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Search Text in Firefox by Typing
By now most of us are used to pressing Ctrl F (Cmd F on Mac) to bring up the find bar to search for text within a web page we’re on. It just works and wasn’t even something I knew … Continue reading
[CP] Coffee Pot Engineering
Cross post from my other blog, Big Dan’s Corner > How hard is it to Engineer A Coffee Pot? : I bought a new coffee pot and the reservoir is to narrow to fill without getting water all over the … Continue reading
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Moving your Tunes Library From PC To Mac
Recently I bought an iPod Touch and originally I set it up to sync with my Mac. In the interim I decided to move everything over to my PC as my Mac was supposed to be moved into another room. … Continue reading
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Almost Geek now iPhone / iPod Touch Friendly
Since getting an iPod Touch I’ve been looking to make my websites more accessible to mobile devices now that I actually have one to test on. I found this awesome WordPress plugin called WP-Touch which makes it brilliantly simple to … Continue reading
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Straight Talk Samsung R451C
The Samsung R451c from Straight Talk is a decent enough phone. I bought this phone last November and have been using it since. I’m a heavy texter and less of a voice user but the voice quality anytime I’ve used … Continue reading
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Copy Filezilla Settings From One Computer To Another
Filezilla is my FTP client of choice. It is a free and open source FTP client that works on Windows, Linux and Mac it can be downloaded from here. Filezilla has many features, one of the nicest features is called … Continue reading
How To Show Hidden Files in OS X
In following the tutorials here at Almost Geek, you will often need to look at your systems hidden files for copy or move things around. OS X makes showing hidden files a chore, in fact I had to search for … Continue reading
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Where is the Terminal On my Mac?
As you follow along with our tutorials here you will sometimes need to use Mac OS X’s terminal which is the command line interface for your Mac it’s just like command prompt on Windows. You can find your terminal by … Continue reading
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How to Show Hidden Files In Ubuntu
The default install of Ubuntu includes the Gnome desktop environment and the Nautilus file manager, this is the Linux equivalent to Windows Explorer or Mac OS X’s Finder. In Ubuntu and Linux in general most programs hold their settings and … Continue reading
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First Installs for Ubuntu
With the release of Ubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic Koala last week it was time for me to do a fresh install of Ubuntu on my main machine which dual boots Vista and Ubuntu. For the most part I upgrade my … Continue reading