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Adding the Date to the Menubar in Mac OS X 10.4

chevvy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:30:04 +0000

Would you like to see the date on your menubar along with the time?

Well this is how to do it…

Go to…
System Preferences
Date & Time
Open International (towards the bottom)
Choose Formats (middle option)
Go to Customise Dates
Choose how you want the date to look – like July 29 or Jul 29
Select all (CMD+A) and then copy (CMD+C), hit Ok
Choose Customise next to Times
Choose Medium format (this is the one OS X uses to display the clock in the menubar)
Paste (CMD+V) the date in next to the Time and click OK

You may have an additional Day of the week in the menubar – so it may read Mon, Mon – this is another setting… to change this go
System Preferences
Date & Time
untick “Show the day of the week”

Mozy – Free Online Backup Service

chevvy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:24:59 +0000

Here is a great website offering a free 2GB online service totally free
Backup 2GB of files for free and always have a copy away from your laptop and always receoverable!

https://mozy.com/home

Alternatively pay $4.95 per month for an unlimited backup service!

Its very quick and easy to setup and works on Mac and Windows.

Incorrect Time on Diary Entries on iTouch

chevvy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:36:03 +0000

All my calendar entries on my iTouch were coming up about 7 hours incorrectly, the events themselves were correct just wrong time. After checking my computer and Touch had the correct settings I found one other place to change…
I went to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Time Zone Support (Near the bottom) -> and selected my Time Zone rather than “Cupertino.
This solved it for me

iPod Touch – Incorrect date/time after Synchronising

chevvy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:10:27 +0000

After synchronising my new iPod Touch for the 2nd time it decided to give it a date of about 9 months ago and changed the time to a completly different time of day!

I was using Windows XP and iTunes.

After searching the web I found that there is an issue with XP and synchronising your iTouch if your laptop/computer has been in hibernation.

So I closed iTunes and restarted it and unplugged the USB and then plugged it back in again and hey presto synchronisation worked like a dream and put my iTouch back in the correct year, day and time

So basically – if you are going to hibernate your machine – shut iTunes down before hand to reopen it when you want to synch again

Looking for a Cheap Laptop or PC?

chevvy — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:37:00 +0000

I have recently found a good website for Dell computers and laptops
It directs you straight back to the Dell website and the deliveries are as quick as if straight from Dell.
However – the deals on there are far more simple to find – and especially the Vostro machines are an excellent buy!

http://www.dmxdimension.com/

Free Basic Graphics Viewer – Irfanview

chevvy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:33:21 +0000

For a very basic, but quick to download and also free (to non-commercial users) I use Irfanview.

Like I say quite basic but can be used in Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003. Very quick to download so if you need a viewer when away from home this is a good one to download.

Allows resizing and rescaling of images, and has some effects to jazz up images!!

Ubuntu – Free OS

chevvy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:17:36 +0000

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/myrequest

Get Ubuntu shipped free to you

Its a free open source Linux-based operating system. You can run it as a dual operating system (I am told … comments please) with Win XP and so in the case of XP not running you can recover your files before formatting the HDD and starting again

NAS – Network Attached Storage

chevvy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:11:37 +0000

I am considering one of these options at the moment.

This came about from 3 reasons – my main PC at home crashed – did the lovely blue screen on me and I had to rebuild it and before I could do this – I had to find 30Gb where I could backup all my files!! Ooops

The 2nd reason being the main PC in my house in a bedroom which backs onto my 2 year old sons bedroom and being a newly built house has paper thin walls – so everytime I want to use the PC my son hears my tapping on the keyboard and will not go to sleep – all I can hear is “mama using computer” being called from under his door.

And I guess the 3rd reason is that since I rebuilt the PC I can no longer share the folders on its hard drives – any clues I would be grateful to hear them – so please leave a comment with suggestions!!

So my search goes on for the best NAS out there. Do I go Netgear with space for any sized hard drives (which I will just happen to have floating around my house) or do I go for Belkin with an inbuit hard drive with additional USB slots for adding HDD later… I will keep you posted

Free AVG Anti-Virus

chevvy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:06:38 +0000

A great free anti-virus program I use is AVG by Grisoft. You can download it at free.grisoft.com.

I have never had any problems with it and it has saved me from a few viruses. It will automatically update if you tell it to.

VPN in Win2K

chevvy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:42:56 +0000

The option to use VPN in Win2k was greyed out and as this was wanted I wanted to use I did some searching and found that you have to have
Telephony and Remote Access Connection Manager turned on in Administrative Tools > Services (or Start, Run, services.msc then hit enter).

To make VPN connections you must turn both of these services on and make sure they are turned to Automatic and then whenever your machine is turned on they will be automatically turned on.

If you want to make the VPN option available on your computer here is where I found the answer to my problem.

http://kb.iu.edu/data/akuu.htmlÂ