Category: 764: Tracking Your Every Move, Don’t Stack Laptops, 64-bit!, Terminal Tricks

Are you a command line junky? Or just a command line aficionado that would like to spiff up your terminal windows? If so, wonderful–you, my friend, should most definitely read on. In Mac OS X, the Terminal application provides the user with a multitude of customizable items. To start, in Terminal Preferences, under the Settings…

When Apple introduced the Power Mac G5 in 2003, it was touted as “The world’s first 64-bit personal computer.” This was due to its IBM PowerPC G5 processor’s 64-bit architecture, which enabled the Power Mac G5 to break through the 4GB barrier and support up to 8GB of RAM. 64-bit hardware has been around since…

One of our corporate clients came to us last spring with a MacBook Pro having sleep issues. Specifically, it would go to sleep as soon as it powered on and then not wake up. The machine performed normally for us and passed all diagnostic evaluations. We talked with the client and sent the machine back…

You may have recently read something about your iPhone or iPad tracking and storing information about your location, wherein that data would be saved–unencrypted–on any machine you’ve used to connect. It’s true, and after syncing my phone to my work machine machine, and using “iPhoneTracker,”:http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ I can see everywhere I have been in the past…

Happy Tuesday, It was a driving kind of weekend as I headed south to Dutchess County, New York and the northwest corner of Connecticut to spend time with family for the holiday weekend. Leaving home in wet slush and sleet, it was reassuring to see the road conditions improve around Hancock, especially since my summer…