I wanted to use a network share for my time machine backup. I setup a samba share, and thought I would be good to go until I got a message “the backup disk image … could not be created (error 45)”. So I went to google and did some research. The first [...]

Want to copy *everything* from one drive to another, or make a complete backup of your stuff. Well, forget about using the age old drag and drop method, one might think using the cp would be sufficient, but again: no. The ultimate solution is robocopy.
Robocopy is a simple tool you can download from [...]

Tweaked the standard Aqua Blue Mac background, added a paper cut out of our son Noah. Enjoy.

One thing I deeply missed when I started using a mac as my main system was the auto-capitliazation of the letter “i”. When I was typing an email, or document it was almost second nature to just type “i” because I knew that Word would have me covered and auto-capitlize that puppy into “I”. I [...]

Say your company has blocked twitter and/or you don’t like all the extra bloat on the twitter home page. I have found it very useful to create my own page. Even though facebook and other social networking sites are accessible, and even more ironically some of my companies own advertising actually promotes following [...]