Category Archives: FYI

Create iPhone Ringtones for free

I haven’t tried this yet, but I’m stoked about a relatively simple way of creating some different ringtones. I’ll probably just use Garage Band to cut the music.
Hopefully someone finds this useful.

Mac OSX Must Have: Perian - Codecs for Quicktime

o Mac OSX install is complete without Perian. It’s s life saver. If you haven’t ever had the type of headache that I had or never want to: save yourself and get Perian ASAP!

Freeware Mac App: AppCleaner

FreeMacSoft.net has a great little application remover for Mac OSX simply called AppCleaner. It works much like AppZapper ($12.95)

Free Mac program to convert Office 07 & 08 docs

This might come in handy if someone emails you a file saved as a .docx or pptx or whatever the other new fangled file extensions are. I’m currently running NeoOffice so this could come in handy for me sometime. Maybe it could help you out.
Here’s the link to the Microsoft Download Center page.
via [Webmonkey]

Need Avery label templates for Photoshop?

I’m going to print up 300 CD labels for my buddies new Album. I bought the 8931 CD labels from Avery but it only came with some bullshit software that I would have to install on my computer. I went to their crappy website to look for a some sort of generic template that I [...]

The Key to Kick-ASS Coffee

No matter what brand of coffee you buy or how you brew it. The way you grind it has a lot to do with the quality of coffee that you’re gonna get.

About two years ago I started to really get into drinking good coffee. I was thinking about getting a nice espresso machine, however [...]

How to add events from an ICAL feed into Outlook

ICAL is a standard way to export calendar events. If you’re using a Mac is really easy to import this feed, but Outlook 2003 on Windows XP doesn’t make it quite so easy.

To add an ICAL calendar with all events to a Outlook:

Download the ICAL file, example: name.ics
Go to your Outlook calendar.
Click on File > [...]

Trackthis - Package Tracking via Twitter

PB30 has just created an awesome new Twitter service, Trackthis. Like Twitter, the premise is simple, get package updates in Twitter instead of getting package tracking updates via email or going to the shipping company’s website. It works with FedEx, UPS, USPS, and DHL.
To track a package all you need to do is send an [...]

Vista Fix: Open URL’s from Adobe AIR apps into Firefox instead of Internet Explorer

I hate IE, it’s a piece of crap. I especially hate it when my beloved Adobe AIR applications like Twhirl and Pownce open URL’s into Internet Explorer Even though Firefox is my default. This only happens in Windows Vista and not Windows XP.
Well, there is a simple fix, It turns out that you have to [...]

Images: Commander Naval Surface Forces logo/seal

Last night I was working on a retirement booklet for a guy. And he needed this logo on the front. But I couldn’t find one bigger than 150 pixels anywhere!
By some weird chance this guy at work had this logo in a PowerPoint file; totally saved my ass.
So I’m posting it here for the next [...]