Dec 28

Did you know that if you hold down SHIFT-COMMAND-4 you can take a picture of any part of your screen? Press SHIFT-COMMAND-4 and your cursor will turn into a cross-hair. (Try it right now!) Click and drag over anything and you can take a picture. It’s how most of the small pictures on this website are made.
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Nov 05
Christmas lights – my mac is controlling them via virtual pc with lightorama.
Check them out here
http://bit.ly/7NB2KP
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Apr 01

So your old laptop is a bit long in the tooth – working well but the hard disk space is all used up.
Here’s a few ways to get some extra space.
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Sep 19

To make a backup of your computer that is useful if your computer crashes you need to:
- 1. Buy an external firewire hard drive
- 2. Format the hard drive
- 3. Download some backup software
- 4. Backup your Hard Drive
- 5. Run the backup software often
Now let me explain those steps in more detail.
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Apr 15
Here’s a list of some programs that you can download for free from versiontracker.com or find via a google search to supplement the software that comes with your mac. Continue reading »
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Tagged with: basics • software
Jan 21
Switching to OS X from a PC is a big change, It’s a big enough change going from OS9 to OS X. So here are a some of my random thoughts on the transition. Continue reading »
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