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Using Your USB727 with Snow Leopard

David — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:44:15 +0000

I had a little trouble accessing the Internet today with my USB-727 modem from Verizon Wireless. When my Mac was running Leopard, I had installed the drivers from Verizon Wireless (called VZAccess). So even though I didn’t use the VZAccess Manager, the drivers were installed on my Mac. I upgraded my OS to Snow Leopard (OS [...]

Info Select for Mac with Snow Leopard

David — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:27:15 +0000

I wrote previously about Installing Info Select 8 on your Mac using Crossover for Mac by CodeWeavers. Over the weekend, I upgraded to Apple’s latest version of Mac OS X, “Snow Leopard.” It looks great! In order to use Crossover for Mac, though, you must upgrade to the latest version (8.0.1 as of this post). As [...]

iPhone 3.0 Backup Faster

David — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Original iPhone Software Update to 3.0 This week the iPhone 3.0 software update became available. Of course I wanted to have it on my (original non-3G) phone immediately. It may have been foolish to risk an update on a day that I really needed the phone. To add to the decision, the sync of my Version [...]

Data Recovery Tool Reviewed at storage.net

David — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:16:10 +0000

Must-Have Data Recovery Tool The Universal Drive Adapter is one tool that should be in the Data Recovery professional’s toolkit. It is reviewed over at storage.net in the latest post. Many of the useful features of this adapter are covered as are some suggested uses. storage.net storage.net is a new blog devoted to all things storage. Please take [...]

Dovecot Does Not Like Time to Move Backward!

David — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:38:08 +0000

Dovecot running within a FreeBSD Jail can create some interesting issues. One issue that affected my mail server today was time moving backwards (37 seconds, according to Dovecot as reported in the /var/log/maillog): May 4 21:45:17 mailhost dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 37 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill [...]

Linux for a Day

David — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:38:24 +0000

Computer Magazines I had a little fun this week trying out various flavors of Linux. I was browsing the local bookstore’s magazine rack, and while looking through my usual suspects, MacWorld, Linux Format, Linux Pro Magazine, iCreate, Computer Music, Layers Magazine, etc., I did something that I do every few months or so just for fun. [...]

Thesis Theme for Wordpress

David — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:13:11 +0000

It’s good to change things up once in a while. And despite my earlier post about “thinking again” before changing WordPress themes, (see this post: Changing WordPress Themes? Think Again! ), I took the plunge and paid for the Developer’s option for the Thesis Theme from DIYthemes.com. Why did I pay for a theme, when there are [...]

FreeBSD-Postfix-Dovecot-MySQL-Virtual Domains

David — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:31:43 +0000

I used this HOWTO to build a mail server (I did it within a FreeBSD jail, but that’s a completely different discussion). The instructions are complete and I got the server working relatively easily. I would suggest that before you start the HOWTO, that you install the following on your mail server first: FreeBSD Ports OpenSSL OpenSSH NTP The PORTS system [...]

Data Security on your MacBook with a Data Vault

David — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:00:11 +0000

Encrypting Files on Your Mac or MacBook There are several built-in security features that come with your Mac OS X computer. Some of the possible things that you can do to keep your data safe are: Disable automatic login Require passwords to unlock System Preferences pane Log out automatically Require password to wake computer from sleep or screen saver Use secure [...]

Using GarageBand to Transpose a Song Imported from iTunes

David — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:06:45 +0000

Do you need to transpose the pitch of a song in your iTunes library? Then this post is for you! Be forewarned, though. You can make the song sound really bad by doing this, but if you stay within one or two half-steps (one or two clicks of the slider in GarageBand), you can get [...]