Dear Restaurant, I really enjoy your comestibles! But your website makes it a little hard to find the information I need. When I go to a restaurant website, I’m usually out somewhere, hungry, accessing it from my phone, and I’m looking for these three things, in this order: Hours, so I can see if you’re …
Figlio was my first real pet, and by “real,” I mean “not a goldfish.” My dad didn’t want any mammalian pets in the house, and so I never had one as a child. We adopted Figlio a little over six years ago from a lawyer whose fiancé was allergic to cats. She hid under the …
Almost a decade ago, I first met Bruce Campbell at his book signing for “If Chins Could Kill” at a bookstore in Arlington, VA that no longer exists. Of course, “meeting” a celebrity at any sort of signing can hardly be said to be a meeting at all. Maybe you get a minute or two …
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Update to Final Cut Studio applications today on 15 September, including these lovelies (among others): FCP: Closed captioning data is now preserved when outputting to AJA Io HD with Print to Tape/Video. FCP: XML export now retains the carriage return when working with text and third-party applications. FCP: Several memory fragmentation issues have been resolved. …
This weekend, I dumped a bunch of TV episodes I ripped from DVDs into iTunes, and faced a daunting task to clean up all of the titles and other metadata. Thankfully, iTunes has a special […] At this point, I’m not sure what happened, but it seems the rest of this paragraph got lost when …
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The Apple Pro Keyboard is mushy and unresponsive, but worst of all, it traps and showcases dirt inside its clear plastic shell as if it were a disgusting work of art. If you want to get back to your pristine-looking APK, it takes a fair amount of effort to take apart and clean. This guide …
Note: This article has been updated for newer versions of Mac OS X (10.5 or later) that don’t use Netinfo Manager. Read the new article. When I’m prepping an old Mac to resell or give away, I like to install a clean system and apply all of the available updates first. Of course, I need …
