Most of the computer geekdom of my generation has trolled usenet at some point. Many of you still do. One of the many things you an easily find on usenet are lossless albums of your favorite music. I guess you could always rip the CD you already own in your favorite music management software and [...]
Read On No CommentsI’m sick. I’ve been home since last Tuesday, and I’m going strong with feeling crappy every day. It’s Bronchitis, and I haven’t had this beast in a long time – about 2 years. This is actually ironic in a way, because I got sick around this time two years ago when I first met my [...]
Many times when you think you’ve removed an application, some files associated with that application still linger on your computer. Recently I had some woes with a divx plugin for firefox, but as many people find out, that’s not the only software who’s uninstaller is lacking. You can use this method as a general uninstall [...]
I’ve recently had a bout with some very clingy extensions for #Firefox. Specifically the #Divx plugins on my #Mac. They would not uninstall. No matter how many times I tried disabling or uninstalling, they would just come back, and FF would proudly announce that two new plugins have been installed. I searched the web in [...]
If you use terminal a lot, like I tend to – even for directory lookups for phone numbers of colleagues, and if you’re as anal retentive as I am, then perhaps the way your hostname appears in your command prompt may be important to you OS X seems to, by default, set your hostname [...]
On a gray, and early morning in Detroit at the intersection of Cass and Charlotte, a woman crosses a snow-covered street stopping nearly halfway across to get a better grip on her handbag. A bus drives by. There is steam rising from the streets up into the air, and thick gray haze blankets everything, and [...]
Open up Automator (in the Applications folder) and choose a Service template. From the library choose “Run Shell Script” and drag it across to the workflow area. In the text box paste the fol- lowing command: ‘/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession’ -suspend Finally, change the “text” drop-down menu above the workflow to “no input” and then save you [...]
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-iphone-4-reception-issues-youre-holding-th/ It’s surprising that people didn’t notice this happening with the iPhone 3′s. Perhaps the 4 is more sensitive and quicker to respond? Dunno… Does this account for the big part of AT&T’s perceived (or not) signal issues? I don’t think so. I can tell you with certainty that, for example when I pull into [...]