why adobe updater?

adobe updater, in my experience, has turned out to be one of the most un-user friendly and annoying “updater” utilities i think i’ve come across in some years. i can’t surf the web while the updater is running? are you serious? it takes over an hour to install the updates? are [...]

why switch to mac?

ha. =)

ways to quit and restart finder

haven’t researched this deeply or tried the options yet, but ran across this thread on lifehacker where a couple methods are mentioned.
totally silly, though, the way the people in the comment thread were getting so argumentative with each other. i mean, seriously, people.

mac apps to download

the hard drive on the macbook pro i use for work crashed twice this month, and i’ve needed to rebuild it twice this month. no time machine available at work, as the backup option the i.t. department finally bequeathed to me is 260gbs of space on one of the app servers, and i’m assuming [...]

how to export mail from outlook on a pc to thunderbird on a mac

am not going to give detailed or necessarily lucid instructions/steps, am writing this more for myself, just as a reminder, as i’ve had to do this two times now in the past month.
1) you’ve got outlook installed, been using it for mail, on your pc
2) install thunderbird on the pc
3) once thunderbird is [...]