Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
If you're an RSS reader, please take a moment to view the site itself and take a look at the new design. I've been having some (to put it lightly) "issues" getting the template to display properly, and I think I have it worked out now - but your help ...
Posted in Other | 15 Comments »
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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Posted in Bittorrent | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
This overview will describe some of the changes that have appeared in the new (Leopard) version of OS X's file manager, Finder. And I've intentionally left out the "Cover Flow" stuff, as its already been talked about to death.
Posted in Mac | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
I've been waiting for them to roll out the "version 2" features. Well, they finally have - so now I can drop the service. Here's why -
Posted in Blogging | 11 Comments »
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
If you installed OS X 10.5 (Leopard) as an 'update' (ie. all of your Tiger apps remained installed) and had previously customized your Finder toolbar, you may be missing out on a very neat new feature, Quick Look. This overview will show you how to add it to your toolbar ...
Posted in Mac | 5 Comments »
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
After using Conference Call Omni for a while, I found that it used a bit too many system resources and it took a bit too long to update (often 12+ hours after a game had finished). So I went back out on the hunt for another, and came up with ...
Posted in Mac | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
The following collection of lies, misdirections and legal-speak is typical of Comcast. I'd like to take a moment to point out a couple of the larger errors in this statement. The post/statement itself was taken from the Comcast Help forums which require a Comcast uesrname/password to view.
There have been ...
Posted in Bittorrent | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
It appears as though Google has decided to enable IMAP for some Gmail (and Google Apps for Your Domain) accounts. As it happens, all of my Google Apps for Your Domain accounts now have IMAP enabled, so I'm playing around with the settings and changes now.
IMAP on Gmail is ...
Posted in Email | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Update: as a couple of folks have pointed out, Google has once again increased the storage size of Gmail to 4.23GB, just a day or two after the increase to 3.6GB.
Thanks Google!
Posted in Email | 10 Comments »
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Using Hoverdash, you can select any of your Dashboard widgets and have them run directly on your desktop.
Posted in Mac | No Comments »
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Using DeliCount, a free program created by the How-To Geek, you can find out how many times your site - and all of the pages on it, has been bookmarked on the popular social bookmarking service del.icio.us.
Posted in Blogging, Windows | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
So now that you've installed and setup Growl, you might want to download some additional styles, if none of the included ones really catch your eye. Or, if you've been using the same one for ages (guilty) and want to mix it up a bit.
Posted in Mac | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Using coconutBattery, a free program from Coconut Software, you can watch as your battery performance gets worse over time.
Posted in Mac | 5 Comments »
Monday, October 15th, 2007
In no particular order, here are my favorite posts from Blog Action Day 2007.
The Simple Secret to Making a Greener World - best sentence/thought: "Relearning skills pushed aside by thoughtless consumerism"
Read/Write Web's Top 35 Environmental Blogs
Lifehacker: Easy Ways to Live Greener - I might give the ...
Posted in Blogging | 5 Comments »
Monday, October 15th, 2007
I've never used an OS with Xfce as the desktop environment. So I installed KateOS 3.6 for the heck of it. The rest of this post contains a bunch of screenshots to give you an idea of what the desktop is like.
Posted in Linux | 3 Comments »
