So Dumb, It (mega)Hurts
Monday, May 26th, 2008Found on Craigslist this last week. Ouch.
Archive for the ‘Mac Stuff’ Category
Parallels - Unparalleled Customer Appreciation
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Back in January 2008, I wrote about a great customer service experience with Parallels. Out of the blue, they sent me a $10 Visa gift card as a thank you for buying Parallels 3.0. This afternoon I opened my mailbox to find an envelope from Parallels. When I opened ...
Booting OS X on a 32GB USB Flash Drive
Monday, April 28th, 2008After testing the OCZ 32GB USB 2.0 flash drive for backing up some servers (and being disappointed), I thought I'd try to use it as a bootable drive for OS X trouble shooting. Here's a quick overview of how things went. Formatting the 32GB OCZ Flash Drive for booting ...
Replacing a Hard Drive in a MacBook Pro - The Good, the Bad, The Ugly
Friday, February 29th, 2008After becoming accustomed to upgrading to newer MacBook Pro models every year, I finally convinced myself that I'd try hanging onto the same 2.16GHz laptop for a little longer, even if it was out of warranty and a whole 240MHz slower than the latest-greatest. I already had 4GB RAM ...
Renaming Images Based on EXIF Data
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008I take a lot of photographs. Thousands per year. I've been keeping them on DVD and on hard drives for years, but recently I noticed an odd thing - the "date created" and "date modified" reported in Finder have been wrong. Not just a little wrong, like ...
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