Snow Leopard: Source image needs to be scanned for restore

I was in the middle of taking my official copy of OS X Snow Leopard and restoring a disk image of it to a USB Flash drive (you know, to make installation faster… yeah – that’s the ticket), and I came across this problem I wasn’t used to – Snow Leopard threw an error like … Read more

An Interview with Murray Newlands – Affiliate Marketing Blogger

Recently I was able to have an email exchange with affiliate marketing expert Murray Newlands, who recognizes the value of trust and the influence the social media can have over marketing and how influential blogging can be. Murray has his own blog over at http://www.murraynewlands.com/ – check it out and read our interview below (I’m … Read more

Google Acquires reCAPTCHA

Search / web app giant Google announced yesterday on the Google Blog that they have just acquired human-verification system reCAPTCHA, which aside from preventing bots from registering for web sites, also helps digitize books by confirming words that a computerized optical character recognition (OCR) system was not able to recognize. This is being used to … Read more

IZEAFest, Blogs, and More

I’ve been hella busy at work lately, and haven’t really had much time to post, and I’m really sorry about that. Not to you, but to myself. I do this for me – it’s fun and engaging, and I get to express myself and really help people while I’m at it. No offense, and not … Read more

Coupon Chief: Make Money Saving (You And Others) Money

With a plethora of deal-collecting sites out there (RetailMeNot, FatWallet, DealNews) – you’ve got a lot of options to find online coupons and deals for just about anything. While some of these just offer coupons, and some offer coupons and community, most of them don’t pay you to help find deals! Here’s where CouponChief really … Read more

Use Your Network Attached Storage in Time Machine

If you already have a NAS and it’s not one of Apple’s fancy new Time Capsules, you can still use it to backup your Mac using the Time Machine app in OS X Leopard. Here’s how: Open Disk Utility. Click on “New Image” and then name your image. Set the type to “sparse bundle” and … Read more

Sleep Apnea: I Has It

Sleep apnea is apparently a pretty common condition, and I know writing about it here is going to get my blog hit by about a thousand spam comments. I know this, because I’ve been tweeting about it and doing research and whenever I tweet something I get new followers and they’re almost all bots who … Read more