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When you first booted up your Mac, you would have been welcomed by a classy presentation with "Welcome" written in a bunch of foreign languages.  Unsure what these videos are? Watch the demos at the bottom of this article.  If you want to watch this video again, follow these steps for Tiger and Leopard.

Open up finder and Click Go->Go to folder. Type this in:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant/Contents/Resources/TransitionSection.bundle/Contents/Resources/

A folder should pop up, and two files should be inside:

intro.mov
intro-sound.mp3

As you can see, unfortunately they are two separate files. To fix this, simply put them both in iMovie and watch it that way. You may need to trim the audio track as it may go for longer than the video!

For a demo, here are two video files (click the image of the video you wish to see):
 

Thanks to Annie for the Tiger video and audio file.

Photo Booth, whilst having no ‘useful’ purpose, can be a fun tool for kids and adults alike. With version 2.0.1 the program gives the user the ability to use different backgrounds; such as fish, the Eiffel Tower or one of your own pictures. These pictures however sometimes look distorted or have your original background start to appear in the photo.

Here are the five most common reasons for this:

1. Your background is too dark. Turn on a light or open the curtains, let the camera pick you up properly.

   More common problems found after the jump…
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 Leopard has a fancy new feature for Dashboard: Webclips. Webclips allows you to view many webpages at once, or parts of them, through dashboard. However, one feature that is missing is refreshing the webclips automatically. This requires you to update them manually, and here’s how:

Click once on the webclip you wish to update.

Press Command+R.

The webclip should now have updated.