Quicken for Mac Hack

June 6, 2006

In a previous article we looked at a way to hack a QFX file (Quicken’s version of OFX) to trick Qucken for Mac into letting you import at file from a bank that doesn’t pay extra money to Quicken for Mac support. Here we are going to examine a few ways to automate that process. [...]

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Remote Signaling System for Your Home

April 6, 2006

Picture this: you are working in your home office,  maybe in the basement or on 2nd floor, your wife (or husband) is cooking dinner, and the kids are screaming, but you are oblivious to it.  Maybe you have some music on, or are just too far removed from the “action”.  Your wife, needing some assistance, [...]

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Managing Podcasts in iTunes

March 30, 2006

I subscribe to quite a few podcasts. Since I have virtually no commute time, I only get caught up listening to everything on my iPod when I go on a long trip every few months. I’ve found that the default setup for listening to podcasts doesn’t work very well for this type of listening. Out [...]

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Television: The New Movies

March 27, 2006

Technology is once again changing the face of personal entertainment.  Not long ago, the only place one could go to experience epic stories brought to life on a big screen with heart pounding acoustics was the local movie theater.  Today, with the growing commonality of big screen TVs utilizing new technologies such as plasma and [...]

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Click to Call with Vonage

March 20, 2006

Vonage offers an interface that allows you to setup calls using a simple web urls that make calls to https://secure.click2callu.com. There is software that makes use of this interface like the add in for Outlook that lets you click on a number and dial it. In this article we are going to look at how [...]

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How to Create a Virtual CD Drive (Windows XP)

March 16, 2006

Long ago, software companies enforced copy protection by requiring that the original product CD be inserted with each usage.  When copying CDs in their entirety became commonplace, the software giants turned to other methods, mostly centered around internet-based authentication.  However, when I installed several games for my son on our new computer, I found that [...]

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Why I won’t buy an Intel Mac (yet)

March 12, 2006

A farmer and his wife visited the fair each year. One of the attractions was a pilot who would give passengers a short ride in his bi-plane for five dollars. The farmer wanted to ride the plane, but every year his wife would say, “five dollars is five dollars”. After 7 years, the pilot offered [...]

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Sony Ericson T610 and Mac Bluetooth

March 11, 2006

In the past I’ve been stuck using Nextel for mobile internet access. Nextel service seems to work ok, but it is very slow, has limited coverage, costs $79 per month, doesn’t support Bluetooth, requires third-party software to work with OS X. So when I had an opportunity to switch to a different carrier I went [...]

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Blackberry 7100t with OS X

March 9, 2006

The other day I was talking with my mechanic about cell phones and asking him how he liked his Treo. In the conversation it came up that he had a Blackberry 7100 sitting in the drawer and would be willing to sell it, so I decided to buy it and try it out. I was [...]

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Finding and Freeing wasted space in OS X

February 28, 2006

It doesn’t seem to matter how big of a hard drive you have, it will eventually fill up. Many times just seeing which directory is using the most space can help you find space that can be freed. For example, the other day I was running low on drive space, but looking at the size [...]

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