Category: Technology

  • Packages are fun

    Frenchy is a godsend The UPS man finally caught me… and how happy I was, whenever he does. Now I am truly bi-platform, as the software inside the box allows me to do what I need to do on a PC. I’ve been stuck in front of PCs before, but I will admit, each version…

  • Top 10 reasons why PCs are not Evil

    10. Every time I hear the Google toolbar’s *tick* blocking a popup ad, I find a small comfort that I am thwarting a marketer. (This gets regulated to the “bottom” of the list since Safari has this tastefully built in along with tabbed-browsing – the most useful feature _EVER_) 9. This is harder than I…

  • I broke my computer

    Who needs Aqua I installed some stupid hack to rid my system of the annoying “brushed metal” appearance and I hated it even more. So I ran the uninstall script that, upon restart, stuck my system in console mode. Dave helped me ‘root’ around remotedly and identify the missing corrupted file. I did lots of…

  • Geek Treasure #151

    Select, copy, paste, mutilate The new Preview application in the latest version of Mac OS X allows you to copy text from a PDF and paste it into any other type of document. Sure this feature is available in Adobe’s full blown Acrobat suite, but I never upgraded to the native version. What I was…

  • I don’t feel dirty at all

    iTunes for Windows I’d be lying if I didn’t say I anticipated the new release of iTunes today. Reasoning twofold: a.) I was hoping for some fun whiz bang features on the mac side b.) was looking forward to having a music player/organizer on the pc that I’d feel comfortable using. No great new stuff…