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First Snow in 2005
It was the first snow of 2005 and we took the kids outside to play.
Easy Backup with SuperDuper
December 24, 2006
A couple of months ago, my 300GB external hard drive decided to bite the dust without a proper 30-day warning. I considered myself lucky since I have copied most of my family iMovie videos and photos to DVD discs prior to the incident. However, I still lost a good deal of files that I wish […]
Neat Desktop: Hidding the Dock
December 22, 2006
Of my “Neat Desktop” series, this trick does not require any additional software. By pressing Cmd+Option+D, I hide the dock from view. Pressing the same key combination will bring it back. However, I prefer to move the mouse cursor to where the dock used to be and the dock will appear until I move the […]
Neat Desktop: MenuShade
December 22, 2006
Once again, I would like to thank Merlin Mann for his pointer to this gem. MenuShade hides the menu to remove one more distracting piece of information from the user’s desktop. The user can choose various degree of shading, from completely invisible to visible. For my MacBook, I choose to turn it completely dark so […]
Neat Desktop: Desktopple
December 22, 2006
Continue with my neat desktop theme, I also found another cool application: Desktopple. This little gem hides the icons on the desktop to give the user a cluster-free desktop. As a matter of personal preference, I choose a near-black background for my desktop when hiding the icons. Others might opt for a different color, or […]
Neat Desktop: Spirited Away
December 22, 2006
I just discovered this cool little application today and love it so far. Credit of the discovery should go to Merlin Mann who showed it on the MacBreak video podcast. Here is my one-line description: Spirited Away hides inactive applications after a predetermined time. Often, when I am working on an application, or even web-surfing, […]
Leavenworth Trip Video
December 22, 2006
Here is a video of our day trip to Leavenworth. We were lucky to see both the autumn’s bright red and gold foliage and the winter’s snow.
Homemade Light Tent
December 22, 2006
First, I would like to thank you Bill Huber for his exellent instruction on how to build a light tent. It took me less than half an hour to build one. If I can do it, I am sure everybody else can. While building the tent, I made three deviations from his instructions: I did […]
2006-11-01 Lynn and Erica at the pool
December 21, 2006
This video is one of my attempts to create wide (16×9) video. The video quality is a little low because I want to keep the file size small for web streaming.
December 24, 2006
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