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Apple’s Magic Trackpad, a Website Designer and Photographers Thoughts

August 10, 2010

It finally came in. My glorious flat little magical device. I thought I would share some of my thoughts on how this little device works and how it will help me as a website designer and photographer. The Magic Trackpad is a desktop version of what the newer Macbook and Macbook Pro model Apple laptops [...]

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Tech Advice: Recovering Lost Files From Devices

August 3, 2010

I get emails pretty often that start out like this: HALP! I deleted my music on accident, can you help me get it back? Music, Photos, or any precious file(s) can be restored (maybe) if you take action quickly. The following will (should, maybe) work on all media devices such as iPhones, iPods, External Hard [...]

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Tutorial: Creating a Custom Brush in Photoshop

July 13, 2010

I am often asked how I manage watermarking my images. Most of the time I place the logo in different corners. In the past I would create an action to do this simple step, but when I would apply my action to images with different dimensions I would run into issues with the placement of [...]

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Horrible iTunes Audio Quality Fix

April 17, 2010

Since I bought my Mac Mini I have experienced horrible audio quality out of iTunes. The issue was only with iTunes. In an attempt to narrow the problem down I downloaded Songbird, which is Mozilla’s version of iTunes. Audio was fine in all other applications. I would listen to the same song anywhere else and [...]

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Forward Your iPhone VoiceMail to Your Google Voice

March 24, 2010

One Voicemail To Rule Them All! – Gone are the days of checking multiple voicemails. For years now I have used Phonetag.com, originally named Simulscribe to transcribe my voicemails. Up until Google recently updated their transcription service Phonetag.Com had them beat hands down. It was also easier to use Phonetag because they were a voicemail [...]

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Why You Need A Free DropBox Account

October 14, 2009

Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. It also serves many other functions. Let me describe how I use Dropbox and how I think it can benefit you. Backup This is the number one reason I use Dropbox. I am the king of backup. In the past I have lost [...]

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Just Finished Installing Snow Leopard

August 28, 2009

Well I just installed Snow Leopard. Despite the 58 minutes it quoted at the beginning of the install process, it ended up taking about 30 minutes. My laptop was pretty warm after the install, however it was sitting on a couch so that may have played a part in it. Here is an article from [...]

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Plugin Crashing Safari

June 16, 2009

I recently upgraded Safari to the latest version and upon attempting to launch the app had it crash. The error that was given pointed blame at a plugin. I looked in the normal Library directory where I figured plugins for Safari would be held with no such luck. After much searching and “Spotlight” was no [...]

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Tweetadder – Twitter Marketing Software

May 26, 2009

I know exactly what you are thinking, you are rolling your eyes at the idea of a Twitter bot. You may even remember how annoying they were when used incorrectly on Myspace. I want to share my experiences with Tweetadder and explain to you why it is a must have tool for anyone who takes [...]

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Must Have Mac Menu Bar Apps

February 5, 2009

Updated: 4/28/09 Some of my Mac’s RAM is consumed by some highly useful apps that constantly run from startup to shutdown on my Mac. Below are these apps, why I use them and a link to download them. Caffeine Caffeine is a simple but useful app that keeps your mac from going to sleep. This [...]

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