A special guest posting from Scott Theede: Have you ever been experimenting with iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and your free trial has run out leaving you unable to make any changes to your documents? There’s a quick way to get around that restriction, say if you needed to have a fully functional keynote for an […]
Cleaning/Replacing a MacBook Key
If, for some reason, you decide to pull a key off your MacBook (or in my case, BlackBook) keyboard and can’t figure out how to put it back on, there’s a great little walk-thru on flickr. Here’s a link to the set or you can watch the slideshow below. By the way, there’s plenty of […]
Keychain cannot be found message after upgrade install
If you’ve recently upgraded to Flash Player version 10, you may be seeing something similar to this: Keychain “name” cannot be found to store “sampleitem“ Your keychain may have been renamed, deleted, or it’s on a unmounted volume. You can then click Cancel or Reset To Defaults. The alert may appear again. Here’s a link to […]
Hawk Wings Flies Again
HawkWing.net is a great blog for finding tips, tricks and fixes for Mail.app — the default email client on a Mac. The site was dormant for awhile, but recently woke up and has resumed posting. Interesting side note, it’s run by Tim Gaden who is Dean of the Theological School , College Chaplain and Stewart Lecturer […]

Is the iPhone / iPod touch 3.0 Software Update Worth It?
Chances are you’ve seen the news about the iPhone 3.0 Software Update that Apple recently released. For iPhone users, it’s a free upgrade so it isn’t really a question of whether it would be worth it — free is free! For iPod touch users though, due to the way Apple does their books on the iPod […]
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We got tired of the old look, so we broke out something new. Hopefully you’ll find this setup a little easier to find the latest content on the site, as well as popular tags/categories/comments from the past. Enjoy!
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Create a Folder Containing Your Current Selection
Create a folder containing your current selection by choosing File > New Folder with Selection or by pressing Control-Command-N (⌃⌘N).
Handy as hell.
Six Unexpected Uses for the Application Switcher
I didn’t know about half of these.
Tip: save a copy of your Mac’s Apple System Profiler report to your Dropbox folder. If your Mac dies you’ll have exactly what you lost.
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