If the only thing that makes you want to have a QuickTime Pro is the full screen video, you may try this script that will let you have it without paying for the Pro version.
1. Launch Apple Script Editor
2. Enter this exactly as follows…
tell application “QuickTime Player”
present front movie scale screen
end tell
3. [...]

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Many new Mac users are slightly disappointed that Cmnd+Tab (Ctrl+Tab on Windows) is actually switching between Applications and not between the windows, as they used to do in the Microsoft world.
But many didn’t know that you can actually switch between windows within an application by pressing Cmnd+~ (tilde).
Problem here is that you have [...]

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Checking my site statistics, I’ve noticed there are quite a few hits from search engines querying ‘switch off iMac screen‘ or ‘turning off iMac display‘ . The iMac owners would like to be able to switch off their screen while the computer remains on, keeping the open processes running, such as video encoding, P2P traffic, [...]

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MacDailyNews writes an interesting article about John C Dvorak’s opinion on Macs and Windows Vista. A couple points make me actually wonder if John is just teasing Mac users to generate traffic for his blog (hmmmm, can’t remember that link somehow now) or is he really smoking some bad crack.
Dvorak foments, “From what I can [...]

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Canadian company Matias has released a keyboard with a USB 2.0 dock in addition to two USB 1.1 ports.
The USB 2.0 dock is ideal for use with MP3 players, USB flash drives, digital cameras, and other USB or USB 2.0 devices. This is particularly handy with MacMini if you need to connect your iPod [...]

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How do we know if our dollar is a good value here in Australia? Well, we check how much an iPod Nano costs and we compare it with the price of the same elsewhere.
Just over 20 years ago, The Economist magazine launched an index based on a McDonalds hamburger – the Big Mac index [...]

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