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Comment on Online Copyright Theft & Combatting It More Effectively by Blog Post Theft – Thoughts on Online Plagiarism and Breach of Copyright

Blog Post Theft – Thoughts on Online Plagiarism and Breach of Copyright — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:20:33 +0000

[...] and paraded as someone else’s I have been much less sanguine. Who can forget the episode of Greg Passuntino who ripped a blog post, and then had his pretty picture and name by the text whilst his web site [...]

Comment on How To Create Multi-Segment Compressed Archives in Mac OSX by Alexey

Alexey — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:22:37 +0000

They made a big mistake making this process different in Deluxe 2010. It’s awful! I searched for the option about 30 min!

So, in StuffIt Deluxe 2010: Open DropStuff, then in menu bar click Window – Profiles. Then you will see the box with Segment Size choice…

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:36:31 +0000

Robbie – Yes that’s a good sign, either you screen, or more likely your graphics card is playing up. I would do a full backup for the drive and then take it to a mac repair place. Hopefully you are near an apple store. You don’t need to remove the drive, the Firewire Disk Mode allows you to use the laptop as an external hard drive and therefore when connected to another mac, you can back it up to your external drive, using the working mac as a conduit.

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:22:32 +0000

Vincent, when I hold the T key down, a large firewire icon starts to move across the screen, after this, what do I use to connect to another Mac?
p.s. The pixels still cover the screen, but I am still able to see the firewire icon “dance” around the screen. I’m hoping this is a good sign?
Also, would it be safe to remove my hard drive, put it in a friend’s mac, and then use an external hard drive to back up my data?
Thanks for the help!

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:59 +0000

It sounds like it could be a graphics card issue. I would suggest booting with the T key held down, which puts the laptop into firewire disk mode, and then connecting it to another mac so you can back up the data before you do anything. Best, Vincent =

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Robbie

Robbie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:28:22 +0000

I have a Macbook Pro, not sure of the generation, but it was purchased in 2006.
I was going about my business just fine yesterday, when all the sudden the screen got all pixelated (for lack of better terms). I turned off the laptop manually. Now when I turn it on, the Apple image appears, but shortly after the pixels come back. The screen then turns blue (still rectangular pixels persist) and that’s that. Does this sound like something that can be fixed with the disc method you described? I won’t be able to check for a few days because I don’t have the start-up disc with me at the moment.
Does my problem seem to be hard drive related, monitor related, etc?
I will feel much better if I can at least copy all my data but if my hard drive is lost, it’ll be a very sad day :(

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Frank

Frank — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:13:41 +0000

Vincent, booting into Safe Mode has been part of OS X since version 10.2
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
It is very handy for troubleshooting. You boot into safe mode by holding down the shift key at start up. Old school mac users will recognize this as the same startup command that was used to boot w/ extensions off in OS 9 and earlier.

Comment on Free Themes for Project Seven’s Pop Menu Magic by Rhonda Mayze

Rhonda Mayze — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:02:39 +0000

Dreamweaver has been for a while my personal goto software for a long time. I truly do not know what I would do without having it. There were times when I initially begun using the program, and I thought it was way too difficult. Now I fly around it, and it has turn out to be a great asset in my personal tool box. At any rate thanks for the posting.

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:48:26 +0000

Jeremiah – Booting into Safe Mode sounds like you are on Windows. I therefore have no clue. Sorry!

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:13:15 +0000

Hello
about a week ago I was recieving ” error start up disc is full”. I believed I had fixed this problem by rebooting in safe mode I believe. Wala! Computer ( osx laptop) fixed! For only a few days before my new problem arised….. My laptop is no longer picking up my wifi, but the other computers here are. Did I mess something up? I mean it worked fine for the week after rebooting. Any thoughts, comments….. Or dare I hope for resolutions.

Comment on How-to Secure Erase Files from Your Hard Drive in OSX by Spurs

Spurs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:09:51 +0000

I am that caveman you hear about. Please advise on what happens to the library copies etc when you secue delete, or indeed on these machines files and footprints seem to appear in many parts of the computer system.

I have a mac os x 10.6.2

Thanks

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:59:36 +0000

Cory – You will want to apply some CSS to the

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etc.

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:58:46 +0000

Joe – Check out Rage Software’s iWeb SEO Tools

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by joe mangrum

joe mangrum — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:49:44 +0000

my wife has a dog walking business in brooklyn and New York City called http://www.furrypoppins.com how can I add these key words – in iweb?? dog walking, pet sitting, cat sitting, puppy training, dog sitting etc….

please advise

Comment on Flip Clock & Tetris Style Lego Screensaver for OS X by Rob

Rob — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:10:59 +0000

It’s a shame the Briblo screensaver doesn’t work on Snow Leopard

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Cory

Cory — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:44:39 +0000

Hi Vincent,

The Rage software and video have been great but the main reason that I got it was to learn how to do the h1 tags but it doesn’t work. When you put it in the text is is just this large black type. I just edited the html but I am not really sure if I did it correctly, if you could take a look at http://www.westernsips.com and give me any tips they would be appreciated.

Thanks

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:55:42 +0000

I notice you seem to have managed to get the head tags in etc and things look good. In terms of the links you will need to directly edit the CSS file in index_files and change the #999999 hex code to another color. For further help you might like to read a couple of articles I recently wrote "Quick SEO Success, Is It Possible?" and "Search Engines Love Qype". Hope this helps, Vincent =

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:45:56 +0000

You won’t be able to install Windows on a G4.

Comment on How-To Erase Deleted Files and Wipe Free Space in OSX by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:43:45 +0000

If you delete it and it doesn’t make the space available, then I would be concerned soemthing was wrong with your drive. You don’t need to do Erase, nor even wipe free space. I woudl run and repair and see what comes back. Hope this helps.

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Michael

Michael — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:37:09 +0000

Vincent,

I hope this finds you well. I am having difficulty dealing with the redirect. I have the RAGE SEO tool and have gone through all the steps. I still have to go in and add Header tags. I tried to do that and the font came back screwy. Tips? Last but not least is that I desperately need to change the color of my links! They just blend in! It’s the #1 complaint so far. Help please. Thanks!

Michael