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.
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…)
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…
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…)
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