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Who would have ever thought we’d run into the 32-bit limitation. The long and short is that with all versions of Windows, 750MB at the top of memory is useless because it is used for I/O and if you have a 1GB video card, that is memory mapped, so that means you can use at [...]

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Just a reminder on how to print to a Canon Pro9000 via an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule. This is actually tricky. You have to download the generic Canon IJ Printer (http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=182&modelid=12892#DownloadDetailAct)

This has pretty tight requirements:

• Mac OS X v10.5.3
• Latest version of Airport firmware

• Pro9000osxcp10120ej7.dmg which is the 10.1.2.0 version driver.

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So if you have a Mac say at your friends home, is there an easy way to diagnose it. I’ve tried this a bunch with Windows machines, but never quite got all the connections right. So maybe Apple works better. On a single network this is great, you can Share Screen with other Mac’s and [...]

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Google actually has a contact system built into Google Mail. These are used just about everywhere, but most importantly you can use Google to synchronize contacts in Mac Address Book, iPhone and maybe even the Blackberry.
You unfortunately need third party tools to then take the contacts and push them to your iPhone (Nuviosync) and Address [...]

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The Mac has this notion of invisible files. Sometimes you want to edit them. There are third party utilities like File Buddy which do this, but you can also natively view them if you squint sideways. Here are the instructions:
In Mac OS X, how do I view invisible files? – Knowledge Base
OS X 10.5.x [...]

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