I read a post on the Small Dog blog today called "Protecting Your Photographs." Essentially the post says that if you have a digital camera that you use with any frequency, then you probably have years and years of important photos on your computer. Now imagine your photos disappearing tomorrow. How ...
Find and eliminate duplicate files on your Mac
We just finished a big job for a client: She had tens of thousands of image files on her Mac, and most of them were duplicates, which she wanted to eliminate. But the duplicates were not always named the same, nor were they always the same file size, or even the same type of file. What to do? We ...
Seven note-taking applications for the Mac
Do you have hundreds of Word or text documents scattered all over your desktop, each one with a nugget of information, or last week’s meeting notes, or contents of an article you want to save for possible future reference? And then you realize that you’ll never be able to find the contents from any ...
Incredible illustrations for your website, for dirt cheap
I’ve used photographs from iStockphoto for websites. For less than $50 (often less than $10!) you can get incredible photography from amateur photographers around the world. The selection is huge, and you can search by keyword. And the photos are royalty-free, meaning that you pay just once upfront ...
Easy Archiving of Entourage Emails
What do you do when your Entourage email database gets huge? The best thing to do is to archive some of it. For example, perhaps every January you'd like to archive all emails older than 2 years. Well there are 2 different easy ways to do it. A program that’s been around for years and years is ...
Do the Geek Squads Actually Know What They’re Doing?
An article by Charles Passy in today's Wall Street Journal entitled "Can Big-Box Merchants Fix Your Computer?" is his tale of taking 4 computers to 3 different large retailers that offer computer repair, plus sending one away to a fourth company. The three retailers, Best Buy (Geek Squad), Office ...