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If you haven’t tried Boxee, go to boxee.tv for download it for free. It is available for Mac, Windows, Linux and Apple TV. Once you ‘ve installed it just move around to explore Boxee’s capabilities and be prepared to be amazed.

Boxee is the best way to enjoy entertainment from the Internet and computer on your TV

Until yesterday Boxee was available only for your computer where you had to connect your computer to your TV to enjoy media from the Internet or your computer. However Boxee announced yesterday that they will be announcing Boxee Box tomorrow at CES.

Yeah, that’s right, now you can get all your favorite TV shows & movies from the Internet or your hard drive onto your TV – no PC needed.

Boxee Box features:

• HDMI
• Optical Audio
• RCA Stereo Audio
• WiFi (802.11n)
• Ethernet
• 2 USB Ports
• SD Cart Slot
• RF Remote

As you can see in the list above, Boxee Box comes with a super-remote (named after the super-phones). It’s a two-face remote with a QWERTY keyboard at the back! How amazing is that?!

Likes:

• The secondary tap/click on the Dock icons pops up an nicely transparent menu that looks just perfect.
• Snow Leopard supports three- and four-finger gestures for all mac notebooks with Multi-Touch trackpads.
• In case you did have a Mac notebook with Multi-Touch trackpad you might have heard of MultiClutch. MultiClutch allows you to assign custom keyboard shortcuts in a given app to a given gesture. I personally used MultiClutch mostly for swiping back and forward inside Firefox. Well, Snow Leopard seems to be able to handle these swipes without any other third party application.
• Do you like the Grid View of the Stacks? Now you ‘ll love it! With its native folders support you will be able to open folders in a stack to see all the files inside and quickly return to previous folders.
• I can’t count the times I wanted to look up the date and had to switch to Dashboard or look at the Calendar icon in my hiding-on Dock. The date can now appear alongside the time in the menu bar which is definitely a time saver.
• When I first heard of the new borderless quicktime I knew it would be awesome. At first it may look strange to you but you ‘ll get used to it shortly.
• What a relief. Since I first saw this on the iPhone I wanted it so badly. Address Book now syncs with Google! Hurray!
• “Ok, we are in the Trash now. I need to take this accidentally deleted file back to where it came from. Wait a minute.. Where on earth did it came from?” Has this ever happened to you? No problem. The “Put Back” option inside the Trash gives you the option to retrieve that deleted file and put it back, even if you don’t recall where back is.
• Another cool feature in the new Mac OS X resides inside the Dock preferences. It is a check box that allows you to minimize windows into the application icon rather than to the special section of the Dock. It comes in very handy and you can you can either fire up Exposé or click and hold on any icon in the Dock, to see that both are displaying minimized windows a little bit smaller.
• Are you a Windows user? If yes, don’t worry, no one is perfect. The new Mac OS X enables you to access the files on your Mac OS X partition from Windows. It supports read-only access for security reasons.
• Finally, TextEdit’s automatic spelling correction rocks! If you are a regular TextEdit user you ‘ll love it.

However there are a couple things I don’t like about the new Mac OS X.

Dislikes:

• Firstly, I could not help but notice this awkward, you might say, transition from space to space. I don’t know if you are using Spaces at all (although I think you should) but you will definitely notice this clumsy effect. It lasts for milliseconds but hell yeah it is noticeable. I don’t recall this happening in Leopard. Has anyone else noticed this?
• Last but not least, when Apple introduced Multi-Touch trackpads I noticed that people (including myself) kept pinching (opening and closing) by accident and that caused zooming in and out icons in Finder windows (which was undeniably one of the worst things you could do with your Multi-Touch trackpad). Soon, a software update was released fixing this “bug”. Now, why on earth did this came back with Snow Leopard?

1. defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
   This command will make your Dock at the bottom of your screen look like the Dock when placed at the left/right of your screen, that is 2D.
2. defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
   This is one is one of my favorites. It makes the Dock icons look transparent every time you Hide an application.
3. defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText “/dev/null”
   As you may have noticed, this one changes the login window text. More precisely it adds the text “/dev/null” at your login window somewhere between your credentials and the Apple logo. (You can change the text “/dev/null” to any text you like)
4. SetFile -a V Folder
   Have you ever wanted to remove this folder created, by a third-party application installation proccess, in your tightly organized Documents folder inside you Home folder? This command will make this folder any folder invisible, which means you wont be able to see it using the Finder. However the folder will still be there fully functional. (In case you want to undo this action try SetFile -a v Folder to make that folder visible again)
5. pmset -a hibernatemode 0
   By default, most Macs’ hibernation mode is set such that when your Mac goes to sleep, contents of the RAM remain stored in the powered-on RAM in addition to written to the hard disk. Although this is considered as a “safe sleep mode” it takes quite some time for the contents of the RAM to be written to disk and the laptop to begin sleeping. By setting the hibernation mode to “0″ (currently in sleep mode 3) you will decrease by far the waiting time! (Note that there is a risk of data loss in case of a power failure or in case your battery strangely falls out)
6. defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
   Time Machine is great. It fact, it seems greater now that you can also use it with network volumes (i.e. SMB and NFS shares) besides the old fashioned usb hard drives.
7. gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf source1.pdf source2.pdf… final.pdf
   In short, the above command merges many pdf files into one single file. In order to use the above command you will need to install GhostScript, either from macports or from elsewhere. After that, all you need to do is to  Just replace “source1.pdf”, “source2.pdf”, etc. with the names of your pdf files and set the name of your final pdf file (final.pdf)
8. softwareupdate -dal
   Ever wondered if there is an alternative, simpler way to do the “Software Update…” for your Mac?
9. diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/YourVolumeName
   Obviously, this one repairs the permissions of your specified volume

• Built on Cocoa environment which means improved performance and integration with Mac OS
• A new high-speed file-based database with support for backing up files with Time Machine and Spotlight searching
• Information Rights Management that will help you prevent sensitive information from being distributed to or read by people who do not have permission to access the content

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