Welcome back to another round of nerd. Have you ever wanted to learn about cronjobs? Then you’ve come to the right place for a basic overview. Wikipedia – “cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. cron enables users to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at certain times or dates. It is commonly used to automate system maintenance or administration.” So...

OS: Lion Mac OS X Version 10.7.2 As simple as it may be, some people may not be aware of the “Hide” & “Show” option within the Finder sidebar. If you accidentally Hide your Favorites, you may not realize that there is a “Show” button that appears when your cursor hovers over that particular area. This is what your Finder may look like. Hover your cursor to the right of the word Favorites and the word...

I’ve talked to a few friends that own Mac’s and they’ve all ran into the same “The volume can’t be ejected because it’s currently in use” problem when attempting to eject an external hard drive. I did a little online searching and came up with a solution. I’m not sure if it’s the best solution, but it solved my problem. FIrst, I ran into an Apple Support page which stated that it may be...

Most of us have joined the icloud extravaganza and are now dependent on Apple not losing our data. Just imagine how upset you would be if you all of a sudden lost all your contacts. I personally am running OSX Lion 10.7.2 and I’m going to show you a simple way to backup your Address Book contacts onto your local hard drive. Launch Address Book File > Export… > Archive Address Book… Choose a saving destination (I...

Have you noticed that you’ve lost a good portion of your hard drive space ever sense you upgraded to OSX Lion? This may be due to a Time Machine feature that now does local backups when your Time Machine hard drive is not connected. Why would Apple do this? By creating local snapshots/bakups allows the user to still have the capability of going back in time to recover their files (all the benefits of recovering your files without the...

I ran into a problem when trying to setup my iCloud account with Apple. No matter what I did, I couldn’t figure out how to complete the verification email part of the setup, as Apple needed my Apple ID to be an email address (the one I was using was not). I tried a few things and had no luck figuring out the problem. Come to find out, it looks like I had multiple Apple IDs related to the same email account. A very nice guy by the name...