Archive for July, 2009

Font Families – just like real families, they don’t get along sometimes

Posted: 30th July 2009 by tcg in blogging, website design
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I’ve noticed of late that some WordPress theme designers like the font family “Trajan Pro” which while it works fine on windows pc’s, only displays as UPPERCASE on my mac regardless of whether i use firefox, safari, or google chrome.  The trouble is that the mac doesn’t have that font available so it substitutes one [...]

Moving TimeMachine backups to a larger disk

Posted: 28th July 2009 by admin in Apple, backup, Mac OSX
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I have been using a slightly undersized external hard drive for some time as my TimeMachine backup disk and got tired of it always being nearly full and having to limit what was being backed up so i decided to move it to a larger disk and was pleasantly surprised to find it was not [...]

MainMenu Updates: read the fine print

Posted: 18th July 2009 by admin in Mac OSX, software
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A friend alerted me to the fact that there was an update to a program i use occasionally called MainMenu. its a simple GUI way to run some of the chron scripts remove caches, etc in Mac OS X. The sneaky part that caused my warning to all to read the fine print is that [...]

Dropbox: another little known gem

Posted: 15th July 2009 by admin in backup, computers, Mac OSX, software, Windows
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Continuing with my theme of “how did i not know about this app?” i’ve been using a free little gem called Dropbox for a while now and find it to be one of those apps that you wonder how you ever got along without. Dropbox is a cross platform app, so once installed your files [...]