There is an article in today's Unplggd blog about why monochrome laser printers still make sense in today's office. The article says that in most offices, what's being printed is documents--letters, agreements, emails, proposals. None of this derives any benefit from being in color instead of black ...
How to back up your iPhoto images
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. 1. In the Dock, click on the Finder (the blue face). 2. A Finder window pops up. In the window, on the left-hand side under ...
Is your Time Machine really backing up your Mac?
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 ...
Hacking the Voting Machine to Run Pac-Man
I just started reading the Freedom to Tinker blog, which is about "your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own." It's hosted by Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, and posts are written by faculty and students. A recent post ...
3 ideas for how to create strong passwords
We all know how important it is to choose a password that's easy for us to remember, but difficult for others to guess. Ideally it should have a combination of letters and numbers, uppercase and lowercase. Here are a few ideas for creating secure passwords. 1. Choose a phrase or sentence that ...
How to Back Up your Entourage Email on your Mac
Are you using Entourage for email, and Time Machine for backup? Entourage stores all email in one giant database, which gets bigger every time you get or send an email. And having a big database means frequent database corruption. Time Machine backs up everything new once an hour, which means ...