Be wary of FreeCreditReport.com. If you don’t read the print on the left, you’ll miss that if you don’t call within 7 days, your “free” credit report turns into a monthly subscription. So in other words, you get what you pay for, and the credit agencies are the ones tricking you. Great country we live… Continue reading FreeCreditReport.com trick
Author: Steve Riggins
Sad state of PDF Forms on the Mac
While trying to fill out a voter registration form, I ran into this sad state of affairs: Preview works with the check boxes and radio buttons, but the text fields are only 2 characters wide. SmileOnMyMac’s PDFpen application doesn’t work at all. Radio buttons are displayed randomly on the page, the text fields are not… Continue reading Sad state of PDF Forms on the Mac
Netflix to charge premium to rent Blu-Ray
Cool, another reason to rent Apple TV movies. Read about Netflix decision
Digital Video Essentials for BluRay
I picked up Digital Video Esstentials from Amazon to calibrate my DLP TV set. The information was good, if not too much. The instructions on how to use the video patterns was poor – They fire too much information at the user without specific steps. However, once I watched the same segment several times, I… Continue reading Digital Video Essentials for BluRay
Thanks, Microsoft, for Excel 2008!
I’ve now found 5 spreadsheets for Excel, written in Excel, that won’t open in the 2008 Office for Mac. No VBA Macros Super slow performance (try 15 minutes to edit a cell) Are the two big issues. What a joke. Edit: I have tried the latest 12.0.1 version. http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t11882-roguegearspreadsheet/ is one of the spreadsheets that… Continue reading Thanks, Microsoft, for Excel 2008!
FINALLY! SonicWall VPN Bug fixed in Apple Airport Extreme N!
Yes! Yes! After 12 months of not being able to use my router, Apple shipped Firmware 7.3.1 which passes SonicWall VPN packets! So far, the router is fast, super fast. Now to see if it keeps connections!
NetNewsWire demo at PMUG
I gave a demo of NetNewsWire at PMUG tonight. Well actually, I am giving the demo 🙂
Backup Bouncer helps verify your backups
I have not tried this yet but looks interesting: Backup Bouncer Note: This is a geek tool at the moment – Requires XCode, etc.
Sophie
We’re getting close to shipping Sophie. Here is a page with some tutorials we set up for Ross High School. They show what I’ve been working on for some time now: Sophie
An example of how .mac doesn’t get it
Make movie in iMovie Upload to .mac web gallery Get url: http://gallery.mac.com/sriggins#100087 What the hell is that? Why didn’t it let me choose the url to use? iWeb does the same lame stuff. I can’t take this serious with a url like sriggins#100087
Detroit Cat City
I forgot the foil wrapped cucumber.
Ordered a Mac Pro!
I ordered a Mac Pro, Dual Quad Core 2.8 with 2gb RAM and the nVidia 8800GT today from the Apple Store. Just kiddin, Erick. I ordered it via The Beaverton Mac Store, got my PMUG discount (5% for you PMUG members!), and also picked up AppleCare for my MacBook Pro. I’ll add more RAM and… Continue reading Ordered a Mac Pro!
The latest failure of the Mac Finder UI
I see file I want on dock, drag to Finder window. Poof sound and animation heard. Crap, I just deleted my Downloads stack off the dock See downloads in said Finder window. Drag to dock. Poof sound and animation heard. Crap, I just deleted my Downloads sidebar item, also. /sigh
FogBugz
If you write software, you should be using Fogbugz Not only is the software/service great, when I told them I was going to buy a copy for my personal use, they said “Just switch to the free 2 user account” Whoa. This site, developed by the infamous “Joel on Software,” allows you to track cases… Continue reading FogBugz
MacBook / MacBook Pro Keyboard update
It’s on your software update. And here I thought it was my lame typing or iSkin that was causing the first character I typed to be lost!
How to fix screenshots from a broken scale value
From Tim: Don’t know whether you’ve ever tried: defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.50 to set the global scaling (works pretty well except some apps actually go all fuzzy and others look fabulous)? It turns out it breaks the cmd-shift-4 to snapshot the screen and save the image to a file. The general advice if you… Continue reading How to fix screenshots from a broken scale value
Why you should use Time Machine
Let me tell you a somewhat long tale about the week I’ve had. This will get a little geeky, but you’d find out exactly why you should be using Time Machine and maybe a few tips to help your disaster recovery process. Time Machine is Mac OS X 10.5’s automatic backup system. You attach a… Continue reading Why you should use Time Machine
Apple ships Apple TV 2.0 – A review
I bought an Apple TV after Apple’s promised rental changes. Ok, so it is a toy, really I mean come on, $230 just to pay Apple more money to rent movies, but i love tech and wanted to check this out. I’ve always wanted a 1080p Apple TV and while this is still 720p, my… Continue reading Apple ships Apple TV 2.0 – A review
Netipots
I have been hearing about netipots for two months or so, and as someone who has always had allergies, taken medication, worn masks in the yard and soon to have a new kitty, I am interested in any solution to allergy relief. So a netipot is just a pot – some look like aladdin’s lamp,… Continue reading Netipots
Tom Dowdy has passed away
Unconfirmed reports state that Apple Engineer (QuickTime, iTunes and others) “suddenly” passed away. More information is not available at this time. According to Tom’s page he wrote the popular Darkside of the Mac screensaver. Tom worked for Apple for 17 years as of the last update of his page, more like 21 now.