I was a Windows user for almost 20 years. First with MS-DOS, and progressing till Windows XP, I decided to make the switch to a Mac, and with it, made the choice to go completely wireless with my keyboard and mouse. At first, I decided to keep it all under one roof and get an [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 23, 2010
I’ve recently gotten more active with tweeting, and I’m trying out twitter clients such as TweetDeck and HootSuite. I think they’re great ideas, and what they’re doing currently is great. What I found was that the two applications were pretty similar. TweetDeck is a Rich Internet Application built on Adobe AIR, which allows it to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 1, 2010
In MySQL, you have a root user, and you’re able to create other users and grant them varying levels of permissions or privileges to access/create/modify MySQL databases. One thing that you might not know is the ability to create an anonymous user, which means that you (and your applications) can connect to your database without [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
While on my Mac, I use the list view in Finder a lot. One thing I had mixed feelings about is the tree-like view that expands folders. It was great, but I wanted a way to quickly collapse or expand folders – and I found out how! So to quickly expand or collapse folders, all [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
I wanted dual monitors with my Macbook Pro, but it isn’t possible without buying a graphics splitter like the Matrox DualHead2Go or Matrox TripleHead2Go. Problem is, there’s a problem with the new unibody Macbook Pros with these splitters – apparently the video output doesn’t work that well. I think it’s still possible though, but I [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
I was using jDownloader for the Mac and while it was great software, it was coded in Java, making it non-native. I don’t mind the interface being different, but the start-up time was incredible slow. So I tried out Speed Download to see if it was good, and I have to say that it was [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
My new RadTech BT600 Bluetooth Mouse came today! It’s a full-sized, 5-button Bluetooth laser mouse, with a standard form factor. It looks pretty good, with a professional-looking box, and has a nice design and finishing. The reason why I was looking for another mouse was that I was using a Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse, but [...]
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
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