by Dave | Oct 30, 2008 | Tinker Blog
If you’re setting up Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro like I am, do yourself a favor and read the excellent and thorough documentation at the Ubuntu site. The benefit to installing on such a specific, set of components common to many, many users is that you aren’t...
by Dave | Oct 29, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I have to admit that I cheated here. I already had my system using Boot Camp with a Windows Vista installation (which runs great on my MacBook Pro by the way) and I had two great pieces of software from Coriolis Systems- iDefrag and iPartition. By defragmenting my Mac...
by Dave | Dec 5, 2005 | Tinker Blog
Now I am an Apple fan, but that said, I was lured by Firefox 1.5 to break away from my Apple-made browser, Safari 2.0. A few days ago, I imported all my bookmarks into Firefox and switched my default browser to Firefox. I think it’s interesting that you set the...
by Dave | Nov 21, 2005 | Improving Apps
Just watched a video about the UI redesign in MS Office. Although I don’t use Office and haven’t for years, I thought some of their ideas were interesting, regardless of how well they pull them off. The underlying idea is that the user understands what the...
by Dave | Oct 27, 2005 | Tinker Blog
I bought Xyle Scope a few days back and it just saved my sanity a few minutes ago. I was trying to not float a label that floats left by default. #content_sub label { clear:none; float:left; display:block; } label.stick { float:none; } Presumably, the label.stick...
