How to root the Google Nexus 7 from OS X after the Jelly Bean 4.2.2 update, using the Android SDK, ClockworkMod Recovery, and SuperSU.
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How to set up iCloud on iOS 5 when your iTunes and MobileMe Apple IDs differ. Sign in with MobileMe, keep the shared iTunes ID for purchases.
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My tribute to Steve Jobs, written the morning he died. A life traced through Apple machines, from the 1984 Macintosh 128K onward.
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How to earn Hurricane Electric IPv6 Sage certification by running an IPv6-only Postfix mail server on OS X Snow Leopard, step by step.
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How to start Hurricane Electric's free IPv6 certification, why IPv4 exhaustion matters after IANA's last blocks, and the first badge levels.
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Time Machine was backing up 920MB I didn't need. How the timedog Perl script shows what changed and which files to exclude from backups.
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Why I dumped Quicken Essentials 2010 for iBank 4 after Intuit locked in my data, and the parsing work it took to free my transactions.
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How to fix the Adobe Unit Types.osax errors flooding system.log on OS X Snow Leopard. Adobe's 64-bit update stops the osascript noise.
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Hidden macOS keyboard shortcuts and settings you won't find in System Preferences, from startup keys to Finder and Dock tricks.
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Parallels Desktop offers no network boot option. How to PXE boot a Parallels VM on the Mac to load a corporate Windows image anyway.
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My review of Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac from a Quicken 2007 user's view. It covers the basics but delivers the bare minimum.
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After my Quicken Essentials 2010 critique, Intuit's PR reached out and offered a call with Aaron Patzer. Here is the full exchange.
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