StumbleUpon is a great way to discover new content on the internet. You tell StumbleUpon about your interests and it will show you pages from the internet that you might enjoy (you can try a quick demo if you are wary). The easiest way to use StumbleUpon is via the Firefox add-on (there […]
How to Enable Mac Address Book to Sync with Google’s Gmail Contacts without an iPhone or .Mac [Mac Guide]
By Franklin on May 29, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Google, Tips |
This is just a quick tip to explain how to sync your Mac Address Book (Leopard 10.5.3 only) with Google’s Gmail without needing an iPhone or a .Mac account. If you have an iPhone then you don’t need this tip and can follow these instructions. If you don’t have a Gmail account you’ll […]
Speed Up Contextual Menu Access to Apple’s Dictionary [Mac Tip]
By Franklin on Apr 23, 2008 within Apple, Tips |
This is just a quick tip for anyone having trouble with Leopard’s Dictionary.app behaving slowly when accessing it from the contextual menu. One feature of Apple’s Dictionary I love is being able to right click on any word and select ‘Look Up in Dictionary’ from the menu. However, in Leopard this […]
A Few Tricks for Getting the Most from the Safari (3) Web Browser [Mac Tip]
By Franklin on Mar 11, 2008 within Apple, Tips | 3 Comments
I recently gave up on Firefox 2 in lieu of Leopard because of stability and memory issues. Safari 3 was a huge leap forward from Safari 2 so I decided to give it a try. Overall, I’ve found that I’m enjoying using Safari as my main browser. The only part of Firefox that […]
25 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows XP Users
By Bill on Feb 5, 2008 within Featured, Tips, Windows | 6 Comments
If you’re like me, your experience when you sit down at the computer is more of a ‘point and click’ thing than a ‘carpal tunnel generating’ thing. However, there are times (rare maybe) that I spend a little more time at the keyboard, and I find it irritating to have to scroll through a […]
How to Encrypt Your USB Memory Stick in Case of Loss or Theft [Mac Tip]
By Franklin on Jan 30, 2008 within Apple, Tips | 10 Comments
USB memory sticks are getting cheaper and cheaper while continuing to increase in capacity. This is great but also risky since now you have that much more information that can be lost or stolen. You can protect against your data falling into the wrong hands by creating an encrypted volume on the memory stick. […]
Yes, You Are Talking to a Machine (How to Get a Human on the Phone)
By Bill on Jan 24, 2008 within Coffee Break, Tips | 2 Comments
All the presents have been opened and the family sent packing. The college football bowl games are over and you are finally starting to wake up from the tryptophan induced coma. You’re probably wondering what to do now. Well, if your Christmas went anything like mine, you probably need to return those […]
Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]
By Franklin on Jan 22, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Tips | 14 Comments
Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of simultaneous key strokes that perform a particular task. Using these shortcuts (which often involve modifier keys such as command, option, control and shift) typically saves time because you don’t need to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. I use the following 23 shortcuts almost everyday […]
How To Create a Poster Using Microsoft PowerPoint
By Bill on Dec 12, 2007 within Guides, Tips, Windows |
If you are like me, everyone around you uses a Mac and you’re the only one with a Windows machine. So, when you have a computer question about something, you can’t lean over and ask your co-worker (because they just laugh at you and say ‘Apple has a sale on MacBooks right now’). Instead […]
Mathematics - Making an Even Merrier Christmas!
By Bill on Dec 7, 2007 within Coffee Break, Tips |
Last night I was wrapping a Christmas present, and because I’m so frugal (that’s fancy talk for cheap), I broke out the ruler and measuring tape to ensure that I minimized wrapping paper waste. It never fails that after wrapping a large item there are a lot of little pieces left over. These scraps […]