Every once in a while, not a whole lot, but more than mac finantics are willing to admit: My mac goes wack, and for whatever reason my only hope is to either log out, or force the machine down (hold down power button for 10 seconds). Well, as I enjoy a long uptime just as [...]

I just got a brand new macbook. The White unibody kind. It’s actually for my wife. Here’s a screen shot of the brand new battery to use as a reference point. Notice the cycle count and full charge capacity.

Wireless connection problem. Extremely slow wireless connectivity at home and work. Called apple care, they had me delete files: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist, /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist, /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.network.identification.plist, /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist And restart. You’ll have to re-add the wireless network settings you once had, but this should fix the problem.

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 [...]

Using geek tool to display the calendar and system status information. Changed the folder icons of a ‘Tickler’ folder and ‘temp’ folder, also the appearance of the Hard drive. In the Menu bar I’ve got: Quicksilver Adium Coffee Syngergy MenuMeters Time Machine Volume Spaces Wifi Date/time Battery Spotlight