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Being a Corporate Mac User

I’m not “a Mac” in the commercial persona paradigm, I’m more of a VMware cluster. Starting in 2006, my primary home computer has been a Mac of one sort or another. It’s become very familiar, even when I was a

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Outlook and iOS 6 update

Via BGR, it looks like iOS 6.0.1 is being tested now and would address the Outlook / iOS 6 bug that caused meetings to be deleted. In addition, the new software will improve Wi-Fi support, fix cellular data not working

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Newseum: Today’s Front Pages

The other day, I caught a post on Signal Vs. Noise about using Automator in OS X to grab your favorite newspaper’s front pages from Newseum as PDFs and join them. This sounded like a great idea, so I set

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Home Backup Project – Part 5: Evaluating Incremental Backup Options

The most crucial piece of this project is keeping the primary family computer, a 20″ iMac, backed up. This project might as well never have happened if this one task were incomplete. I evaluated several options for keeping the machine

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Home Backup Project – Part 3: Subversion Clients

As part of the ongoing home backup project, I’ve been testing various SVN clients to make sure I have a good working application for both home and work environments. At work I run WinXP Pro and therefore use TortoiseSVN because,

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