When all else fails…

January 22, 2010 Work/Life
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Last weekend, I attended a photo meetup in the Newport area of Jersey City hosted by John Bodensiek. The weather was cold but dry. We met outside at the Starbucks next to the Newport PATH station. I had everything all set – two SD cards, two tripods, a zoom and prime lens, [...]

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How to secure your Mac – Part 1

January 12, 2010 How To
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So you just got your new Mac and are excited to start using it. You’ve heard a lot about how Macs are easy to use and how secure they are. You’ve seen the ads on TV showing how Windows is susceptible to viruses and hacking and Macs are (supposedly) immune. Apple’s marketing [...]

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ShareTool – remote access for any Mac application or service that uses Bonjour

December 31, 2009 Review
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When my MobileMe account came up for renewal, I let it expire. I did not need it. I had found cheaper and better alternatives.
When Apple’s $99 MobileMe service was released I was quick to register. With MobileMe I could access my mail, contacts, and calendar information in the “cloud” and keep everything [...]

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OmmWriter Beta – Zen writing for the Mac

December 13, 2009 Review
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I was catching up on reading the news feeds this morning when I came across a post on the smoking apples blog about a new text editor called OmmWriter. I’m not sure why I downloaded it. Maybe because of what OmmWriter’s cleanly designed web site promised.
So here I am writing this blog [...]

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Google Chrome is faster than ….

October 27, 2009 Review
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For me the word Chrome evokes images of the shiny, the futuristic and the fast. Clean, efficient and well built. Google Chrome developer preview doesn’t disappoint. Google has taken WebKit, the same Open Source browsing engine that Safari is built on, and in a very short time developed a browser for Mac [...]

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Listing the largest file or sub-directory in the current directory

October 26, 2009 How To
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OS X Daily posted a tip on how to find the largest file in a directory.  I have my own that uses the du UNIX utility.  The du utility displays the file system usage statistics for each file and directory argument. To use it, type du in a Terminal window. The first column [...]

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