by ray | Mar 23, 2015 | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
External drives allow you to quickly moves large files between computers. If you want yours to seamlessly work with both Macs and PCs, your external drive needs to use a filesystem that is supported by both platforms. The problem is that by default Windows uses NFTS,...
by ray | Mar 23, 2015 | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Using an external drive between Mac and Windows computers can be a hassle, since you constantly have to reformat it to fit which computer you’re using it on. Instead of reformatting it all the time, just use the much more platform-independent exFAT and never...
by ray | Mar 23, 2015 | Linux / Ubuntu
To butcher a well-worn phrase, ‘With great power comes great frustration’ – at least that’s the case when wrestling with Conky, the versatile system monitoring tool for Linux. On the one hand it’s super featured and highly versatile, on the other it’s a pain in the...
by ray | Mar 23, 2015 | Linux / Ubuntu
If you have upgraded your Ubuntu machine to Ubuntu Saucy 13.10, one of the things that you might find missing is the date/time indicator in the menu bar. And if you visit the “System Settings -> Time and Date -> Clock” section, you might find that the option to...
by ray | Mar 23, 2015 | Microsoft Windows
On April 8, Windows XP’s life is coming to an end. On that day, Microsoft will stop issuing security updates to the 12-year-old operating system, and it will end nearly all technical support as well. You wouldn’t think that killing off an operating system...
