Webdesigner Depot asked me to provide photos of my home-office work area as part of an article they are running about designers’ workstations. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you want to remotely control a PC with a Mac? There are many commercial software packages and online services available. However, most of them are simply re-brandings of the open source VNC remote control system. Plus, you may find their performance to be lacking. I’ve been using VNC between Windows, Mac and Linux systems for a long time. With the resurgence in Mac interest, a lot of people ask me how they can access their existing Windows PC from their new Mac. Here is a quick and easy guide to getting a remote control system up and running using VNC. And by the way, its free. Read the rest of this entry »

If you use an Apple Mighty Mouse with Windows XP, after a while you might notice that the side buttons of the mouse click or fire themselves randomly at times. If you are trying to use a web browser, this can become problematic as you will keep going “back” to the previous page at random times. Luckily, there is an easy solution to this problem. Read the rest of this entry »