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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 harden a WordPress install with tested backup plugins like BackupBuddy, strong admin passwords, and basic security steps.
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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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Give every merchant a unique Gmail address to catch who sells it to spammers, then filter the junk with Gmail's built-in tools.
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A farewell to Geek Brief TV and Cali Lewis, the video podcast I watched every Saturday morning for four years, and why it stood out.
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Drop a PDF into Dropbox and an AppleScript Folder Action adds it to iTunes for iBooks sync. Setup steps for iPad and iPhone on iOS 4.
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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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