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CrossOver: A Must-Try Windows Tool for Mac Users

This is a guest article, written by Tim Beyers. Rarely do I need access to Windows programs. For the times when I do, I've switched from a Parallels virtual machine running XP to CodeWeavers' CrossOver for Mac, a virtual environment that simulates the Win32 API, one program at a time. What CrossOver for Mac is CrossOver is built on the open source Wine project, which proposes to re-implement the Windows architecture for Unix. Thus, systems...

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Why can't my computer find blinkw32.dll / binkw32.dll?

What is blinkw32.dl? I am having problems with my PC complaining that it can't find blinkw32.dll (binkw32.dll?) when I try to start up a program....

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Convert WMA from Windows Media Player into MP3 files?

I'm definitely going crazy here. I have a ton of CDs that I've ripped with Windows Media Player 10, but they're all apparently in WMA format, not the MP3 format that my new Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) needs for me to listen to them. I checked and there's no "save as" capability in WMP, so how the heck do I fix this problem?...

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