Solving technology problems, one at a time
Other Mac OS X updates have gone more smoothly for me. Here are the problems I’ve noticed so far: Safari 3 seems to have trouble with interpreting clicks, particularly from devices like the Kensington Trackball
Continue readingMy old first-generation iPod finally gave up the ghost a few months ago. It showed the Folder-with-a-questionmark icon, no matter what I did. I fully charged it, attempted to restore it, reset it numerous times,
Continue readingThanks to Dave Taylor, I now have the PandaCam widget visible on my desktop all the time. No need to hit F12 to see if the Pandas are doing something cute. Per Dave’s instructions, just
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My iPhone started displaying a “No Service” message a few days ago. When it didn’t go away, I called the ATT Wireless people. Here are the easy steps to cure the problem:
Continue readingHigh-resolution Photoshop brushes based on Ernst Haeckel’s engravings of shells and sea jellies. Great used as stamps, or the spiky shells look particularly good when you use scattering and angle and opacity jitter. Download
Continue readingThis is my second set of brushes based on Haeckel’s drawings of diatoms, coral and other sea creatures. 11 different brushes are included, many with variations in opacity, spacing, size jitter, etc. Download file
Continue readingBecause I don’t use the command line that much, I usually forget this incredibly simple thing when it comes up: how to change to another drive using the command line (the DOS prompt). For example
Continue readingAfter a recent update to Firefox, all my precious debugging extensions disappeared. The Add-on’s window showed nothing installed. This post on the MozillaZine Forums explained how to force Firefox to rescan your addons and get
Continue readingFor the last week I’ve been getting “Startup disk is almost full” messages, and spent a lot of time cleaning house, only to have it nearly full again the next day. The X Lab suggests
Continue readingWhile working on a php insert-record form I was getting the error: #1062 – Duplicate entry ‘127’ for key 1 although there were no other records with the id “127” – just the latest one.
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