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Creating Vidcasts

18 June 2007, Monday 7:05 P GMT-06
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Man, Can't Microsoft Catch A Break?

16 March 2007, Friday 12:26 P GMT-06

Viacom, Google andYou Tube, Oh My!

16 March 2007, Friday 12:25 P GMT-06

Switch to digital TV to start in October

16 March 2007, Friday 7:46 A GMT-06

Is the Ice Ready? No, Its Still To Hot To Use...

16 March 2007, Friday 7:43 A GMT-06

MIT Entire Curriculum At disposal of e-learners

6 March 2007, Tuesday 11:52 A GMT-06

A cure for e-mail attention disorder?

2 March 2007, Friday 12:51 A GMT-06
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Windows-on-Mac software gets virtualization update

1 March 2007, Thursday 5:08 A GMT-06

EnterpriseDB is/n't Open Source

1 March 2007, Thursday 3:37 A GMT-06

BitTorrent download portal debuts

27 February 2007, Tuesday 9:05 A GMT-06

$45b TXU buyout

27 February 2007, Tuesday 9:02 A GMT-06

iPhone Competitors Got The Touch

26 February 2007, Monday 3:43 A GMT-06
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HTC - Smart Mobility

25 February 2007, Sunday 4:22 A GMT-06

Hard to find 1-800 numbers

23 February 2007, Friday 8:35 A GMT-06

Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software

21 February 2007, Wednesday 3:10 A GMT-06

Vista at the tipping point, Err Dipping Point?

11 February 2007, Sunday 11:11 A GMT-06
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PostgreSQL Open Source And Persistence

3 February 2007, Saturday 10:32 P GMT-06

Blackboard Pledges No Patent Blocks

3 February 2007, Saturday 10:28 P GMT-06

UVU

5 January 2007, Friday 11:58 P GMT-06

Open-source IP PBX software appliance"

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:44 A GMT-06

Asterisk an under-appreciated Open Source Success Story

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:43 A GMT-06

Open Source AJAX Tooling

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:41 A GMT-06

Google MAIL API Secuirty Alert

1 January 2007, Monday 7:37 P GMT-06
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United States Patent Application: 0060288329

26 December 2006, Tuesday 4:00 A GMT-06

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VI - Quick Reference - Cuz I Just Can't Remember V '<,'>W Filename

3 March 2010, Wednesday 5:59 P GMT-06
 VI QUICK REFERENCE <ESC>        :q!      :wq         :w          x          

LunaScape Pops Up In The Browser Wars

23 February 2010, Tuesday 2:12 P GMT-06
Lunaspace puts MS Trident in the Hands of the Gecko for a Browsing Safari Experience that can Switch on a Dime to Webkit. Essentially three engines one browser and render our pages with a flip of a switch.

What is DYLD and how to clear the Shared Cache?

29 December 2009, Tuesday 11:41 A GMT-06
DYLD Shared Cache and how to force a refresh!

MAC OS X Promotes Safety First

5 December 2009, Saturday 11:14 A GMT-06
IN the shell issue these commands: <MANISH.zapcaster:jes> [12-05 10:41] 0 584:85  (0 Mb) ? /dev! cat /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/condom.1  <MANISH.zapcaster:jes> [12-05 10:42] 0 584:85  (0 Mb) ? /dev! cat /usr/share

OS X : Lock your DOCK and Stop Accidental Removal of Your Docked Apps

1 October 2009, Thursday 11:23 P GMT-06
Ever mishap with your mouse crusing through your desktop click, rub, stumble and chatter across the dock whilst the click persists to holding on to the DOCKED app ICON on the way of your fumbling mishap and BAM! Off goes your DOCK app...

Windows RARS and OSX Answers

8 August 2008, Friday 2:12 P GMT-06
From time to time, my clients end me RAR files and I have to UNRAR the file.I use STUFF Expander but recently found The Unarchiver tool for OSX which does a nice job.   Nothing exciting for an archinver just awareness of the tool &nb

OS X Finder : How to Reveal Hidden Files in Finder

13 July 2008, Sunday 9:56 A GMT-06
You ever need to know what the hidden files are in a certain directory? Usually, going to the terminal one could easily view and edit the hidden files, ie: .htacess. However, what if you wanted to grab a directory and move it to an FTP client

When Your MAC Hangs Get Access from the Keyboard?

11 April 2008, Friday 7:02 P GMT-06
How does one initiate a CTL=ALT-DEL from a MAC. Four intersting series of keystrokes you can use to battle stalled apps, MACs and the dreaded reboot.

