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Remove iTunes Dupes with One Command on QNAP or MacOS

Published on 15 Mar 2009 at 5:01 pm. Comments Off on Remove iTunes Dupes with One Command on QNAP or MacOS.
Filed under Mac,QNAP,Tech.

Edit 2009-03-16: After using this to delete dupes on my QNAP I found while comparing the backup file to my library that there were a few (3 out of over 100) cases where somehow the original file did not exist. For example Kanye’s song “I Wonder” only existed in my library as “I Wonder 2.m4a” […]

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mac os x to my liking

Published on 26 Feb 2009 at 1:34 pm. No Comments.
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Lately it seems I’ve been setting up or advising on setup of more and more Mac OS X systems. When a new windows user converts and loads up this “vastly superior” operating system their first thought is usually “ok what now” Here are a few things I do to every Mac OSX install that I […]

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MacOS reference guide for Windows switchers

Published on 2 Feb 2009 at 12:12 am. No Comments.
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The more people I convert over to MacOS the more IMs I get asking how to do common tasks. I remember going through the same thing as I learned to navigate MacOS.  Here I will start a list of common tasks and how to perform them on MacOS. I will update this page as more […]

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Send To vim for MacOSX

Published on 14 Oct 2008 at 11:07 pm. No Comments.
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Title it “Edit file contents in Gvim” leave all other defaults the same and in the Command window I entered: /usr/local/bin/mvim __OBJ_PATH__ mvim is the script that comes with Gvim that allows you to send a file from the terminal command line to gvim.

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Why I Switched To Mac – Yes “I’m now a Mac”

Published on 12 Oct 2008 at 11:15 am. No Comments.
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So the reason I switched initially comes down to one word: iPhone I knew I wanted an iPhone but the first gen without 3G or GPS just didn’t provide what I wanted out of a phone.

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