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Adding the Date to the Menubar in Mac OS X 10.4

June 28th, 2009 by chevvy · No Comments

Would you like to see the date on your menubar along with the time?
Well this is how to do it…
Go to…System PreferencesDate & TimeOpen International (towards the bottom)Choose Formats (middle option)Go to Customise DatesChoose how you want the date to look - like July 29 or Jul 29Select all (CMD+A) and then copy (CMD+C), hit [...]

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Mozy - Free Online Backup Service

June 27th, 2009 by chevvy · No Comments

Here is a great website offering a free 2GB online service totally freeBackup 2GB of files for free and always have a copy away from your laptop and always receoverable!https://mozy.com/home
Alternatively pay $4.95 per month for an unlimited backup service!
Its very quick and easy to setup and works on Mac and Windows.

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The Best EQ Setting on the iPod for Country Music

May 30th, 2009 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

Using the default headphones that came with my iPod Touch 2G I did not really notice mich of a difference between the Music EQ settings. My left headphone stopped working recently though so I picked up a much better pair of headphones, and now I notice a difference.
Most of my music on my iPod is [...]

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How to reset a Sony Ericsson

March 11th, 2009 by dansnell · 1 Comment

My Sony Ericsson K660i crashed on me the other day. For some reason it was freezing on start up. Due to this it also meant I was unable to get through the menu to the Master Reset. Unfortunately there is also no key combination or hidden button that might perform this task. This seemed like [...]

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Post Your Facebook Status to Twitter

February 17th, 2009 by Bill Hutchison · 5 Comments

There are some great tools out there that let you post your twitter updates to Facebook. But, some people want to go the other way and post their Facebook Status to Twitter.
Here is one way that you can do that quite easily:

Get the address for your Facebook Status RSS feed. To do that you can [...]

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Incorrect Time on Diary Entries on iTouch

February 11th, 2009 by chevvy · No Comments

All my calendar entries on my iTouch were coming up about 7 hours incorrectly, the events themselves were correct just wrong time. After checking my computer and Touch had the correct settings I found one other place to change…
I went to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Time Zone Support (Near the bottom) -> and [...]

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