‘Caroline’s posts’ Archive

Do black and white laser printers still make sense? September 1, 2010 1 Comment

Monochrome laser printers still make sense in most offices: printing is inexpensive, the machines rarely break down, the toner cartridges last forever. We still recommend black and white lasers to most of our clients.

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How to back up your iPhoto images August 26, 2010 No Comments

If you want to back up just your iPhoto images (your library) to an external source, such as a hard drive or CD/DVD, you need to know where to find them. Here’s what to do.

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Is your Time Machine really backing up your Mac? August 23, 2010 3 Comments

We’ve seen more than a few horror stories of people whose computer drives failed, and then they found out their Time Machine backups hadn’t been backing up in months! Time Machine is not infallible, it doesn’t work correctly 100% of the time. To prevent this from happening to you, check your Time Machine backup every [...]

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Hacking the Voting Machine to Run Pac-Man August 19, 2010 No Comments

Hacking voting machines to run Pac-Man is an example of “your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own” as per the Freedom to Tinker blog.

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3 ideas for how to create strong passwords August 18, 2010 No Comments

3 ideas for how to create secure passwords, that include a combination of numbers and letters, and uppercase and lowercase.

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How to Back Up your Entourage Email on your Mac August 7, 2010 No Comments

Step by step instructions for backing up the Entourage email database on your Mac.

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Organizing and Syncing Files on your Mac Computers with SugarSync August 6, 2010 3 Comments

Instructions on the easiest way to use SugarSync to synchronize files between Mac computers.

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How to Set Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts on the Mac August 5, 2010 3 Comments

Instructions on how to set your own keyboard shortcuts on the Mac, for any application.

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Why Jailbreak Your iPhone? August 4, 2010 No Comments

A blog post at one of my favorite Apple blogs, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (or TUAW) asks the question, Why jailbreak your phone? Now that iOS 4 (the operating system for the new iPhone 4) can be jailbroken simply by going to a website, it’s easier than ever before to do it. Even if you’re [...]

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Make Your Own Books with Blurb Software August 3, 2010 No Comments

You may already be making books and cards using the built-in capabilities of iPhoto. But there are other sources out there for making books too. Blurb is a piece of software you download to your computer. It’s for Mac and Windows. Then you paste images and text, you can resize images, you can format text, [...]

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