iTunes Tips and Tricks
So you have a 100 GB music library? How many duplicates do you have? Incomplete track data? Incomplete album art? Bad sound quality? As a musician, this happens to me constantly. Included with this blog post is a video of me demoing all the software I recommend and how to implement that software (and a couple of questions for you!). So, does your music library look like you just downloaded it off a torrent site? Does it look something like this:
Online Backup Stinks, For Now
Usually, it is a good idea to backup your computer; by usually, I mean it is always a good idea to backup your computer. My statement breaks down when it comes to online backup (because, if you go with the wrong service, your bill will be through the roof). I have been backing up my computer on a 3 TB external drive, but I realized, if both my computer and external drive (which are in the same area) were to experience an unfortunate accident, I wouldn’t have any of my priceless data. So what am I supposed to do?
Software Maintenance: Award Winning
We won an award! Software Maintenance (click the image to check it out) was the first major product from ZPU Systems and I was informed this morning that, without us submitting the product, it has been awarded the 100% Free Softpedia award and added to the Softpedia database!
Twitter stinks when it is crowded with junk. I have recently hit 4000+ followers and I was following most of them, until recently. I decided that I wanted a pleasant experience from Twitter, so I cleaned my following list.
I am currently following ~40 people because I want to follow them, not because of some social agreement.
Not really sure what Twitter is?
Zeke
What is Zeke? Zeke is my MacBook Pro, which has undergone countless revisions. The following is the tale describing how I came to meet Zeke (and Fiona along the way).
I bought my first MacBook Pro in 2009 and it was the largest expense I had ever made my young life. I thoroughly enjoyed it until it started acting up (~6 months later) and the trackpad wouldn’t respond. I also noticed that there was a screen defect, so I brought my MacBook Pro into Apple (after, of course, doing everything in my power not to bring in).
Apple informed me that I have to leave my computer with them for a week to get repaired, so I, sadly, parted with my computer. When I came back the following week,
Hard Drive Security
Let me give you a hypothetical situation: you’re selling your computer on eBay or Craigslist and you clean out your hard drive so no one can get your personal information. You clean your hard drive by reformatting, removing the partition, or deleting all your personal files, moving it to the recycle bin, and emptying the recycle bin. The buyer of your computer, with some tech skills, could access all your data. How are we supposed to prevent our data that we destroyed from being recovered?
On Internet Law
Internet Laws are foolish. Internet Laws are nonsensical agreements by nations on an anarchist medium. Internet Laws should not exist.
Now, I will justify these statements, but I must first say that these views are mine and mine alone; these statements don’t necessarily reflect the views of Zysys.
I will be discussing: SOPA, PIPA, and PCIPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, and the Protect Children from Internet Pornographers Act
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is the most awesome thing I have seen in a while. Bitcoin is a distributed online digital currency that is worth real money because we say it is worth something and is completely anonymous and very secure.
Here’s how it works (as far as I know…it’s really complex):
iWork and Microsoft Office
You have a Mac. You want to be able to create documents and there are 4 options for you.
1) iWork
2) Microsoft Office
3) Open Source Software
4) Web Based Software
Both options 3 and 4 are valid and reasonable options, for your office needs. For this particular post we will be covering iWork vs Office strictly because that is where more people will lean (Note: this is not a review, just an informative piece about which one to use when and why).
Biometrics and the Mac
It’s quite frustrating to us when we have a great idea and other people have implemented it. Don’t misunderstand, we are happy strong ideas are arriving into the world, but we are disappointed that we weren’t the ones to make it happen. That being said, I should clarify.
Biometrics on the Mac stink!
