By Chris on Feb 28, 2008 in Featured, How to, Linux, OSX, Software, Windows | 5 Comments
Do you feel like you just don’t do enough for society and you want to actually contribute something even if it is just 1’s and 0’s. Then here are 10 great programs that you can install and run on your PC when you have to go back to work cause your incompetent boss, who [...]
By Mike on Feb 23, 2008 in Featured, How to, Linux, OSX, Windows | 3 Comments
We have all been there. Its late at night and you are beat from a day of answering questions and solving problems for your coworkers. All you want to do is watch T.V. and goto bed. Then the phone rings and it is either a family member or friend who just blew up their [...]
By Chris on Feb 19, 2008 in Linux, OSX, Windows | 0 Comments
Today at lunch, after eating my favorite peanutbutter and cookie batter sandwich, (the best way to get over my heroine addiction) I stumbled upon this great site that shows the top 100 network security tools available today. How do they know which security tools are the best?
By Mike on Feb 18, 2008 in How to, OSX | 0 Comments
Sometimes I think that Apple is trying to compete with Microsoft on code bloat. The advantage of OSX is that we can remove the bloat without breaking the system. What if I told you that you could recover up to 3 gigs of space in under 3 minutes. You would say heck yes Mike. Tell [...]
By Grant on Feb 16, 2008 in Featured, Gadgets, Hardware, How to, OSX | 3 Comments
Install OSX and the Mythtv frontend on a clean system.
For Christmas this year I got an awesome gift of a Mac Mini core solo to use as a Mythtv frontend on my bedroom entertainment center. My brother had recently bought two of them and said they worked great. He configured the Mac [...]
By Mike on Feb 11, 2008 in News, OSX | 0 Comments
Get it while it’s hot! Apple just released the long awaited 10.5.2 update to OSX. Tons of fixes are included.
Updates were made to:
Active Directory
Airport
Back to my Mac
Dashboard
Dock
Desktop
iCal
iChat
iSync
Finder
Mail
Networking
Preview
Printing
RAW image
Safari
Login and Setup
Time Machine
And a bunch of other things. The download weighs in a 180 MB so plan to spend a few mins. The baby can be [...]
By Mike on Feb 10, 2008 in Gadgets, News, OSX | 0 Comments
Ars-Technica is reporting that a recent patent filling by Apple points to widgets being developed for the Apple TV. I sure hope this is the case. When the Apple TV was first released I read all the reviews that reported that it missed the mark so I didn’t actually pay attention until it was hacked [...]
By Mike on Jan 31, 2008 in Featured, Linux, OSX, Windows | 4 Comments
I just bought a 17 inch MacBook Pro. The reason I went with the Mac is because apple hardware is the only hardware that can run all three of the major operating system out of the box. In my day to day life I support Linux, Windows, and OSX systems. Even though I have [...]