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What is Zipping Files?

Compress files into a smaller format for transport via email, thumb-drive, or for storage. This is by bundling and reducing the size of the original files. This will not harm the original content, and can help to increase space. Some files can not be compressed, like JPG photos. But others are great for compression, like document files.


Mac Screen Grab Shortcuts

All too often when writing to a blog, pictures can speak more than a 1,000 words and it becomes a bother to easily get a screenshot. These shortcuts will help speed things up: Command-Shift-3 shortcut for taking a screen capture of your entire screen and saves it to the desktop as “Picture x.png”, where x [...]


Firewire

Wow, the differences between the Firewire standards really have me up in arms. I’m a little disappointed with Apple for not making the Firewire 800 (1394b – 9pin) plug available on my MacBook. Because, it’s been out for a while, and the speed is amazing, up to 700 MB/sec. That’s up from the 100, 200, [...]


Mac vs Picasa

I didn’t get to respond to the blog at this other site because the Blog Administrator has blocked new posts. So I’m taking things into my own hands to speak my peace. For the record, it’s not really Mac vs Picasa. It’s that Picasa doesn’t yet work (natively) on the Mac, the keyword being YET.


Tiny Mighty Mac

I want to tell you a story. It’s what some people, even myself, would categorize as miraculous, godsend, or a blessing. Some may term this as coincidence or just lucky. Which ever way you see it is fine with me; but for me, with nothing to lose, will consider the former, a miracle. I’ll explain [...]