LastPass Hacked?

Password manager LastPass posted a notice on their blog last night that they may have been hacked. From the LastPass Blog: In this case, we couldn’t find that root cause. After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction (more traffic…

Album artwork disappearing in iTunes for Windows

My artwork in iTunes for Windows was randomly disappearing. In addition to the artwork disappearing, I had new information appearing in the track info when I played a song. Sometimes it was a new composer, or a new spelling of the same composer. It turns out Windows Media Player is responsible for this. It is…

MacBook Pro Audio Hissing in Sound Card – Fixed?

I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro 15″ 2.6 GHz laptop. It’s the last model before the unibody came out. The other day I noticed a weird electrical hissing noise coming out of the speakers. I searched and searched the Internet and found multiple articles about a hissing noise caused by the dual core processor….

SpinRite 6 really works

I was getting error reports on my PC. I ran chkdsk and found that I had some bad sectors on the disk. I ordered a new drive but then ran across this dos program called SpinRite. I watched a few videos and then paid the $90 for the program. It ran for almost 20 hours,…

DiskWarrior saved the day

I took my MBP to a friend’s house and it started acting weird. It was very sluggish and things kept locking up. When I got home I ran Disk Utility and found that I had all kinds of permissions problems, and a “Sibling Link Error” that could not be repaired. I Googled the error and…

Time Machine backup error solved, for me anyway

I purchased a new Seagate 500 GB FreeAgent USB drive thinking I would simply clone my MacBook Pro’s HD. I’ve done it in the past and it worked like a charm, but this time I thought I’d try Time Machine. I have never been able to get Time Machine to work wirelessly, so I basically…

Gmail contact picture problem

I’ve been having a problem in Gmail where my contact picture was not being saved. It would be there for the session, but if I changed computers or browsers my contact picture would be reset to an old photo that I don’t even remember uploading. Searching for answers yielded nothing but I finally figured something…

Firefox + Yahoo Mail = Problems

For the past few weeks I’ve been having problems with Firefox. I thought it was a Flash issue so I uninstalled and reinstalled Flash. All seemed well, but now every time I go to Yahoo Mail Firefox is sluggish and draggy until I quit and restart it. If I don’t visit Yahoo Mail I’m fine….

A Few Things Mac Should Do Like Windows

I know what you’re thinking. “Are you crazy? Mac is so much better than Windows.” That may be true, but there are a few things that I wish my Mac could do the way Windows does it. 1. Alt + TabI really miss my Alt + Tab keystrokes in Windows. I got it to work…

Default apps reset in Mac OS X Leopard

I noticed my default applications were getting reset in Mac OS X Leopard every time I reboot. It turns out that FileVault has a bug in it which causes all default applications to be reset. I found the answer at the Related Link below.

Deleting files in Mac Trash without permissions

I’ve had a situation where large files are in my Mac’s Trash folder, but I cannot delete it because I do not have sufficient permissions. I tried to create a new folder on my desktop and move the files there but I couldn’t do that either. I searched and finally found this snippet from Apple’s…