Tech Tips
Thursday, March 31, 2011
World Backup Day
In addition to being my wife's birthday today (Happy birthday, Sweets!), today is World Backup Day. Interestingly, it is the first World Backup Day according to Ars Technica. To celebrate, the folks over there decided to discuss their backup scenarios in order to inspire others to get their backup plan in order if they haven't already. This has in turn inspired me to post to this weblog after being dormant for nearly a year and discuss how I handle our backups. Continue reading…
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Thunderbird Tweaks
If your interested in ditching Outlook like I was, here are some tweaks that make Mozilla's free Thunderbird mail client behave like you want. Continue reading…
Friday, July 11, 2008
iPhone Activation
Activating the iPhone through iTunes proved to be an exercise in extreme patience as every other person who bought one today has also been trying to activate. As such, this tip should prove quite valuable. Continue reading…
Monday, October 23, 2006
Show iTunes in Your Taskbar
Simply right-click on an empty part of your taskbar and select Toolbars > iTunes. Be sure that the "Show iTunes icon in system tray" checkbox is NOT selected on the Advanced tab of the iTunes preferences page (found on the Edit menu) for this to work...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
RSS, Google, and You!
OK, I have to admit I've never really been a big fan of RSS. For those of you tuning in from home, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS allows news or news-like sites to syndicate their content so that you can view articles from many different sites at once from the same place (or so that is my humble understanding of it all). I have shied away from this technology because it usually requires that you have an RSS reader, sometimes called an aggregator. I don't like to have 15 million different programs to get the information I want and as such I have deemed it easier to just bookmark my favorite news sites rather than open an RSS reader and THEN read the articles. Continue reading…
Saturday, September 3, 2005
Drive Differently
First of all, when I created the categories for this weblog, I had intended to use "Tech Tips" for computer-related advice (something I still have yet to get around to). In the face of rising gas prices however, I have decided to break this category in with some automotive advice. Continue reading…
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