Rich is just a font of tips and information

Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Slideshows on the Mac | Tongfamily.com — his guide to all the slideshow options on the mac. What to use in place of DxO Time capsules running hot and what to do ... Read more..

Mac utilities — Witch, itunes scripts

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Many Tricks · Witch — super useful task switcher, let’s you see all windows within an app doug’s applescripts for itunes — a ton of scripts for manipulating your song library Geektool ... Read more..

Stuff I Want But Don’t Need

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Meet Rockwell’s Jawhorse — I have a thing for portable work benches and their ilk Borosilicate Tea Kettle — just because I like saying it, “could ... Read more..

Software I am meaning to try

Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

CrunchGear » Archive » XBMC for Mac OS X continues to mature, gives Front Row much needed competition — I have an idle mac mini… cloudprint — i occasionally want to ... Read more..

Adding separators to mac dock

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Real separators for the Mac OS X Leopard dock (howto) — here is one way, lets you have blank separators on the dock. free and looks reasonably good. Read more..

OS X Home Control Server

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Perceptive Automation Releases Indigo 3.0, Mac OS X Home Control Server | eHomeUpgrade — I’m going to need an X10/zwave control program for the mac for future halloweens, perhaps this ... Read more..

Networking a mac and a xp computer with a kodak 5500 printer - FixYa

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sigh been trying to make this work and it looks like it never will — Networking a mac and a xp computer with a kodak 5500 printer - FixYa — ... Read more..

Software notes — bloatware alternatives

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software — i didn’t know about cdburnerxp Rsyncx on the mac — potential beyondcompare alternative Passpack password manager. I am not ready to give some ... Read more..

File System Mounting Tricks

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Featured Mac Download: Drag and Drop Upload Files to Google Docs with Gdocsuploader — Googledocs mounted on a mac. Flickr mounted under Linux Mount USB drives in a folder — to get ... Read more..

iphone to ical to entourage to exchange == yuk

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

OK this is starting to get really annoying. 70+ sync errors today with the iphone. seems to be mostly with recurring calendar events. grr. i know ... Read more..

Importing AVCHD files into iMovie

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Did this for the first time last night. Movies look great on the mac but the import process is dog slow, basically happening at something close to regular playback ... Read more..

MacBook Air SSD arrived

Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Apple - MacBook Air — very happy so far. Don’t miss a spinning hard drive at all. Read more..

Stuff I want but don’t need — grabbag

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Gadgets Weblog: Wacom Bamboo Fun — I’ve always wanted a tablet. Painter’s Pyramid — actually seem highly useful 160Megapixel camera — on the road to gigapixel cameras Sandisk TakeTV. this keeps ... Read more..

New apple stuff

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rich likes the new Time Capsule. I may get one. Already ordered the new slim notebook. And the mac pros with the refreshed video card options look ... Read more..

Mac software tips to try

Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Feature: Customize Your Mac with Leopard Power Tweaks. If nothing else I’d like the “Revert the blue dots to Tiger’s black triangles” tweak, those blue dots are just not ... Read more..

HD cams compat with Leopard

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

iMovie ’08 Camcorder Support — getting a cam, here’s the list of what is actually tested with latest apple software Read more..

Oops, a painful windows to mac conversion lesson

Sunday, August 5th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Tong Family Blog: Don’t every drag and replace a folder — yeow, i would not have anticipated this. On a more positive front, some good comments here re mac utilities for ... Read more..

OSX and Windows playing nicely

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A bag of tips on making OSX and Windows happy on the same machine — Hack Attack: Set Windows programs as defaults for your Mac (and vice versa) - Lifehacker ... Read more..

Ignition blog roundup

Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rahul discusses new features at Judy’s book — New Features on Judy’s Book at Starting Up by Rahul Pathak Oh and also at couponlooker — looks pretty useful Rich is obviously a ... Read more..

Mac RDP client

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Been using the Mac RDP client today — on the lan at home. have to say it works pretty well. a little problem with color mapping, but otherwise ... Read more..

Video iPod; Media Center iMac

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’m sure I’ll get one of both, but I have to agree — I have to have HD downloads or I won’t bother with the video service.  And I don’t ... Read more..