http://law.marquette.edu/blog Marquette Law School Technology Group Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:15:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After reading my colleague, Aaron Hecker's Tip of the Week posts, I thought it might be useful to provide some tips for our Mac population. As we are seeing more and more students bringing in Mac's, and I should note with few less problems than Windows on the support side, ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=196 Here's a handy trick which everyone should learn. To quickly cycle through all the windows you have on your computer, hold the Alt key and press Tab. You'll notice it'll bring up a windows showing you what's open. By default, Alt + Tab will go to the window you had ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=149 Have a broken key on your keyboard? How about two? Three? More? Maybe it's time to address the issue rather than continue to work around it. If you happen to have the dislocated key and all the plastic bits underneath, you might be able to snap it back on with ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=168 I'm sure you've all seen it before; someone finds a video of a cute puppy sleeping on its back and emails it to everyone in their address book. Fine and dandy, but so often people download the video and attach it to their email to send to you. What's really ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=172 For some time now I have been using the Ubiquity add-on for Firefox. If you are a Mac user, you might be using Quicksilver, which allows you to use the keyboard to launch applications, find files, and so much more. Ubiquity is very similar to this. It allows you to ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=182 Here's a good tip I wish people would use more: get rid of your screensaver. Why? There are numerous reasons. 1) You probably don't need a screensaver anymore. They were developed a while back to prevent an image from being burned into the glass on CRT (the giant tube) monitors. That ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=176 Have you ever wondered why the techies cringe when you shut your computer down by holding the power button? Or perhaps you might not think about shutting your computer down when the power company shuts off your power. Well, hopefully that doesn't happen often. In any event, you should always ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=154 Is your firewall enabled on your computer? Can you actually say yes with certainty? It wouldn't be a bad idea to check. There are a number of software applications which interact with your firewall. They have the capability of enabling, disabling, or configuring it for you. So how can you ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=146 If you don't already have Firefox, you should get it. In my mind there is no question it is a superior browser to Internet Explorer. It has great community support, is fast and secure, and has some killer add-ons if you want to make it your own. So if you're tired ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=152 There are a number of things you can do to speed up your computer. Most of those things involve software tweaking until your machine bows before you. However, one of the best, easiest, and quickest ways to improve performance is to upgrade your RAM (Random Access Memory). When you ordered ... http://law.marquette.edu/blog/?p=156