“Apple” collection
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…
Read more →December 21, 2006
AppleJack for OSX (Geek Alert!)
Next in line is a piece of software for all of the Mac users out there. I'm sure that you take good care of your mac from a maintenance perspective (you do, right?)...you install the Apple Software Updates, periodically run the Disk Repair utility, repair your permissions, and generally don't abuse your system. There are lots of tools that you…
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December 20, 2006
LogMeIn.com (Hamachi) Part 2
Since I already wrote about Hamachi, and I must say that I am really growing to like it, I figured that I should do a little write up of Hamachi's new parent company, LogMeIn.com. But first, a couple of new notes for Hamachi. I was able to finally access my Windows shared directories from a Mac. First you need to…
Read more →December 19, 2006
Software review a day (?)
It seems like recently, probably due to the holidays, that I have not been posting regularly. So last night, I made a decision (who knows if it will stick) to try to review one piece of "software" a day. I realize that it is ambitious, but I would rather make the attempt than have my blog turn stale. So, I'm…
Read more →November 29, 2006
Firefox Add-ons that I really like (and use)
I've been finding Firefox more and more to be the browser that I naturally launch first. It's starting to beat out Safari and Maxthon as my preferred browser. It is great that it is basically the same across all platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux). The other great thing about it is the huge amount of plug-ons or add-ins (e.g., Extensions…
Read more →November 13, 2006
Dual-boot: Mac OSX and Ubuntu (Part II)
Well, I'm making this post from my 12" Powerbook G4, wirelessly connected to the internet using Ubuntu. Yep, you guessed it, I got the wireless working. Not the most elegant of solutions, but it works. I have have a fully functional, dual-boot, Mac OSX 10.4.8 and Ubuntu 6.10 system. So, here is what I did...and the guides I followed: Step…
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