Crazy Flash animations are constantly getting in the way of my Internet experience. I once resorted to uninstalling Flash player completely, but I quickly found myself needing Flash to play games and for those stupid web developers that have chosen to make an entire site using Flash without an HTML alternative.
I found an amazing solution […]
How to make the Leopard Time Machine run the backup right now.
1. Run Terminal from the Utilities folder.
2. Type /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle
/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper &
The ampersand at the end runs the backup in the background.
Alternately, you can right-click/control click on the Time Machine icon in the dock and click Back Up Now.
I learned a pretty useful trick for my Mac Book Pro. I use it for presentations, and I’ve been restarting it whenever I plug it into a projector. With this tip, I don’t have to.
1. Press the Apple key > Sleep.
2. Plug in and turn on the display.
3. Press the Escape key to wake the […]
I was looking for tips on my new iPod Nano recently. I scoured the Internet for a tip on how to enable my iPod as a hard drive. I found that most of the tutorials told me to go to Edit > Preferences in iTunes, then click on the iPod tab. Well, there was no […]
Did you know there is a setting in Firefox that enables it to try to guess which web pages you will be visiting next? It then downloads these pages and stores them to make them quickly available to you if you actually visit the page. I personally don’t like this setting. It can cause Firefox […]
