I recently burned backed up my iPhoto library by burning the entire thing to a series of DVD’s.

After finishing this project – I deleted all of the burn folders from my desktop. But for some odd reason they remained in my Finder sidebar. I tried clicking on them, pressing delete, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Yet these old DVD burn folders still remained in the Finder sidebar.

Very annoying.

Recently I came across the solution and could not believe how simple it was.

All I needed to do was to drag the offending item out of the sidebar. Basically I opened a finder window. Clicked on one of these untitled DVD burn folders and dragged it into a blank area of the desktop.

And with a puff of virtual Apple smoke – the item disappeared forever.

I love it when things are easy!

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iOS4

iOS4 – that is the name of the new iPhone 4.0 operating system.
Just watching live coverage of WWDC 2010 going on right now.
As expected – Steve Jobs has announced the new iPhone – and it’s operating system.
First for the iPad – selling like hotcakes (we all new that). We can expect enhancements to the iBook [...]

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The Apple iPad and My New Website

I have been floundering around with this website for way too long. Finally, I decided to scrap what wasn’t working and start something new.
Since Apple came out with their new must have gadget – I decided to jump on the bandwagon, so to speak. I have been fascinated with all that the Apple iPad has [...]

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Surge Protectors for Mac Computers

Yesterday I wrote a page about the necessity of surge protectors for mac computers. I have provided a link to that page here on the blog.

For those of you familiar with blogging and websites – you may have noticed that I have recently been waffling between the two structures to figure out what works best [...]

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Database Software for Mac

I also find database software for Mac computers to be very useful.

Life is full of things and keeping track of them is important. The program that I like the most for this purpose is Bento by Filemaker. It is a sophisticated package and is developed by a large company with tons of experience with this [...]

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Journal Software for Macs

Good journal software for Mac is a bit difficult to find. I think this is because the range of expectations is very wide. After all, a journal is basically a book filled with blank pages – ready to take anything that a person wants to write.

Offline – this is a simple concept. [...]

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What Mac Accessories Can’t You Live Without?

While an Apple Mac computer works great on it’s own – there are lots cool gadgets to make it even better. Some things are just required – like good surge protectors for computers. Other things are just fun to own – and then there is everything in between.
Since I am a research nut – I [...]

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Apple iPhone vs. Palm

Just a little interesting trivia. According to Website Magazine – Palm sold 408,000 of its phones during it’s third quarter and Apple sold 8.7 million iPhone units during the same period of time. (quoting from memory here but I think I have that right)
Glad I picked the right one!

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Using Mac Recipe Software to Organize the Kitchen

I love to use my Mac to create order out of all the magazine clippings and off the box recipes that I seem to collect. A good scanner is absolutely necessary for the project (who wants to type everything in manually? – ugh!).

But I actually don’t use an official Mac Recipe software package. I have [...]

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Mac Software Reviews

Longtime readers may realize that I have revamped and slightly changed the format of this website. Instead of maintaining a blog format – I have started adding pages so the site will be easy to navigate.

As an AppleĀ  junkie – so to speak, I have added a page featuring Mac Software reviews on programs that [...]

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Transferring Files From PC to Mac

Transferring files from PC to Mac is actually pretty easy. But it is one thing that sometimes holds people back from making the switch.

When I switched to my Apple Mac laptop almost four years ago – my Windows PC was littered with files on the desktop and throughout all of those “my” folders. My documents, [...]

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