Last night I finally installed Dropbox at the urging of my friends. It really is amazing!

You sign up for free and download an application that installs a folder on each computer. When you want to transfer a file to a different computer, simply put it into the Dropbox folder and it appears in the corresponding folder on the other computer almost instantly.

Other features that I really like are

• A public folder that is accessible to anyone – just give them a link to the file they want and they can download it.
• Private shared folders – this creates a matching folder in another user’s Dropbox folder and anything you put into it will sync to their computer as well. We’ve already used this for transferring files among the people I work with. The possibilities with this one are endless.

This is everything that MobileMe’s file syncing should be, but isn’t. Try it.

Disclaimer: If you sign up to Dropbox using the links here, we’ll both get a little extra free space in my account.

I’ve been getting a lot of hits (over 10% just today) recently from people who want to change the header image in the Wordpress SubtleFlux theme.

It’s really quite simple…

Go to the theme’s images directory
Replace banner.jpg with your new image

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has written an open letter explaining why Apple does not allow Flash to run on the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

I like it because it’s not only well thought out, but he taken all of his random verbal explanations from the last few years and put [...] Continue Reading…

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My wife is an avid believer in the Weight Watchers method of weight loss and control. I don’t blame her – it has worked wonders for her and several of her friends and they all look fantastic!

As the main cook in the house, I like it because it’s a [...] Continue Reading…

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?

I have to admit that I never saw the attraction. I think I looked at the sampler once – just once.

I wanted to let you know about Kiva, a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur who is working toward improving their living situation.

You can go to Kiva’s website and lend to someone across the globe who needs a loan for [...] Continue Reading…

According to this article on AppleInsider, Apple is not stopping with electronic books, and is attempting to attack Amazon’s mp3 download business as well.

Sources say that iTunes representatives have been urging labels to rethink their participation in the Amazon promotion and that they have backed up those warnings by [...] Continue Reading…

For some bizarre reason our friends at Apple have never included an easy method of viewing hidden files and folders in OS X.

Sure, you can do a google search and get the exact code to enter into the Terminal, but there’s a reason I use a Mac and not [...] Continue Reading…

I’ve recently realized that you don’t go out much when you work from home, and you go out even less when it starts snowing. You could say I’ve been getting a little stir-crazy. We had a brief lull between snow storms today so I took the opportunity to go [...] Continue Reading…