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This is a great slideshow on ActionScript 3 development from Grant Skinner.
ActionScript 3 Workshop Slides

I don’t have a bike right, but I used to. I wanted to bookmark this because I do plan on getting bike within the next year.
The Bicycle Tutor - Bike Repair Video Tutorials

I recently had to cancel a recurring transaction that popped up on my bank account. I wanted to make sure that it stopped and that I could get my money back. I found this great article that helped me out:Canceling CIC Triple Advantage: Get Your Money Back and Get Justice!

I have to say that the steps worked out like a charm. I was being charged for 3 months by CIC*Tripple Advantage (ie. Free Credit Report.com). I kepted being persistent but polite and was able to get a full refund.
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I’ve been thinking about getting an AppleTV to manage my media. But my fear has always been the size of the processor. I could spend a few hundred bucks and get one, or I could spend another $300-$400 more and get a mac mini. But if I did get a AppleTV I would definitely hack it. I came across this link from tuaw that has tutorials on how to hack your AppleTV: iClarified - Tutorials - AppleTV

When I log into the network at my job my Mac’s hostname always turns to:

larryx.na.corp.ipgnetwork.com

I have my local hostname set to:

larryx.local

So What I would like to do is set my Mac’s hostname to my local hostname. You can do this all from Terminal in a single line.

Run this command in Terminal:

sudo scutil --set HostName larryx.local

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Collis over at PSDTUTS has a really nice tutorial on how to make text with a grass effect in Photoshop. The results are really nice and the process is simple.

Check it out: Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop - PSDTUTS

Over the past few years, many technology vendors have put their focus more on security. Microsoft is no exception as is evident with the security enhancements in Vista. However, in some cases, all the security options may be overkill, especially if you are the only one who uses the computer.

If you do not share your computer with any other users and no one else has access to it, you can configure Vista to log you on automatically.
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While attempting to install the Adobe Flash Player plug-in on Mac OS X you might get the following error message:

error creating file. 1008:5,-5000 Access denied error

Then you’ll see this error message:

You do not have enough access privileges for this installation

There are two Adobe TechNotes that are associated with this issue (8d46f4f8 and 4aa64290) and 1 decent forum posting.

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Well it’s been a bit of a difficult time getting adjust to only using a MacBook Pro laptop for all of my day-to-day needs. One thing that I used to do pretty heavily is backup my DVD movies to my hard drive using Windows XP and DVDFab Platinum.

Well I tried installing DVDFab under Parallels Desktop 2.0. This didn’t work out so well. The copy process would get about half way through then it would error out. This was probably due to the DVDFab trying to write to the Parallels virtual hard drive.

Recently I decided to give it another try with upgraded software:

• Parallels Desktop 3.0 Build 5160
• DVDFab Platinum 3.2.1.0

This time it worked great! The only difference here is that I set the Target directory to my \\.PSF\.Home\Movies folder. This translates to my /Users/larry.gordon/Movies/ directory in Finder.

I’ve successfully copied 5 movies at DVD9 quality with no errors. There was minimal memory usage (no more than what Parallels was using when running no apps). And my CPU levels never went above 50%.

In case anyone is wondering, my system setup is the following:

• MacBook Pro
• Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• Memory: 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

On my next DVD copy I’ll add a few screenshots of the task manager and the activity monitor in this post.

This post will show you how to remove or edit shared folders from Parallels

Getting Started

1. Start up Parallels, but do not boot into the OS. Meaning your VM is stopped.
2. On your Parallels menu select > Edit > Virtual Machine…
3. On the left, select “Shared Folders” (it’s the 3rd option down from the top)
4. On the right you will see a list of shared folders

Removing a Shared Folder

1. Select the shared folder you would like to remove
2. Click on the button with the “-” minus to remove the folder

Editing a Shared Folder

1. Select the shared folder you would like to edit
2. Click on the button with “…” 3 elipses
3. You’ll now see the same window you used to add your shared folder
4. Make the appropriate changes to the Name, Path, Description, Read Only, and Enabled options
5. Click OK to complete