Good, Inexpensive Laptop Feet

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

One of my favorite laptop accessories is/was made by an Oregon company and sold in local Mac Stores. They're the ever useful and popular Dr. Bodelin's laptop bumpers. The laptop bumpers raise the back end laptops up by about 1" or so, dramatically increasing air flow thereby reducing ...

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Snow Leopard: Are your zip files not unzipping?

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

After updating my MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard, I noticed that I was unable to open .zip archives. I use The Unarchiver to open my Mac and PC-compatible archives. When I attempted to open a zip file, Unarchiver had been overtaken by Snow Leopard's "Archive Utility", and the Archive ...

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Installing OS X Leopard in 10 Minutes from a USB Flash Drive

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

I decided to make a clean installation of OS X Leopard last night. I had already used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy my Leopard installation DVD to an 8GB partition on one of my USB memory sticks. Having the OS X installation DVD on USB is awesome. At the tick ...

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