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Windows tool to clean up OS X junk files

October 28, 2010 – 12:13 am

I wrote a little old-school Windows HTA script to delete the .DS_Store, .Trashes, and ._* junk files and directories typically littered across non-HFS media by Mac OS X: You can download it from my GitHub account if you have a … Continue reading »

Exporting AddressBook birthdays to Remind

May 20, 2007 – 12:06 pm

I always thought I was a bit of an oddball for choosing the ancient scheduler Remind as my favorite OS X calendar software. But as it turns out, I’m not quite as alone as I had assumed. I guess OS … Continue reading »

halfdim

February 7, 2007 – 9:41 am

It seems to be a commonly experienced problem with the Intel rendition of OS X 10.4 that some power management settings, such as the halfdim pmset parameter (a.k.a., “automatically reduce the brightness of the display before display sleep”) may be … Continue reading »

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Apple battery recall

August 24, 2006 – 3:53 pm

Probably to help ensure that this doesn’t happen to anyone else, Apple has decided to recall more than a million batteries shipped with its G4 iBook and PowerBook computers from October 2003 through 2006: More information can be found on … Continue reading »

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