This seems unfair to old men who work in cafeterias. I've experienced many a frustrated young woman while trying to show them something very basic on a computer. They were not old, nor men nor employed at the cafeteria. But they were computer duds even after using them for umpteen years. There's just something about…

Free haircuts eh? Is that what they're calling them these days....

I just use one of this key rings that detaches into two separate key rings. Put the 2 house keys on one ring and the rest on the other. It's great for taking a run or whatever. Just bring your 2 keys and leave everything else.

Ok. How about a bit more info on the pros and cons of doing a clean install and how to go about that? Back up and run the installer, which is basically what this piece says, isn't really news worthy.

Well by the look of all the bugs Adobe has reported with everything from Flash to Photoshop and in between, it's probably wise to hold off if you depend on such software for your livelihood. But it's a free world.

Macrumours has a headline piece on how Adobe is claiming that Flash hardware acceleration doesn't run in Lion, not to mention 50 other incompatibilities. This is why it's always wise if you need your machine for work to wait out the first 6 months until everything is sorted out. Snow Leopard is a great os. I'm in no…

I'll wait til everyone catches up. I'm happy with Snow Leopard.

Good question

Here's some important info you might want to read before installing. It comes from Macworld. "The good news is that, once you’ve got a Lion installer, you can copy it freely to all the Macs in your house (so long as they’re running the latest version of Snow Leopard) and upgrade them to Lion. Not only is that…

I was checking this out yesterday and it's pretty handy, although many apps had no info. For instance, flip4mac for playing wmv files, had a question mark, but visiting the site showed Lion compatibility right in the front page. I guess now that Lion is in official release the database should be improved. Apparently…

The vlc icon has got to be one of the worst around. It's a pretty reliable player though, but I often just use qt and Perian.

You don't need to bother. These programs are great to run if your Mac is running poorly. Otherwise you can just get to work. It's a huge myth that we need to run these things on Macs if you are running a current version of os x. This obsession is a projection from the Windows world where you need to run scanners,…

Well some of the phone features are cool, like the new scroll bars. I'll be waiting to update.

Just because you show no signs of ill health from a high salt diet yet doesn't mean deleterious health consequences aren't developing. By the time they are detected you may be well along the way, and moreover you will find it difficult to transition from a poor diet the longer you are on that stuff. So, my point in…

Perhaps. But that depends on your body type. Some people tolerate a lot of salt even in processed foods while others are highly sensitive to it and will develop life threatening ailments. That was the whole point of my comment.

On os x to switch between open browser windows (not tabs) use command ~

I think there's a danger with this type of posture when it is an expression of underlying fear, which is just the flip side of the fetal posture response. One can get rigidly locked into the "military" posture, with the head forward, chest puffed out, as a way of bracing the body against life. My point is this posture…

Perhaps you're being ironic. If you're not, then this sort of reasoning is obviously fallacious. You can't generalize from a single anecdotal appeal to your grandmother to overturn a generalization of this sort. Besides perhaps your grandmother would be in much better health and live to 100 if she just curbed her salt…

This is the problem with making generalizations about health. Some people are fine with salt, others are not. Same thing with caffeine. Some people are prone to serious health consequences when they drink, say, coffee. Some are not. This is the story of life. For some reason scientists constantly attempt to make…

Improperly formatted PDF files are such a pain. If folks just formatted PDF files with proper TOC info then Goodreader for iOS is a pretty good reader experience. Obviously an HTML file isn't going to be much use as an ebook either. So you're still going to need to convert it. I like converting to ePub from Pages.…