http://macdood.com/blog All things Macintosh and Mac Consulting! Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:48:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Getting low number of bars when it should be high, or getting errors trying to join a network it should have no problem with? Here are some things to try when Airport seems to not be connecting well. 1. Go to System Preferences Click on "Network" (under "Internet & Network" in ... http://macdood.com/blog/?p=48 For this article, I was using a Tiger 10.4 version installer disk, because that's what the client was using. But the procedure should be the same for other versions. 1. Start from System Disk (10.4 installer DVD). a. If you can't get to the desktop (Finder) or the keyboard eject ... http://macdood.com/blog/?p=45 I recently had the opportunity to help InformationWeek writer Mitch Wagner – one of the people I “follow” on Twitter (as “MitchWagner”) – with a slow starting Macintosh system. He mentioned a couple of times on Twitter that it was taking his Mac 8 minutes to start up. Such a ... http://macdood.com/blog/?p=32 Here's how I changed the text size and color for th articles on this blog. (I thought the text was too small and too grey). In the Site Admin panel, I found the "Editor" button under "Appearance". Exploring the various things to edit in the list on the right, I ... http://macdood.com/blog/?p=28 This is a job I've found myself doing quite often in recent years: taking an old Mac and cleaning it up, fixing any problems, wiping the drive, getting it ready to sell. In this case an iBook 700MHz. http://macdood.com/blog/?p=19 I did a quick little spreadsheet to see how many photos I've taken since I started keeping them on the computer (this doesn't include scans of slides and stills - I'll try and include that later!). Notice how the gigabytes jump up this year. This is because I've started shooting ... http://macdood.com/blog/?p=10 So here is this newly-installed blog. I wonder what  version of Wordpress it is? Ah - it's 2.7 (my other blog is 2.6 at the moment).  So what's the difference with WP 2.7? The interface looks different. Meeting Notes (need to be edited): People pay him (Enrique Gutierrez) to create WP themes. ... http://macdood.com/blog/?p=1