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HTD Tech Briefs
View all →May 7, 2007
HTD Roundup: Snippets of Tech that I have been playing with
It's been a while since my last post so I figured I would do yet another laundry list of things that I have been doing and technology I have been reviewing: Updated my Blog Theme to Redoable 1.2 - still a work in progress as there are some issues preventing me from showing what I had previously MAMP 1.6 -…
Read more →April 20, 2007
Issues installing Mac Security Update 2007-004
I guess I got lazy and did not follow my normal routine of backing up and repairing permissions PRIOR to installing software updates from Apple's auto updates. So, last night, I simply installed the update from the Software Update program. Well, after rebooting (which took abnormally long - but has been duplicated by others so is expected behavior), I was…
Read more →April 5, 2007
Find your path through Wikipedia using Pathway
Okay Mac/Wikipedia users, this one is for you. Have you ever found yourself lost navigating through the incredible amount of links and cross links within Wikipedia? It's truly hard to use the back button to go back and forth throughout Wikipedia when your exploration is truly multi-layered. You need a breadcrumb trail and a way to link all of the…
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March 26, 2007
NeoOffice 2.1 released – MS Office for Mac replacement
If you are tired of paying for Microsoft Office for Mac, you have had an alternative for some time, that of OpenOffice. The "problem" with OpenOffice is that you have to have X11 (a windowing environment) installed on your Mac. And it looks like a "port" from Windows. Enter NeoOffice. NeoOffice was updated to 2.1 on March 26th, 2007. NeoOffice…
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March 22, 2007
Great MadTV piece – Fun with Apple, Steve Jobs and …
A friend showed me this YouTube video and I must say that it is one of the more clever MadTV pieces I have ever seen! Fun with Apple, Steve Jobs and I won't give out the spoiler... Enjoy! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHty_S0TU0] [For some reason, the YouTube image might not appear above. The direct link is here.]
Read more →March 14, 2007
Save precious hard drive space on your Mac
If you are like me, disk space is a precious commodity. I tend to download gobs and gobs of software and never clean it up. Pictures and MP3's can suck up a lot of space on your computer as well. How do you manage your disk space? Well, I found a great little (free) application that can potentially save you…
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March 9, 2007
Quick way to test if you need DST patch
Ok, you are running out of time!!! Literally! Thanks, Kris, for the comment on my previous post. Here is a site that you can just point your browser to in order to find out if you need to apply a patch for DST or not. It's really easy to do, trust me. Click here to test! If you are OK,…
Read more →March 9, 2007
Check your server DST settings using PERL
The new Daylight Saving Time is almost upon us. My company is losing money now on all of the IT updates that we have to do (but that is another story, in fact, I read today that some Economic Analysts now think that the change will not save energy/money because while people won't be using as much electricity in the…
Read more →February 21, 2007
Change to Daylight Saving Time – the new Y2K?
Daylight Saving Time is changing this year, due to some decisions made in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is one month and begins for most of the United States at: 2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March to 2 a.m. on the First Sunday of November Daylight Saving is supposed to save…
Read more →January 10, 2007
Apple Front Row, Griffin AirclickUSB and Griffin Proxi – Triple Play
Back in mid-November, 2006, I wrote up how to get Apple's Front Row to work on older macs using a program and instructions outlined on AndrewEscobar.com. The only disadvantage to the "hack" was that it didn't magically have a remote control materialize out of the air after installation. The way that I left it on my previous post, I wanted…
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January 9, 2007
My MacWorld 2007 – SF Predictions
So, 5 minutes before the Steve Jobs' Keynote, here are my predictions: - iPhone (PodPhone is what I'm calling it) - Tablet Laptop - 802.11n - new airport extreme following the new protocols - iLife 2007 - Leopard announcement - coming Q1 - New iPod with Bluetooth built in That is it for now...I will post back with what Steve…
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January 3, 2007
Well…that didn’t last long!
So much for my attempt to write 1 review a day...guess the holiday vacation blew a pretty big hole in that one. I will get back to that when I have time. Recently though, I have been tweaking my Tmoble MDA. I installed a new "cooked" ROM on it. But now (and I'm not sure if it is related), my…
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