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It's beyond my imagination why Mac doesn't offer a physical eject button for DVD drive.

I put in a blank DVD disc for burning data. A popup dialog popped up asking me what to do. I just hit escape. I opened finder. There's no the DVD drive being mounted.

Searching around, finally found the working solution: Open Disk Utility and choose the disc you wish to eject in the left-hand pane, then click on the Eject button.

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I've been used to running Anti-spyware, Anti-virus, Firewall Programs on Windows. Mac is "supposed" to be more secure, but I always want to be safe than sorry. Mac is getting popular, so it will become a popular target for virus and spyware writers. Also, Leopard's built-in firewall, which is not activated by default, sucks.

so I did some research, and started using the following free programs for Max OS X Leopard:

• ClamxAV Open Source anti-virus - The version on Mac doesn't let me scan my disk in one click cause it said it'd cause problems. I had to select folders to scan instead. Also, I needed to set up the preferences to monitor scan with progress bar, scan email files, alert on virus detection, and the schedule to do daily virus definition update and scan. These things should have been set up as default.

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Apple released new generation of MacBook a couple days ago. Amazon has slashed its price on "previous" generation of MacBook and offers rebates as well.

Here's a trick outlined by rabidrobin at SlickDeals

1. Create a new account
2. Go to the product page for an applecare for macbook pro
3. scroll down until you find the "I Own it" checkbox, and check it
4. At the top of the screen, click on Recommendations
5. Go through the list of 20-30 or so recommended items and click "Not Interested" for the ones that aren't macbook pros
6. Look in your goldbox, I was able to buy the mac pro 2.2 ghz today but sometimes it may take overnight

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