13+ Ways to Extend your iPad’s Battery Life

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I have now been the lucky owner of an iPad for a little over an week now, and each day I’m becoming yet more attached to it. But this article is not about my “love affair.” It’s more about keeping the love running as long as possible, namely getting the most out of the iPad’s […]

Fix Mail.app Search Issues and Speed Up Apple Mail with This Simple Script

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Today I was trying to find an email in my Apple Mail and went to my usual trustworthy internal mail search function only to find that the “Entire Message” field was grayed out for all of my accounts. Granted, I use a mixture of POP3 and IMAP account and my main IMAP account has about […]

Idea: Paintballing Cars Helps You Drive More Safely

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First of all, before anyone gets any wild ideas, the following article is only AN IDEA. Unless you want to get in big trouble with the Law, I recommend that you DON’T do anything that I say here, well, at least most of it. That all being said, I have come up with a GREAT […]

HTD Tech Tip #7: Fix Broken Firefox Toolbars

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Today I ran into a rather odd issue. All of a sudden, all of my Firefox buttons that were from 3rd party plugins were missing and could not be added via the “customize” option. Very weird! I did a quick amount of research and saw that other manifestations could include: Bookmarks not saving properly Size […]

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HTD Tech Tip #1 – Your hardware/software is always out of date

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As it seems to be taking some time for me to produce longer reviews, I thought that I would start a new smaller, on-going series of posts called “HTD Tech Tips”. (HTD stands for HighTechDad.) When I come across something, a tip, trick, software or hardware item that I think is particularly noteworthy, I will […]