Jun 26

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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May 01

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So your old laptop is running a bit slowly. It might be that the hard drive is too small and all your hard disk space is all used up. Here’s a few ways to recover some extra Hard Drive space. Basically there are lots of files you can probably get rid of, and here’s now to find them.

You don’t even need to be totally free of space to do this, did you know that you should never fill your hard drive to more than approx 80% capacity or it will slow down performance?
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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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Sep 19

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To make a backup of your computer that is useful if your computer crashes you need to:

  1.   1. Buy an external firewire hard drive
  2.   2. Format the hard drive
  3.   3. Download some backup software
  4.   4. Backup your Hard Drive
  5.   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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Nov 17

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This one is quite an advanced tip.
If you right-click on a file you get a little menu, and if you select ‘open with’ you get a list of all the programs you can open a file with.
After a while of installing new versions of programs, this list can become quite long! Continue reading »

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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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