On of my great complaints about the Aluminum series iMacs, is simply that nothing is a customer replaceable part. Â The white iMac’s that preceeded the aluminum (G5 & X86) were fantastic, with just about every component from the motherboard to the DVD drive, were completely customer replaceable. Â Apple even has instructions online for customers to […]
Myth – “Cookies are Spyware.” Reality – “Cookies are not Spyware. It’s grossly irresponsible for these Anti-Spyware companies to treat cookies like Spyware. REAL Spyware is malicious, machine-hijacking junk that throw pop-ups on your computer, resets your start page, and all sorts of other ugly tricks. A cookie is a text file that has some […]
Myth – “It is safe to use Microsoft’s RegClean.” Reality – “The RegClean utility is no longer supported by Microsoft and has been removed from all Microsoft download sites. This was done for legitimate compatibility reasons with certain applications and Operating Systems. The RegClean utility was originally supplied with Microsoft Visual Basic version 4.0 for […]
The Great Office War, An Epic Battle Between Sales & IT Run Away Box presents’ ‘The Great Office War’, featuring an epic battle between Sales and IT.
What is your indicators for a technology being mainstream? Here’s Webomatica’s view of it…What’s Mainstream Technology? Ask Joe Average, The Spouse, Grandma, and Dave Letterman » Webomatica – Technology and Entertainment Digest Interesting thought floating around whether these social aggregators like FriendFeed will ever go ‘mainstream.’ Of course, that begs the question – what is […]
With Time Warner starting to put bandwidth caps in place, the era of a internet based business model maybe in jeopardy. After all, I certainly am not going to use Go to My PC, or any of the Internet based backup companies now that I have to pay for the account, and then for the […]
I know that the one drawback with iPhoto 2009 as been the inability to simply find pictures that have contain unidentified faces… So I was glad to see from this Mac OS X hints entry, that this process has been simplified… Create an ‘unnamed faces’ Smart Album in iPhoto ’09 While iPhoto 09’s new facial […]
Time Machine is generally a very valuable and useful tool, but like any tool when it breaks you need to be able to fix it. One issue that Time Machine doesn’t seem to resolve well is it’s lock files… I ran into a issue where my mother-in-laws system was reporting “You do not have access […]