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How to Watch DVDs from Different Regions on Your Mac

Andrew Fishkin,  Articles, Best Tools for the Job, The Mobile Mac - 2008.12.04 - Leave a comment -

2008 – I’ve written on this topic a few times before, and those articles continue to draw extremely high hit-counts despite the constant advance of technology. As it’s been well over a year since my last look at the subject and the tools available to Mac users have changed a bit, I thought it was time for […]

Region Free DVD Viewing Options for Intel and PowerPC Macs

Andrew Fishkin,  Articles, Best Tools for the Job, The Mobile Mac - 2006.09.12 - Leave a comment -

2006 – A while back, I wrote an article about making your Mac’s DVD player region free. Much has changed with the introduction of Intel Macs, enough that an update is in order.

How to Make Your Mac Region Free for DVD Viewing

Andrew Fishkin,  Articles, Best Tools for the Job, The Mobile Mac - 2006.06.23 - Leave a comment -

2006 – There is one laptop upgrade that gives no performance benefit, but it adds a long-desired feature of frequent travelers, which is a swap of the built-in Combo or SuperDrive for a different model, because Apple’s PowerBooks and MacBooks use Matsushita (Panasonic) optical drives, and it’s, impossible to flash firmware on these drives.

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