Automator is an under-rated application that shipped with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. It allows mere mortals to create small applications that simplify repetitive tasks; kind of like your own personal robot. Many people haven’t yet embraced the full potential of Automator, so here I present a few simple Automator workflows you may use. This [...]

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Email may be a necessary evil. With so many messages being sent on a daily basis, it becomes very hard to get away from it all. But what if you really do need to maintain communication with people while you’re gone? Setting up an auto reply is an easy way of notifying people that you’re [...]

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After 3 years of using a D-Link wired router and Apple Airport Express to provide wireless network access in my house, I decided to upgrade to an Apple Airport Extreme with Gigabit. I thought that it was time to move into the future with a router that provides Wireless Draft N speed, along with compatibility [...]

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When I upgraded to Leopard, I was excited to use Time Machine and finally have a way of backing up my important files. I did not have an extremely large backup drive, however, so I was forced to backup to a 40GB drive from my old iBook that I put inside a FireWire enclosure. Naturally [...]

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You’ll notice that this blog is quite a bit different than the default setup of a regular WordPress blog. I’ve changed a few things to the design and code to make it do exactly what I’m looking for. Besides my custom design, I have a few WordPress Plugins that make this site work. Plugins in [...]

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