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One thing I love about my Mac is the ability to quickly go into Front Row and watch a movie all from my bed or couch with my handy Apple remote. Well when it comes to the whole "Media Center" experience Front Row gets a B- in my grade book. The seemingly difficult task of making sure you have all of the codecs installed to play all of the movies that you ripped from your DVDs can be quite annoying. Well lets take a look of an Xbox application ported to Intel Macs.

Over here at AccelMac, we have been diligently working on updating the site and decided now is the time to release our laundry list of updates to come.

Here is what has changed so far...

• New Server on Slicehost
• New Application framework (Ruby on Rails)
• New Blogging engine (Mephisto)
• New Media Server (Amazon S3)

And what we having coming up...

• More screencasts, up to 4 screencasts a week
• RSS feeds to track new screencasts
• A calendar of upcoming screencasts
• Forums!
• Completely new web design
• Free access to web-viewable content
• Mobile version of AccelMac for screencasts on-the-go
• Guest screencasters
• Much, much more...

A few of these options will be for paid members only. This is because we have a dedicated server and all of that bandwidth isn't free.

We are thankful to all of you who have supported the site and especially to those who have donated! We will be offering a special membership deal just for you in the coming weeks.

Again, we thank our faithful followers and sincerely hope you'll stick around for the newer, better AccelMac.com!

-Ryan and Chris

What do we do on our computers? We browse the web, read email, and check our RSS feeds. We read and write blogs, listen to and create music and all sorts of other stuff. When we do these things, we tend to launch a couple of apps at a time. If I were browsing the web, I may have Safari, Mail, Adium, and Vienna open. If I were making a few layout changes to AccelMac, I'd have Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Safari, and CSSEdit open. In this post I'll run you through creating your own set of app launchers using a few simple lines of AppleScript. Oh, and I'll throw in a little video just to make it all a lot more fun.

How many times have you left your Mac unattended, wishing there was a seamless way to quickly secure it from harms way? It could be to grab a coffee at work, or maybe get a drink of water before class starts. Whatever the reason, being able to control your Mac just by your presence or lack thereof can be a powerful tool to help your work flow or keep cube warfare from affecting your Mac. With Proximity, I am going to show you how you can lock your Mac just by walking out of the room.

I have seen some ugly icons on amazing applications and changing them can be a bit daunting if you have no idea how to change them. With this QuickTip, I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily change the icon of almost any application, folder, or drive using a simple method with img2icns and a little Finder tweak.

Remote access is all the rage these days. From Amazon’s S3 to .Mac, it seems like everyone is in on the backup bandwagon. This QuickTip will show you how you can easily turn one of those shared hosting accounts into your own personal backup site within Finder.

Here's the first screencast in our QuickTips series. This is a 90-second look into what QuickLook is and how you can use it everyday!