Category: How-To

Click here to see full size image I rarely use this feature but Ed does. He asked me this afternoon how if possible could you change the amount of Recent Items displayed. I rarely if ever turn down a challenge when trying to figure out how something works on OS X. After a quick Google…

While perusing the Small Dog K&B archives I came across this article in which Don was wishing for a nice, simple and easy upgrading utility so that one could easily move their old files and applications to their new Mac. Here’s a a small excerpt from the article: How do you do it? I know…

If you want to add that really cool mirror effect to your images then Picturesque is probably the easiest way to get it done. You also add other neat effects like a border around the image, glow, rounded edges, shadow and you can resize the image. Picturesque is available as a demo and will leave…

by Matt@Smalldog.com (posted By Ed, written by Matt@Smalldog.com) A very vigilant customer bought a new Mac Mini over the weekend at our Burlington store to replace his Dell running Windows XP Pro. After identity theft, virus infestations, spyware slowdowns, and incessant blue screens of death, he was excited about moving over to the Mac. However,…

This is for you MySQL users out there. This nifty script really helps with backing up your MySQL databases. It even has rotation and it can email you the backed up databases or just a log of what happened. I currently use it on 4 of my servers and now that I’ve setup shared keys…

I found this nifty little trick while looking around Digg.com. It allows you to skin or theme Google Reader (http://reader.google.com) and it sure does look better then the default! You can use Mozilla Firefox, Camino, Safari, OmniWeb, and Opera. I tried it out on FireFox so it was pretty simple. You need to download and…

I absolutely love the new Airport, it supports logging and statistics and supports SNMP which means I can graph the incoming and outgoing traffic using MRTG! There’s another cool and new feature, AirDisk. AirDisk allows you to share the connected hard drive(s) over the local network and the internet which sounds really cool except for…

This is an article aimed at mostly system administrators and people that use SSH on a daily basis to connect to remote clients and servers. I myself have been wanting to set this up for quite some time and now I’ve found the time and need too! I currently have multiple servers each running several…

Actually, you have access lots of accents, all at once! Did you know that your Mac can very simply type a number of foreign language accents automatically with a simple keystroke under most applications and fonts? I’ve know how to type the accents used by the German language for a while as I often use…

We recently relaunched our Mac Basics classes. One of the most common questions from recent switchers (besides “can I use a right click mouse”) is how to forward delete, as can easily be done on a Windows PC. Somewhat confusingly, some people simply call forward deleting “delete,” and the backwards deleting Mac users are used…