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Continue reading →: Don’t every drag and replace a folder
In the Mac, I just lost 10GB worth of data doing that. With Windows, when you “replace” a folder, it actually merges the contents together. With the Mac, it overwrites anything taht was there. Taht means once you do it that data is lost, lost. It doesn’t even go into…
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Continue reading →: What’s not easy on the Mac
OK, I love my MacBook Pro, but there are still four or five things that I can’t figure out how to do. I know these little Windows utilities so well that I just miss them. Here’s the list: * Beyond Compare. I use this incessantly to keep the backup NAS,…
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Continue reading →: Azureus Plugins
This is a cool tool for downloading and runs cross platform and also has a large plug in library. Some of the interesting ones are. “Zeropaid”:http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6384/Top+Azureus+Plugins+Revealed has a nice list including advanced statistics BT and router problems? File Sharing FAQ – dslreports.com Although its effectiveness is questionable, you could install…
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Continue reading →: iPhone 1.1
I just love how rumors seem to start. All of the rumors about the next update to the iPhone seem to come from a single post on “Howard Forums”:http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1191647 so who knows what is true or how much gulp Apple might make us pay for this update. I sure hope…
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Continue reading →: Blue Angels Fly at 1:30PM
One of the highlights of Seattle, the “Blue Angels”:http://www.seafair.com/events/airshow/ don’t fly until 1:30PM today. A cloudy day like this is a good one for photos and getting the kids on the boat. !
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Continue reading →: Chart Reading
Well, sometimes when you are reading a navigational chart, all those little symbols are so mysterious. NOAA used to print something called Chart 1 which explains what is going on. “Chart 1”:http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/chart1/chart1hr.htm is now available online so you can figure out mysterious, but important things like obstructions and wrecks when…
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Continue reading →: TinyXP
TinyXP AppzXP Windows XP Pro Lite » Torrentspy.com oala101 presents… Windows TinyXP Rev06 (brought to you by eXPerience), together with some appz. Basically, this is Windows XP Pro SP2, with useless contents removed, for performance’s sake. It runs fast, installs with no trouble, is updatable (passing WGA), and contains the…
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Continue reading →: Hidden iMovie Files
Sometimes the Mac can be too clever for its own good. iMovie has a hidden directory structure for movies and somehow a movie I made is chewing up 50GB of disk, but you can’t see it. “Discussions.apple.com”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5001832 tells us that iMovie keeps its files in something called a pacakge. This…
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Continue reading →: Small MacBook Pro Adapter MA938LL/A
I wish that they had shipped this smaller brick with the initial MacBooks, but at least you can buy a much smaller adapter for $80 in a few weeks… MacNN | Briefly: New MBP adapter, Duke/iPhone solved brief: Apple has begun shipping a new MagSafe power adapter for the MacBook…
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Continue reading →: iPod Backup
So if you’ve got all your files on your iPod, how do you back it up. If you aren’t near your computer, this could be a disaster. “iLounge”:http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-computer/ saves the day with a good overview of the many utilities available. I’ve used a bunch of these are they are so,…
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