Category Archives: Computers

Sanity Pasting

By raishad | Published: January 18, 2011

Hooray for Word 2011 for getting something right! There is finally a menu option for “Paste and Match Formatting” But what’s with that horrible shortcut? I need to shift my hand to hit all those keys. Let’s reassign it to something more manageable in the Keyboard Pane in System Preferences Brilliant! (Why did I have [...]

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The MacBU, Equal Parts Applause and Condemnation

By raishad | Published: November 13, 2010

Does anyone at the MacBU use a Mac? I just upgraded to Office 2011, and in some ways it is really nice. But in other ways, it’s annoying the pants off of me. Find and Replace The new Find and Replace is nice. I like how it’s in the toolbar, and the search pane is [...]

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why iTunes 10 will be like 1984

By raishad | Published: September 2, 2010

It’s so drab Also, I hate the close/minimize/zoom buttons

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First Impression is Everything

By raishad | Published: August 1, 2010

Starcraft 2 came out last week on both the Mac and Windows simultaneously. Great news! (If you don’t know, I hate rebooting into Windows for the games I barely play.) Aside from the performance disparity between platforms, Blizzard needs to polish off the rough edges on the MacOS version. If you got the game from [...]

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The Tedious Way

By raishad | Published: July 29, 2010

Earlier this week, I needed to make an animated gif. Needed. If you have ImageReady, it is pretty easy to do. But what do you do if you don’t have ImageReady? Well I’m here for you and Future Raishad First things Get a Mac. (This is for the next step) Install MacPorts Install gifsicle (Really, [...]

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My Killer App

By raishad | Published: April 4, 2010

Yes, I got an iPad. I was always planning to get one really. But I didn’t want to seem over eager. I couldn’t reserve one sight unseen. That’s what I told myself. But then last week – with all the announcements and reviews – I couldn’t say no to the building iPad momentum. So on [...]

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Craigslist Fun?

By raishad | Published: February 10, 2010

So in preparation for the iPad and in the spirit of simplifying my life, I’ve decided to get rid of extra computers. I’m in the process of switching from a giant Linux file server to a tiny ReadyNAS NAS. And I’ve decided to get rid of my Dell laptops. I have a Dell Vostro A90 [...]

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Adium Chat History making you :(

By raishad | Published: December 13, 2009

Quit Adium and Delete ~/Library/Caches/Adium/Default/DirtyLogs.plist ~/Library/Caches/Adium/Default/Logs.index When Adium restarts and you open up the transcript viewer, Adium will reindex everything.

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UVerse has me by the balls

By raishad | Published: April 23, 2009

It’s true. They know they have the best product available. And they know that they will really, really, really, really have to piss me off before I switch to another service. My Residential Gateway has been resetting sporadically for the past 2 months. Note the word sporadically. sporadic |spəˈradik|adjectiveoccurring at irregular intervals or only in [...]

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‘A Volume Failed To Mount’ + Netatalk

By raishad | Published: March 3, 2009

Are you getting errors like ‘A Volume Failed To Mount’ after you upgrade Netatalk? Delete the .AppleD* folders at the root of your shares. Or just mv them to a backup if you don’t trust me. .AppleDB/ .AppleDesktop/ .AppleDouble/

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