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Review: The Automatic Link – Smart Driving Assistant

I’ve had my Automatic Link for a few months now and I’m very happy with my purchase. It’s easy to install and just works. Setup First, just plug it in. That was the step I was most worried about as I hadn’t ever interacted with the OBD-II port and I’m not to mechanically gifted. However, […]

Successfully Installed Mac OS 9

After the success of getting Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks installed, I thought I’d get Mac OS 9 installed too. Why you ask? Because we got a preschool CD-ROM at a garage sale and we’d like to check it out and see if Lily would like it. She won’t care how old it is. Turns out, […]

Fixing Kernel Panics on Mavericks

A few weeks ago I posted about my failure to install Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks. It would only stay running for a few minutes before it’d kernel panic and restart. However, I’ve cracked the code and I’m now running Mavericks with no problems! If you’re running into this issues, take those few minutes before the […]

How To Use the Number Pad in Vim on iTerm2

If you use iTerm2, a great alternative to Terminal on Mac, then you’ve probably tried to use the number pad and realized that it doesn’t type numbers. Good news, there is a setting you can change to make the keypad work. In iTerm2 go to preferences -> profiles -> keys -> load preset… and choose […]

Am I the only one that doesn’t like auto updates?

Are auto updates really a good thing? More and more software is opting into auto updating so that the user doesn’t have to worry about it. In some cases I think this is good, in others I’m worried about negative side effects. iOS 7 Auto Updates In iOS 7 Apple introduced auto updates for apps. […]

When you run out of Dropbox space, try Copy. A great alternative.

I have Dropbox and I love it. It’s my goto for storing and syncing files to the cloud. Even though I’ve been able to rack up some additional free space on Dropbox, it’s still pretty lacking in the free space department. There are a lot of other options but Copy is quickly becoming one of […]