THE 2008 ENTOURAGE Challenge: Import OS X's Address Book

1 April 2008, Tuesday 12:49 P GMT-06
You figure in 2008 a simple import of a CSV file would not be difficult for Microsoft.  Well, think again.  I do use apple mail for some of my email addresses, but for work, I gave up fighting the battle and just use Entourage.

Sudo Gem Install Mysql - On OS X With Proper Parameters

27 March 2008, Thursday 7:06 A GMT-06
I had to install, fresh, Ruby On Rails this evening.  I ran into a little road bump when issuing sudo gem install mysql on OS X.The script prints out to the terminal:! sudo gem install mysqlSelect which gem to install for your platform (i68

UNAME : YOUSYSTEM : YOUDETAILS

19 February 2008, Tuesday 5:21 P GMT-06
uname, it's your friend baby!

Hollywood Still in The Mindset of "The Talkies": Apple Denies Screen Capture Whilst the DVD Player Is Active

30 January 2008, Wednesday 5:51 P GMT-06
I was working whilst watching a DVD and attempted to capture a BROWSER Windows via OSX's key sequence screen capture. I had the distinct pleasure of OSX's Denial of a Screen Capture Whilst the DVDPlayer was running.

MAC OSX - Bash Command Line Keystrokes

27 December 2007, Thursday 2:23 P GMT-06
Command line keystrokes to get the most out of the command line in the Bash Shell.

Cruzing Apps from Space To Space: OS X Spaces

9 November 2007, Friday 12:00 A GMT-06
Have you used spaces yet?  Or are you still stuck in virtu-desktop.Leopard brings us virtual desktops through spaces.  And of course its setup for 4 spaces.  BUt I am a glutten for punishment so I use 6  and I am thinking about 8.

Java 1.6 & Leopard OS X

8 November 2007, Thursday 5:11 P GMT-06
So, what gives Gosling not carrying a MAC http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/29/no_java_for_leopard/    

Fire Off A GUI App Whilst in OS X Terminal

8 November 2007, Thursday 4:37 P GMT-06
Using OPEN to launch OS X GUIs from the command line

MYSQL - Lost Password - No Sweat Until You Meet OS X

23 September 2007, Sunday 10:41 P GMT-06
Lost MYSQL Password, have access to your database in 3 minutes flat!

Need an IPOD that Sends Email & Surfs the net? IPHONE & Kill the SIM

8 July 2007, Sunday 11:02 A GMT-06
If you activate your iPhone as a prepaid card or have an old SIM card the iPhones behavior in terms of email and surfing the web through WIFI is still functional.When extracting the SIM card with a paperclip by pushing one end into the top hole of th

Grab, Compile and Install GNU WGET 4 OS X

20 May 2007, Sunday 11:35 P GMT-06
Look, if you're not using wget you're missing out on a fabulous tool. The instructions below provide you with the proper way to download the package, compile the source and install wget into /usr/local/bin. If you choose another directory to instal

Installing OpenOffice 2.2 On MAC OS X

15 April 2007, Sunday 7:48 P GMT-06
Since we already have X11 installed from our GIMP installation it makes perfect sense to install OpenOffice 2.2.

Installing Gimp On MAC OS X

14 April 2007, Saturday 11:17 P GMT-06
First Thing is first, you need X11 installed on OS X.  The quickest way to accomplish this installation is to get the Mac OS X Install Disc 1. Select the optional installs package from the Installation DVD a seen below:    

Ever Want To Inspect Ram In Real-Time? Enter TOP

21 March 2006, Tuesday 12:00 A GMT-06
Nothing new here just a tool that hs been around awhile and provides some real value we inspecting ram usage in OS X. Though, TOP is used primarily for updates about processes it also shows information about memeory usage.

Enter MacBook Pro

17 March 2006, Friday 11:59 P GMT-06
Yesterday, I got my Macbook Pro. It's a quick little bugger and sitting next to my 17" powerbook is just flat out faster. The productivity gain as whole is immediately seen from compiles to launching applications! Of course, bl

Apache & Tomcat

8 March 2006, Wednesday 12:26 A GMT-06
Just a quick entry about Apache servlet passing to Tomcat. If you have worked with Apache and used the mod_jk in Windows (Since I'm normally in Linux/Mac OS X) it always appears a little different. If you keep up with the newest version Apache

Lost in Your FIREFOX TABS??? FoxPose It?

21 February 2006, Tuesday 4:15 P GMT-06
Ever get lost in the cornucopia of tabs you have opened in your FireFox Browser??? I do, all the time!! Its a drag! Perusing the Firefox plugins about two months ago, I found an awesome tool Vimatic FoXpose.