Posted on May 1, 2008 by Dan
If you’re a Windows Vista user that has noticed some icons like your clock, volume, and network no longer show up and you’ve already tried rebooting, the How-To Geek has your answer.
First, of course, check to see that they can’t be re-enabled from your Taskbar and Start Menu Properties screen. Right-click on your Taskbar and [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2008 by Dan
MacBook Air’s look great, but underneath that slim, sexy exterior is a problem that for some users is causing their precious to hiccup and/or freeze.
For some users EFI updates from Apple have helped, while others can’t do much of anything without their MBA hanging.
Some users are saying its the result of overheating caused by misapplied [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008 by Dan
If you have a video file that you’d like to share with the world or just a friend or two, you have a new option: Flickr.
This option will only be available for its pro members, but that membership only costs $25 per year and gives you:
Unlimited uploads
Unlimited sets and collections
Access to your original files
Stats on [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by Dan
Last year MacTech magazine printed in its magazine a VBA to AppleScript translation guide to help people who had written Microsoft Office macros in VBA on the Mac only to find out that Mac Office 2008 will no longer support VBA.
Office 2008 is out and MS didn’t back down on their decision to drop VBA [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by Dan
Microsoft puts out a lot of updates for their software that’s great–I know they’re trying to fix bugs, security holes, etc., but when an update has installed and the computer needs to be restarted why does the computer have to continue to nag you ever few minutes about this?
If you’re tired of being nagged (like [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by Dan
Many Mac users already know and love Quicksilver but some, myself included, just recently discovered it.
What is Quicksilver?
The website calls it “a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.”
Okay, so what is Quicksilver?
Quicksilver is an application launcher that makes finding and launching/opening your applications, email messages, URL’s, etc., about as [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2008 by Dan
If you’ve ever taken a USB hard drive that had been working just fine on a Windows computer and tried to use it on a Mac you may have had mixed results.
Sure, when you first plug it in you see the drive show up in Finder and everything looks great, and largely it is. You [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dan
Have you ever tried to delete or rename a file or folder in Windows only to be told that you can’t because something is using it, even though you have EVERYTHING closed?
Find out what it is with a little freebie called Process Explorer.
When you first open Process Explorer you might be initially confused if you’re [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by Dan
Some people like the new look and feel of Office 2007, some don’t. Those that don’t really, really hate it.
Microsoft doesn’t give you a way change the look and feel back to, say, Office 2003, but an add-on I just found by Addintools looks like it will do the trick.
Classic Menu for Office 2007 is [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008 by Dan
Google is working on an updated version of their player that will automatically detect a users connection speed and serve up a different video quality depending on the speed.
If you don’t want to wait for that there’s a hack you can use to get higher quality videos right now and its simple–just add a few [...]
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