Here’s another quick tip for those people finding pages appearing in their Facebook feeds with updates whilst having no recollection of liking them in the first place. Periodically pruning your “likes” can be beneficial in reducing the noise in your news stream whilst giving you an opportunity to review what you like as time progresses. …
September 2011 archive
Sep 19 2011
Get Portal Free – Stat!
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you haven’t yet gotten into the fun physics game of Portal then you should go here now to get a copy for free through Steam. This offer lasts until tomorrow so don’t be caught napping!
Sep 18 2011
Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in VirtualBox
Yesterday, I took you through how to prepare VirtualBox for your installation of the Windows 8 Developer Preview so today will look at the actual installation process. To kick things off, you need to configure the Windows installation image as a bootable disc in the VM. In order to do so, you need to click on “Settings” …
Sep 17 2011
Setup VirtualBox for Windows 8
As promised, I’m going to take you through how to configure a VM in VirtualBox to get the developer preview of Windows 8 up and running. The first thing you need to do after opening Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager is click on the “New” button which kicks of the “New Virtual Machine Wizard”. The first …
Sep 15 2011
Firefox Aurora Channel May Require Several Updates
Another quick tip for tonight. If you are close to the bleeding edge when it comes to the Firefox browser without being on the nightly releases you’ll be on the Aurora channel. This update channel only releases the most recent build that works (somewhat) compared to some nightly builds that might not work at all. …
Sep 13 2011
Unthaw Frozen Mac OS X Lion With an Automatic Reboot
Here’s another quick Mac OS X Lion tip. Sometimes, you can be left staring at the spinning beach ball on your screen completely uncertain as to whether or not you will ever get control of your Mac (often called the “spinning beach ball of death”). Sometimes it will come good but other times it won’t …
Sep 12 2011
“About This Mac” Just Got Friendlier
Here’s another tidbit of information about Mac OS X Lion. If you are unaware, the “About This Mac” screen has been refreshed to be a bit more user friendly compared to versions of Mac OS X prior to Lion First up is the “Overview” screen which looks a bit cleaner and even includes a picture …
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