Apple TV software update 4.2.1
On 2011/03/23
Just updated my Apple TV 2 software. Below is what Apple says they added and fixed. MLB.TV and NBA are interesting if you are a sports fan or a bettor. Netflix surround sound update and new slideshow themes are for the rest of us.
Improve Mac OS X Finder, put full path in title bar
On 2011/03/22
I don’t remember where I first learned this simple hack. It is one of the more useful changes to Finder you can make. I use it on all my Macs. I also put this on my clients’ Macs.
You can display the full path in the Finder title bar rather than have only the folder [...]
Speed up your browser, turn off proxies
On 2011/03/16
The following applies to Windows and OS X in slightly different ways.
We all want our computers to run faster. Starting up your browser can be slowed down if it is searching for proxies. Most likely you don’t know what a proxy server is. You probably aren’t running a proxy server or [...]
Why I am abandoning Windows and you will too
On 2011/03/16
Microsoft recently released the final version of Window 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Thus far, my experience in updating 8 machines is: 2 succeeded, 5 failed, and one “succeeded” by force. This last one is my main Windows machine. It failed to install SP1 using Windows Update. SP1 installed when I used the [...]
Look what Google ebooks sent me
On 2011/03/16
Legal file names
On 2011/03/07
A friend recently asked,
Since when is it possible to use $ and ! characters in file names?
I just noticed an exclamation point in the name of a file I had ripped from a CD a few weeks age. I don’t recall seeing it there before…
I hadn’t thought about this topic for many [...]
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