[Updated Jan 20, 2007 - I no longer use Durable. I found that the drop down menus didn't work in Safari so I swapped it out. I went out to the Wordpress Theme Tester for Durable and found they didn't work either.]
If you’ve been here before you know the site has a new design. [...]
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Knox, as in Fort Knox, is Mac software that manages encrypted disk images. I came across Knox while looking for a replacement to Stuffit Deluxe. I’d been using Stuffit to create an encrypted archive as part of my backup process. This was the only piece of Stuffit Deluxe that I used and I don’t want [...]
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My PCs got security patches for Java and Mac OS X this past week.
My Windows machine got update 10 straight through the Java Runtime update tool. The release notes are here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html.
My Macs got two OS security updates and an update to iChat.
Security Update 2006-07 is described here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829.
Security Update 2006-08 is described here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304916.
I [...]
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I’ve been having ongoing problems with corruption in my iPhoto library. I was up to about 14,000 photos which is well below the 250,000 image limit. Problems included locking up while importing photos and crashes when emptying the trash.
I’d do the typical iPhoto and disk repairs. They might help for a short while but [...]
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In my original entry about AOL My eAddress I mentioned that it crashed both Firefox and Safari on my Mac Mini. Both Firefox and Safari work fine with the web mail on my iMac. The problem continues on my Mac Mini.
It’s probably specific to my Mac Mini but at sometime in the future I’ll be [...]
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The OS Quest is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
I'm currently backing up over 32GB in over 121,000 files.
Is Cable TV Obsolete?
Ok, I guess the obvious answer is no. But I began to examine whether or not I really need cable TV. I’m not talking about switching to satellite to save money to get the same stuff, I talking about dropping the whole concept. This was driven by three main events.
First, I’ve been getting more and [...]
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