Chris Degiere and Associates

Whenever I have a how-to computing question I usually hit up lifehacker. They seem to have the answer to most every question like this one: “What’s the best way to remote control my Mac from my PC?”. Here are some helpful posts on this topic. I’ll let them explain:

• Back to My Mac from a PC?
• Remote Control Leopard with TightVNC
  

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Brilliant design or impossibly impractical packaging? I was one google search away from smashing it open and apparently I’m not alone:

• Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve
• How to open Microsoft Office 2007 Product Box or Microsoft Vista Product Box

What do the proud parents think?

Some of you using Windows XP and OS X in the same environment may have encountered this. In order to have a Mac and PC both able to write to an external USB drive, the disk must be formatted Fat32. Windows XP will not let you format a Fat32 disk larger than 32GB as one partition.

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