Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally

So, I wrote about my fledgling media center set up before, and I AppleTV, some random thoughts">ranted about the AppleTV

saying I would just get a Mac Mini and call it a day. Read the rest »>

There were a couple of people who were close, but no one hit it on the nose, so here is what I did:

First you snag the firewire cable from the iSight and connect one end to the broken drive lappy, and the other end to the not-so-broken drive lappy.  Then you restart the broken drive lappy in firewire target disk mode; once the HD of broken lappy pops up on no-so-broken lappy you launch System Prefs and use the Startup Disk chooser to choose the HD loaded via firewire.  You then reboot the no-so-broken lappy and that’s it. Read the rest »

So, this is going to be a Mac OS X tip in the form of a quiz… MacGyver style.

The ScenarioRead the rest »

For some people this will be a no-brainer, but for the new mac user, or non-power user this tip will be a life saver.

Have you ever needed to navigate to a hidden folder via the Finder, or worse yet from somewhere like System Preferences?  Lets say you are following along with my SVN tutorial, and you have gotten as far as to install SVN and scplugin, and now you are on the scplugin System Preference pane and need to ‘open’ your svn executable. Read the rest »

Just a quick post to say that yes google is releasing an IM thingy today, and yes it is using Jabber, and yes you can get it to work in iChat.

Follow these easy steps: Read the rest »