A friend just found this while troubleshooting a system at work that was using Microsoft Outook client in IMAP mode. The message is "Your IMAP server has closed the connection. This may occur if you … [Read more...]
My Son Built His First Computer
July 3, 2008 By
At age 4 our son built his first computer. It is a simple laptop system using OS "O" for Owen. He sits next to me opens it up, and starts typing along while I work on my laptop. Here are some … [Read more...]
Computers for a Growing Family
June 21, 2008 By
Apple Mini is the perfect home computer if you have young kids. It will work with a USB keyboard and USB mouse. If you already have a old monitor it will work with that too. I suggest the Mini option … [Read more...]
Time Machine Actually Works
May 27, 2008 By
It took 11 minutes to copy over my applications, settings and accounts. I ran into problems with Macromedia 8 like it plain out told me to reinstall so I did. Once it was reinstalled all my website … [Read more...]
Time Machine Update
May 26, 2008 By
It took Time Machine 49 minutes to back up 26 GB of data on my new 2.4Ghz 15-inch MacBook Pro in preparation for returning it to the store for a replacement. The device I chose to use with the Time … [Read more...]
Display Issues with New 2.4GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro
May 26, 2008 By
I went ahead and purchased a MacBook Pro from Best Buy last week. After a couple days I saw ten vertical dark areas rising from the bottom of the display. On restart they go away. They also go away if … [Read more...]
Adobe Creative Suite CS3
April 17, 2008 By
You have 6 choices for Adobe Create Suite 3, but in reality, choices 1 & 2 are the best offerings from the company. Choice 5 is also great for video production groups. Choice 6 is the insane "Go … [Read more...]
Laptop Upgrade Time
April 4, 2008 By
Well our Dell Inspiron 8200 we bought back in 2001 is getting fussy. We love our little laptop and kept plugging along with it through 3 battery changes, two hard drive failures, one power supply … [Read more...]
Who is Among Us
April 2, 2008 By
I wandered into this cool flash type widget at maps.amung.us It is a little widget for static html pages that lets you know where users are browsing from. … [Read more...]
WordPress 2.5.1 not Uploading Images
April 2, 2008 By
Test upload: It worked. Well I use Wordpress to blog on graffitimasters and the latest version of it (version 2.5.1) is a bit dodgy. I found I could upload images OK from my Mac Mini (OS 10.5) … [Read more...]