Rocket Silence

Four days ago, Microsoft unveiled the pre-beta of Windows 7 at PDC and offered up quite a few user interface changes meant to streamline the aging operating system. What they came up with was a taskbar that mimics the styling of the KDE on Linux and further extends the broken window preview concept introduced in [...]

There has been a huge amount of hype and misinformation in the solid-state drive debate as of late and whether it’s a technology that’s ready for primetime; I recently purchased one with my newest computer and want to offer some real-world tests. The drive in question is a Samsung 64GB SATA SSD (1.8″, Model No. [...]

I’ve been a customer of Sprint’s Mobile Broadband service for quite a while and have wanted to whip up a how-to on getting it to work well on OS X for a while but never got around to it. However, since I’ve gotten intrigued with the idea of GPS, I thought it was time to [...]

Keyboard shortcuts make everything easier, although some newer users don’t know how to start or see it as too arduous a task and just stuck to the trusty ‘ol Commnad+C and Command+V. This is a short tutorial to help you get started with some shortcuts that will make using OS X faster and more efficient. [...]

I’m very into the whole idea of digitizing every paper document I receive in the hopes of achieving some sort of paperless nirvana. As such, I scan nearly everything into my computer using Adobe Acrobat Professional onto my computer and then either throw it on the server for archiving or store it on my laptop [...]