Brian McKinney, who runs Chicago’s Chocolate Lab Records, claimed at the weekend that iTunes charges a $10,000 production fee for iTunes LP, a new digital format that pairs additional content such as lyrics and videos with album downloads. In a follow up email, Mckinney adds, “I should note that it is currently possible to design an […]
VMware Fusion 2.0.6 Update Now Available VMware Fusion 2.0.6 is a free update for all VMware Fusion 1.x and VMware Fusion 2.x users. You can download the bits here. VMware Fusion 2.0.6 fixes multiple issues when running VMware Fusion 2.0.x on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (32-bit kernel mode), including: Mouse losing focus on Snow […]
Folks, Here’s the first thoughts on the 2412U…. (Please note, my first glance at the 2413U is here) The first issue to realize is that the 2412U is slightly more complex then the 2414U to use with Indigo. Â Currently it requires a driver to be installed, before it can be used by Indigo… Â I assume […]
XP and Vista have the ‘feature’ of automated background defragmenting enabled by default, you might wish to disable this. How do I disable the Windows built-in defragger? Download the free * Tweak UI utility from Micorosft. Click on ‘General’ and untick the ‘Optimise hard disk when idle’ box. Windows Vista: Start -> All Programs -> Accessories […]
A Federal judge in Seattle has held that IP Addresses are not personal information. Â The argument states that to be personally identifying, it must identify a person, but IP Addresses identify a computer. What does that mean for the average joe? Â An IP Address is the network equivalent of a telephone number. Â It is not […]
Have you ever wanted to quickly switch from High Performance to Power Saver mode to save some battery life? With a quick command line in a shortcut, you can do it with a keystroke. Here’s a quick-and-dirty method to create a shortcut for switching between Windows power management plans—and once you have the command line, […]
If you’ve ever wanted to remotely reboot a Windows box from your machine, the following tip can be useful… Any Macintosh OS X system can reboot a windows machine, assuming that you know the credentials of an Administrative Account on the Windows system. Â Open the Terminal and use the following command line: net rpc shutdown […]
There have been reports of slow boot ups when running Windows Vista… Â But so far far, it appears to be a variety of issues… Â One issue is the GPCLIENT service taking an long time to startup during boot up… Check your DNS settings on the Vista client, and make sure that the Fastest DNS server […]