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Tech Tip V
Wednesday August 27th 2008, 11:53 pm
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Tech Tips are back - now that I’m back out of the Olympic Bubble…

Here’s a simple one that most of you likely know - but for those who don’t - it’s so essential that I have to go over it.

When you get back from an assignment and want to copy files from your laptop over to your desktop machine or server - simply restart your laptop and hold down the “T” key on your keyboard.

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TECH TIP III
Tuesday August 05th 2008, 9:30 am
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Need to resize images for your Blog every day?   Need to send 10,000 images out to a client at a certain size - and then a second batch in a different size and format?   If you’re like me - you hate doing repetitive tasks on a computer - after all that’s why you bought the darn thing thing for in the first place! (Oh - and did I mention you didn’t need to buy anything to get this done…) (more…)



TECH TIPS II
Sunday August 03rd 2008, 8:54 am
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One of the most useful utilities I use is a free utility called iStat Menus.  It does a number of things - but the most important to me is to show me what my network activity is.  If I hook onto a WIFI spot - and I only see data going up (and nothing coming back) I know the connection is dead or blocked.  It also helps when you’re on deadline and don’t know if you connection is dead, or just really slow…

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TECH TIPS I
Saturday August 02nd 2008, 10:07 pm
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I’m about to leave my son and wife for more than 20 days - so I’m not going to spend too much time behind the keyboard before I leave - will be doing plenty of that in Beijing.     So here is a series of very basic - but incredibly useful - keystrokes that I use daily.   Thanks to my friend at Apple (A.G.) for these little nuggets of geek wisdom he shared with me a little over 2 years ago… (more…)