Learn How easy it is to Format (set-up) your external harddrive to start backuping your mac: Open Disk Utility.( Inside Applictaions folder- is Utilitis folder- open to find Disk Utility) The disk utility window looks like this: Select your backup drive from the list on left( mine is the orange one)and click the “Partition” tab.
Read Moreto this here website,(taintme)-The lifehacker.com site been the absolute fav/bestEver/ go-to site -barnone.
A source of much inspiration , frequent reblogging and general nerd/hack awesomeness …I’ve found projects that spoke to the hybrid nerd in me ..projects i would actually carry out- start to finish…The site filled a gap that is/was extremely specific to my personality type….( see here for a description…of the male vs of my type) This site was my golden ticket -Gina Trapina my willawonka -So , around a year and a half ago, when she…, Founder/Editor Gina ,handed over the rains, i was a little bummed..but still high on the few years of overindulgent fixes for my machack dependancy.. . i wasn’t that REALLY worried.. i mean it was the site …and i was intrigued- as the site had already become more a community feedback / multi-author depot- since it’s beginnings–mixing hardcore mac tweaks with google fixes and hand-crafted firefox addons.
I trusted the editor shift , as the new lifehacker flow that had been setup was starting to help me understand a lil about Ubuntu and even enjoying a little peecee knowledge, i was inadvertantly picking up -
But ..OFCOURSE as with all good things…..lifehacker was not to be as it had once been…slowly…..well not to me…in my hyper vs.-the shift was immeadiate..but regardless of my minds’ over-dramtization, a shift of heavy peecee leanings variety has taken place-
i noticed whenever i opened my feedreader..anticipating a daily project/fix/fact….i increasingly found myself feeling annoyed-as i was seemingly more-than-not greeted with “No New Posts” or posts tagged “Windows Only”
- at first i was second guessing myself- thinking/rationalizing my annoyance at my own sillines…Due to Gina’s over-indulgent mac favoritism…and i just needed to get used to the new editor’s balance of pc/mac posts…
but it has been well over a year since Gina handed it over- and although im sure there are many new lh fans and many old fans pleased-as-punch about the flavour shift… sadly- i am not one- and today, with a sad finger.. i finally hit my delete subscription button-because not only do i rarley get any subscribed feed updates(mac) – but this is the the last one i got , prior to hitting the FAIL button:
when apple refers to keyboard shortcuts and shows you them using symbols like this: 
or 
do you feel lost?
not anymore:
unlock the kingdom of Key Strokes …see the handy little chart below – a “key” to modifier key symbols you can see in Mac OS X menus:
Apparently here its free to call long distance ..with no catch.If you use this or have any further insight lemme now: i got relatives in HongKong And Canada, that can talk and talk and talk…..
I am , once agin, soo disillusioned by mac and their piece-of-crap-take-a-back-seat-to-ipods mail app.
i havent received mail in thel ast few hours.. so i went to the web login .. onlky to find
this and the best part.. is this: is this: *note that they say ‘all systems operational’…so freakin microsuc of you mac . grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.what to do?
i feel like i can’t really change my address..but i guess i m going to have to – via slowly weening off .
Any suggestions of alternates?
( i dont mean gmail.. )
yesterday, unbeknownst to me..was aholiday?so due to that fact…and cause i was getting over being sick-i kinda had a free day. it felt like a professional day from school…All kickass open obligation free-timmmmeee..yes.
I decided id try out some stuff i had left sitting in wait for a long while…so being the new year and this being Allison vs.2.0(due to my attempt to heed advice from here…i methodically made a little list of things i wanted to try/do ……..
Things did not go quite as planned.
I started with photobooth, because m and i have been trying to play around with our new cameras and printers..talking about getting pictures of eachother .and i hadnt fufilled my end as of yet… So i thought id ‘quickly’ check it out ~ i hooked my canon dvcamera
up to my g5 , and began …..but, somehow, i never got any further…
Basically..i managed to delve deep…. ~into my own narcissism.
I mean…are you kidding with this shit??…i spent HOURS getting just the right shot. Examining every crease and freckle..
creating makeshift tripods
( all being of the completely unstable variety, due to frantic style fanatiscm over getting the right shot….’we’re losing our light hurry’ ….who the hell thinks in phrases like that?? )
.. studying..practicing and posing for a variety of ~’oh! u caught me by surprise(???)’ ~shots…damn.
seriously disturbing behaviour.
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my G5 wont start. i may kill . i ran software update slast night . restarted…grey screen… apple logo……spinning …then the fan starts wheezing…revving higher and higher…( ive NEVER HAD A PROBLENM W/ THE FAN SOUND ETC)
so i did all fixes i could think of:
reset the pram ..
started up from startupdisk w/c
same as above w/ external cd drive
t drive on laptop( it came up no prob..?)
damn it all . nuthing the san ebehaviour each time.,
im bummed .
and dangerously frustrated
Then the power in the house blew. all of it.
and did i menton my heat is off..has been for months…gas company visits
were useless.
landlord wont respond.
well one problem just solved;electrician via yellow pages told me today is dooms day
and that the world is ending.
oh, and restored power.
interessant, no?