Glenn Fleishman explains how to get it up and running.
Macworld Buying Guides: Portable hard drives A portable hard drive allows you to carry a large amount of data without you, in a device that can easily fit in a bag, backpack, briefcase, or pocket.
Playing go on the Mac The game of go is a strategic board game invented in China more than 2,000 years ago. And the options for playing it on the Mac -- or even the iPhone or iPod touch -- are on the rise. Go enthusiast Kirk McElhearn shows you how to get started.
Disable Support site Help searches in Leopard Learn how to disable the Help system's automatic searching of Apple's Support site when you run a Help system search
Buying advice: Internal Hard Drives With a little bit of handiwork, you can upgrade the hard drive that came with your Mac. Here's what to look for when buying a new internal hard drive.
Party down with iTunes DJ iTunes 8 comes with a rejiggered Party Shuffle feature called iTunes DJ. It works this way.
Auto-enabling Safari's Private Browsing Safari doesn't allow you to configure its Private Browsing feature so that it's always on. Here's a work-around.
Macworld Buying Guides: External desktop hard drives If you’re looking for a quick and painless way to add massive amounts of storage for your music, photos, videos, or system backups, an external hard drive is hard to beat.
Bugs & Fixes: Elgato's support solves EyeTV problems Ted Landau finds a pair of instances where a brief search of Elgato's Web site helped find the answers to problems involving the company's EyeTV Hybrid product for watching live television on your Mac.
Securely erase free space from Terminal Learn how to use Terminal to securely erase free drive space.
Tips for importing existing photos into iPhoto Here are a couple of interesting tips about importing existing images—those already on your Mac—into iPhoto.
Troubleshoot your MacBook Is your laptop lagging? Notebook not its usual self? Ted Landau has some suggestions for solving the most common problems with portable Macs.
Syncing iPhoto libraries You say you liked the idea of syncing iTunes libraries? Well then you'll love learning how to do the same with iPhoto libraries.
Reclaim some drive space from iTunes Learn how to free up a bit of drive space by deleting unneeded iPod and iPhone software updaters.
Ten Facebook tips for power users PC World’s Ian Paul offers ten tips to tweak your profile and get more out of the Facebook social-networking service.