Some guy I work with brought in his home computer for repair that was absolutely taken over by spyware. Normally I don’t mind taking a look at friend and co-worker’s home computer for free, because usually it takes very little effort to clean up things, but this one I wish I wouldn’t have even [...]

After recovering my Macbook Pro using the OS X Archive and Install. I had to manually restore all my documents and settings by dragging and dropping everything from the Macintosh HD/Previous Systems/Previous System 1/Users/mike to my new user’s directory.
Once I got everything in place I was having trouble working with my files on my admin [...]

I’ve never really been into gaming, years ago I was highly addicted a computer game called Subspace A.K.A Continuum, which was a very simple game similar to the classic game Asteroids. You would battle your 2D spaceship online against people from all around the world, there were teams/squads and even a competitive league. Other than [...]

Last week my Macbook Pro crashed. It would hang on the startup screen with the Apple logo and the spinning gear for about 5-10 minutes then restart it self, and continue to loop. The culprit may have been a recent firmware update from Apple, but I have a hunch it had something to do with [...]

This afternoon I decided to restore my iPod Mini back to default factory settings. During the process iTunes suggested that I “Upgrade my iPod to the latest software” so I went ahead and answered yes to the upgrade. After a couple seconds all I seen was a little “plug iPod into the wall charger” icon [...]

A good friend of mine from Buffalo moved out to Vegas a couple years ago. I was originally suppose to move with him but it didn’t work out for several reasons. Ever since I’ve wanted to go visit him, just been busy with work and other things.
On top of my buddy having a house there, [...]

There were a few laptops in the office that shared a similar problem, the mouse cursor would go beyond the right of the screen. So instead of the cursor/pointer stopping at all 4 edges of the screen, when you moved it towards the right side of the screen it would continue on past the edge [...]

One of the only things I missed about working on Windows XP was the convenience of accessing other machine’s folders and files, that were on the network, from my desktop via Windows Explorer. I knew this was more than likely possible on OS X, I just didn’t know how to do so. Until recently I [...]

I’ve been working on re-designing the company website since I started working for Spinneybeck in 2006. At first things were moving along smoothly, although I wasn’t totally for it, the boss wanted the new site done completely in Flash. So we worked on an entire flash design for months knowing that eventually we will need [...]

Wordpress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems(CMS) on the web. It’s a great application supported by a great community. I use Wordpress for many of my own websites, I also recommend it to others looking to start a website that need to manage their content with little programming knowledge. I always thought [...]