I have a file that I need to send to a friend but it appears my email won’t send it. If i can’t email it then how do i get it to my friend? Signed, Unsatisfied Sender Dear Sir, Your question is not an uncommon one, so rest assured that there are others wondering the same thing. There is an …
Tech4Eleven Re-Visit: Album Art Screen Saver
To celebrate my 100th post, I’d like to revisit a blast from the past… Written on December 8th 2007, the “pre-owned mac-me” wrote about how I envied Mac’s album art screen saver – you know the one that fills your screen with tiny images of all your album’s cover art and flips them in random order in such the mesmerizing …
PC Killed by Fake Anti-Virus? Get Help.
In these times, I’m glad to have a Mac. There’s a certain virus going around and it’s really good. It gets the best of people- and you usually don’t have to do anything to get it. You just have to be on the internet. Trust me- I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it in the last few months. …
Snap windows with Cinch
Disclaimer: Although in my day job I work with PCs, I am Mac guy through and through (thanks to my wife). With the release of Windows 7, however, there are a few features which I wish OSX had. Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone. Built into Windows 7, you can quickly drag a window to the right edge of your screen and …
Macgyver your keyboard with Keytweak
I recently had a co-worker ask me if it were possible to change a key on her keyboard to be something else, something more convenient for her daily spreadsheet handling. I went straight to Google and found Keytweak (for Windows)- the macgyver of all keyboard remapping tools. Why? Because it’s simple- almost DIY. All you have to do, after installing …
Clone(zilla) your HDD for Quick Recovery
An oldy but a goody in the world of system backups. I’ve recently stumbled across Clonezilla as an effective way to not only backup the current state of your harddrive by way of imaging it, but, in my everyday use, an effective way to image and deploy other systems. I recently setup my Time Capsule on my home network and …
The workings of a hackintosh attempt turned windows7 media box
Over the past weeks I have been attempting to “build” a hackintosh (OSX installed on a PC) on the box to the left. In some worlds, this is pretty easy. There are many tutorials out there for specific machines and hardware, but since my machine is not a brand name AND after hours on hours of trying, I finally deemed …
Remember Y2K with a Secure Backup
So yeah, happy new year! While I’m stuck at work for the rest of the night there’s no better time to talk about securing your Mac with a backup than now, whilst remembering the “dawn of Y2K” was just yester-year, when loosing everything was all the rage. I recently happened upon a great deal on a 1TB Apple Time Capsule …
Save Windows Icon Location
I’m all about sharing things I find useful, so writing about this little post about this little app fits right in line. At work, I have all my desktop icons arranged exactly how I want them-“minimally” really, because I hate a cluttered desktop. But every now and then I am working away from my desk, thus need to remote into …
Sync BookMarks Across Browsers
Today at work I really wanted to find a way to sync my Firefox bookmarks with the IE8 Favorites. I figured you could do this with Dropbox but all the stuff I was reading only explained syncing FF profiles, which is not something I wanted to do, just bookmarks. I have to mention first though that I love Firefox on …
About: New Page and How I Did It
UPDATE: Because of the new theme, I have removed the “About” page to which this post refers and am using the default About page, but have decided to keep this post as a tutorial on how it can be done. Click on “About” in the menu bar and you’ll be taken to the new static about me page. About Me …
Digital Coloring
Ok, I’m no proclaimed graphic artist, but with what I do create, I often need to use certain colors that are placed here or there on my screen and I’m not sure what the color is “called.” On my mac, the DigitalColor Meter is built in. It lets me navigate over any color on any window on my desktop. It …
Windows7 Beta on Macbook Pro (2 versions)
I never thought I would install windows on my mac… So I’m a avid slideshow maker and unfortunately, Mac software lacks in this area. On PC I use to use Proshow Gold all the time, and since it is so versatile, but not available for the Mac platform, I decided to use my version of Windows7 Beta and my Mac to …
Ok, So watch out ’cause this Safari is Quick
The new safari 4.0 beta is insanely fast (thanks to my brother for the heads up). What’s new you ask? Well for starters, there’s a new engine under the hood. According to Apple, it’s called the “Nitro Engine:” Using the new Nitro Engine, for example, Safari executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and more than …
See-Net; for Reviews and Purchasing Help
Way back when, I fell upon a site with countless free downloads and reviews on software applications, a not so little site called download.com. At download.com I can search for any type of software I want either by category, popularity, or by guessing. Then I can sort those results by paid, trial, or free, again by popularity, by rating, and …
Free Space. Get it Now!
Mostly Mac: There are many ways to free up space on your hard drive, on mac, your “start up disk.” Let me point out a few: Download and Run Onyx (reviewed in Tricks of the Trade: Current Mac Apps and More Software Means Productivity) Uninstall Apps with AppCleaner (mentioned here More Software Means Productivity) Delete music in iTunes that you really don’t listen …
A Life Well Organized: Firefox Profiler
Today, over sips of Yuban Coffee and set up in a small closet-like office, I decided that my life would be a tad more organized had I created different profiles for my favorite browser, mr. Firefox3. Reasons being… In my default profile, there are good quality sites I have in my bookmarks which I cannot access at work (cause of …
Tricks of the Trade: Current Mac Apps
I’m always reading up on software, tips and tricks for computers. I even compiled a list of my most favorite software tools when I was deep in the Windows enviroment. But since I crossed over into the Macworld, I have a new list of current favorite apps. Before I list what they are, I’d like to mention that I’ve been …
Tuneup Your iTunes Collection
Windows/Mac: If you’re a music lover like I am, then you have tons of songs piled into iTunes 8. And you most likely have songs entitled “Track1, Track2” and so on. You probably even have “Artist-Unknown” instances scattered throughout your iTunes shelves. This bugs you. I know. And it is a very big deal. You can fix it- just Tuneup …
little mac additions (or addictions?)
Reviewed here are two of my favorite Mac Additions: GimmeSomeTune (for iTunes) and Lab Tick.
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