It’s sNOw Leopard
Wed, 09.2.09 – 2:23 PM | 0 Comments

Have you ever had a friend disappear for a while and then suddenly reappear weighing 50 pounds less? Changed the diet. Went to 24 Hour Fitness. I always feel amazed at this transformation: looks like …

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Using An External Monitor at Full Resolution with your MacBook
Wed, 09.9.09 – 12:05 PM | 0 Comments

Using An External Monitor at Full Resolution with your MacBook

MacBook with a Cinema DisplayOne of the unfortunate downsides of an Apple MacBook is that you can’t use an external monitor at full resolution without first tricking the operating system. Apple doesn’t provide a control panel that allows you to select this option. Instead follow these steps:

1. Plug your MacBook into a power source
2. Set the external monitor to the desired resolution (it won’t show up that way, but don’t worry about that for now)
2. Unplug the monitor
3. Unplug any external USB devices
4. Close the lid so that the MacBook goes to sleep
5. Plug in the monitor
6. Plug in an external keyboard or mouse
7. Click the keys or the mouse

The MacBook should wake to display video on the screen but the “snore” light will continue to fade in and out. It’s critical that the MacBook be plugged into a power source otherwise it will continually go back to sleep.

The Operating System I Always Wanted
Wed, 09.2.09 – 2:22 PM | 0 Comments
The Operating System I Always Wanted

During the dark days of Apple, before the second coming of Steve Jobs, I had hovered over a PC that was a little too slow to run Windows 95 and the hard a little too …

IT For Architects
Wed, 04.15.09 – 10:01 AM | 0 Comments
IT For Architects

ArcSource CEO Dave Monk will be speaking at the American Institute of Architects East Bay Professional Practice Forum on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 12PM. We will be exploring the latest IT trends in …

Powerpoint Presenter’s View On The Wrong Display
Wed, 02.18.09 – 5:17 PM | 0 Comments
Powerpoint Presenter’s View On The Wrong Display

Suppose you’re trying to run a Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 slide show on your Mac, but the Presenter’s View with all your notes shows up on the projector, while the actual slide show is on your …

OSX 10.5.6 Update: “Configuring Installation” Bug Fix
Fri, 12.19.08 – 6:51 PM | 0 Comments
OSX 10.5.6 Update: “Configuring Installation” Bug Fix

After attempting to update my own laptop running OS X 10.5.5 and several iMacs earlier this week, it was apparent that there was a bug during the 10.5.6 update installation.
Apple has acknowledged the issue and …

How To Safely Install iPhone Updates
Wed, 11.26.08 – 5:06 PM | 0 Comments
How To Safely Install iPhone Updates

I’m restoring my iPhone right now. Again. I bricked it while trying to install the 2.2 software update. The worst part is, I know the correct way to install updates! I just always forget or …

No one likes your dumb ginormous URLs; So shrink ’em!
Thu, 11.20.08 – 9:24 AM | 0 Comments
No one likes your dumb ginormous URLs; So shrink ’em!

Send or display an html link (via email, texting, twittering, etc.) and you can wind up taking a good amount of valuable visual space. They’re functional; they send your reader to the right place, but …

Bonjour – Be a Printer God!
Fri, 10.24.08 – 3:24 AM | 0 Comments
Bonjour – Be a Printer God!

Plugging printers or plotters into an existing network usually requires giving a printer an IP address, just as you would any computer. This requires a certain amount of skill once the printer is unwrapped. Yawn.
But …

Comprehensive File-sharing Site list (Updated)
Wed, 10.22.08 – 12:28 PM | 0 Comments
Comprehensive File-sharing Site list (Updated)

Email is a terrible way to exchange large files; the technology was never meant to be a file exchange service. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is. But FTP is not always as convenient or accessible as …

iTunes HD offerings: reason for no Blu-ray Support? AMEX Digital Corp says: “Whatever dude.”
Thu, 10.16.08 – 4:00 PM | 0 Comments
iTunes HD offerings: reason for no Blu-ray Support? AMEX Digital Corp says: “Whatever dude.”

Steve Jobs, et. al. announced on Tues. Oct. 14th, Apple’s newly designed notebooks. Conspicuously absent from the announcement was integrated support for Blu-ray, the recent winner of the next generation of optical storage and HD …

Little Helpers for Windows and Mac
Thu, 10.16.08 – 2:05 PM | 0 Comments
Little Helpers for Windows and Mac

Every new release of Windows and Macintosh OS X sees a plethora of new and improved functionality. But there is always something missing, some little functionality that is needed to get a small task you’re …