Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Leopard Disk Utility Format Issue Screws With Time Machine: How to Fix It

The bad news is, we have discovered a Leopard-related issue that may very well throw a monkey wrench into your Time Machine. Anyone trying to use Time Machine with a previously PC-formatted drive could be at risk. The good news is, there is an easy—albeit none-too-obvious—fix.

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Eye-Fi Adds Wi-Fi to Almost Any Digital Camera

The Eye-Fi. It's an SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to any camera. Plus the free Eye-Fi service supports automatic uploads to 20 different web photo sites (like Flickr) as well as a computer on your home network.

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Smoked Glass Dock for Leopard - Much Nicer!

By simply replacing 4 files you can completely alter how the dock looks. Try out this dark dock, it's much nicer.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Replace the Leopard's login screen background!! [pic]

Simply replace this file:/System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg

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Mac4Lin - Mac OS X Leopard Is Coming to Your Linux Desktop

Do you want to give your desktop a dash of Mac OS X? The goal of this project is to bring the look and feel of Mac OS X (latest being 10.5, Leopard) on *nix GTK based systems. This document will present the procedure to install Mac4Lin pack & tweak certain things to get that almost perfect Mac OS X like desktop.

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Leopard: Should you upgrade?

After having quite the heated discussion about whether people should upgrade to Leopard now or not.Here are the results

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Skip the machine, Get a real human ASAP

GetHuman contains shortcuts to skip the automated phone systems of over 500 customer service call centers. If you're an impatient customer like me, and want a real human right away, this is a lifesaver!

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How to Install Leopard from a DMG

Let's say that your Mac doesn't have a dual-layer DVD burner - er, I mean DVD reader. This guide shows you how to install Leopard from a DMG without burning anything.

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Run Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) from your USB Flash Drive

This tutorial enables you to install, boot and run Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) from USB. In addition to installing Ubuntu to a USB device and then booting Ubuntu from USB, this tutorial will enable you to automatically save your changes and settings back to the stick and further restore them on each boot.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

How to Create an "Invisible" Folder for Your, um, "Private" Files

You ever have a folder on your computer that you really dont want any one to find? You can make this folder hidden but then you have to un-hide all the folders when ever you want to find it. So how can you make a folder truly invisible? Follow these simple steps and your unmentionables will stay that way

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