Install Leopard on Quicksilver PowerMac G4

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

I recently acquired a PowerMac G4 (800MHz, 768MB RAM, CDRW) and I want to use it as my computer at home. It runs Tiger just fine, but I wanted to put Leopard on it. Attempt #1: External Hard Drive Since the PowerMac ...

Defeat Annoying “Open Link in New Window” in Safari

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Tips | 2 Comments »

I am absolutely sick of link that opens in a new window and the new Safari 3 has just the solution -- "Merge All Windows" -- anytime there are more than one window of Safari open, just select from the ...

Cmd-? Still Works on OSX!!

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Thoughts | No Comments »

I was just browsing the Flickr set for the Apple //c unboxing I noticed at the bottom of this photo: ... it says Cmd-? for Help. Since I never used to access the help files on OSX, I was surprised to ...

A Quote

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 Posted in Quotes | No Comments »

DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches ...

Even More Ways to Shop with Paypal Plug-in

Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in News | No Comments »

I absolutely love Paypal. I use it whenever possible. But still, there have been instances where Paypal is not accepted (i.e. Apple online store). Now Paypal offers Paypal Plug-in which will generate a secure credit card number for wherever credit ...

iPhone IMEI Tracking

Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted in News | No Comments »

Uneasy Silence recently discovered (and was confirmed by TUAW) that he Stocks and Weather widget on the iPhone apparently contact Apple's server with URLs containing the phone IMEI number. I use a iPhone in Canada with the Fido network and so ...