Overall my experience with the new Apple iOS 5 on my iPod Touch has been a positive one. All of the main applications on the device are compatible and the device is still quite responsive and snappy. There is one problem that I have however… OverDrive Media will not transfer my audio books to the [...]

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Would you like to see the date on your menubar along with the time? Well this is how to do it… Go to…System PreferencesDate & TimeOpen International (towards the bottom)Choose Formats (middle option)Go to Customise DatesChoose how you want the date to look – like July 29 or Jul 29Select all (CMD+A) and then copy [...]

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Web Workflow All web developers seem to have a slightly different workflow. Last week I set out on a journey to increase my web development productivity. I’m currently using OS X Leopard 10.5.4 on a iMac 2.1GHz G5. Coda ‘Coda‘, made by panic, is a ftp+text editor all in one. At first glance it appeared [...]

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I recently gave my old powerbook to my sister in law. I had a lot of information on it and so I planned to transfer all my files and do a clean install. One problem the dvd drive on my old powerbook is broken. It would continually spit the installation disk out. Fortunately I have [...]

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This morning we had a problem starting our Intel iMac. It was turning on but all that was happening was the white power light on the front was lit up. I tried the usual things like unplugging all the peripherals – nope unplugging everything and waiting 15 minutes and plugging the power, keyboard and mouse [...]

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