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Installing OS X without a functioning optical drive

July 28th, 2008 by dansnell · No Comments

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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Manage your Inbox

July 28th, 2008 by dcouper · No Comments

I was recently recommended this cool tool for getting stats from your inbox. The product is called xobni (inbox backwards). It works with Microsoft Outlook as a pluggin and is a free download.
It indexes your inbox and then works out statistics like who you email the most (it orders everyone in the inbox) and who [...]

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Find your MAC address on the ipod touch

July 14th, 2008 by dcouper · No Comments

This is one that stumps a lot of ipod touch users; where is the MAC address on my ipod touch?
Well today I thought I would reveal the solution here so mainly I can just send the url the next time I am asked.
Go to the Settings then select General and then select About and then [...]

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iMac start up issue

July 10th, 2008 by dansnell · No Comments

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 back in [...]

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OpenSuse Linux 11.0

June 30th, 2008 by Alex Costa · 1 Comment

openSuse 11.0 was released this month and from user’s feedback it seems to be a good update of this distro by Novell. I’ve been using Suse Linux for a while now and it’s a very robust Linux distribution, strong on the server side but also on the desktop side.
This new version comes with more [...]

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Upload a File to your Ning Social Network.

June 27th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

If you have a Ning Social Network you will find that there is no easy place to upload a file to your Ning profile or the pages. There is no file depository or folder system that is accessible by the user, or even network administrators or creators.
The easiest way that I have found to upload [...]

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