Tag Archive for 'tips'

One Boot Fits All

iMac discWhile people would rarely choose to share their boots, its perfectly acceptable to share ones boot disk. Amongst your computers that is. After a series of unfortunate events surrounding my Mac OS X Leopard disc, I found that there are many ways you can get a fresh copy of OS X running on your Mac.

It started a few months ago when I got my new iMac. Long story short; it was a disaster, I got a new one, its a little off as well.. Anyways, it scratched my Leopard DVD. No problem though, I acquired a new image and tried to burn it to a double-layer DVD. Toast quit halfway through and seems to have toasted the DVD drive. The half-baked disc was stuck in my iMac and the drive isn’t recognized anymore. This pushed me to find a different way to install OS X, and I learned a lot in the process.

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MobileMe Without the MassiveFee

Want to sync to your address book, calendar, and bookmarks? Don’t want to pay $100 a year? Doh. That’s the answer of yesterday, because I’ve got some news for you. Now you can sync your stuff seamlessly and for FREE. That’s right, after waiting on a little or no cost solution for years; someone has finally stepped up to the plate. Fruux is an amazing service available to us Mac OS X users at literally no cost (in dollars, mental anguish or otherwise).

fruux is a lightweight and convenient system preference pane, that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks and Bookmarks between different Macs.

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Snail Pictures

I met a little snail in the garden the other day. He looked cool, but the first photos I took didn’t have enough colour. I tried moving him for different backgrounds, but no matter where I put him the focal point was something else. The pictures were boring.

Then I saw this flower, and to my surprise the combination of the two worked really well. The flower pulls the eye in and then pushes it over to the little snail. Separately I don’t think the snail or flower would have made for great photos on this background, but they do make a great team. Check out the rest of the photos on my Flickr.