Monthly Archives: September 2010

Who Is Watching You? Nine Industries That Know Your Every Move (via Margot’s News & Views)

Some companies that you wouldn’t suspect of it on here. This is a great story most people would benefit from reading. By DOUGLAS MCINTYRE Posted 8:00 AM 09/24/10 Technology, Google , Bank of America, Wal-Mart Stores, Citigroup, Facebook, Insurance, Credit … Continue reading

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HyperDock puts some Win7 in your OS X Dock

HyperDock puts some Win7 in your OS X Dock.  I could see this being useful for people who multitask and have more than 5 Mac Applications going at a time.

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Roundup of the Best Celebrity Quotes about Money – Financial News for the Best Bank Rates Go Banking Rates

Roundup of the Best Celebrity Quotes about Money – Financial News for the Best Bank Rates Go Banking Rates.  Interesting quotes.

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Rampant View turns your 5th gen iPod nano into a head cam — Engadget

Rampant View turns your 5th gen iPod nano into a head cam — Engadget.  This doesn’t seem very comfortable to me.

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Two ways of how To Extract Audio from FLV Files MacLife

How To Extract Audio from FLV Files MacLife.  One mentioned in the article and another mentioned in the comment below.  You have to have Firefox/Safari to use the first method.

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Slow WiFi – Something Odd Going Here?

Apple – Support – Discussions – Slow WiFi – Something Odd Going Here? ….  Lots of people have had issues with NetGear  equipment and iPad/iPhone devices, so getting a different router seems to work to solve slowness for WiFi.

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Volume Control – hardware or software problem on iPad

Apple – Support – Discussions – Volume Control – hardware or software ….  After going to the store turns out that it was a hardware issue.  Probably best first strategy for this issue.

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“Trying to open scanner session…”

baltwo suggests: (and it works of course) Move the com.apple.Image_Capture.plist and com.apple.ImageCaptureApp.plist files out of your /Library/Preferences/ folder onto the Desktop, restart, and launch Image Capture. via Apple – Support – Discussions – How to reset, or to uninstall and … Continue reading

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