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How-to: Rename a batch of files in 10.6 Snow Leopard
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Brad
If this How-to looks familiar it’s because I wrote a similar How-to back in April of ‘09. That How-to used an Automator workflow that was saved as a Finder plug-in and enabled you to select multiple files and then control-click those files and choose an action from the “more” sub-menu and from there the Automator [...]
GUID vs MBR
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Jon
My iMac recently took a dump… a real slow dump. It pissed me off because it looks like it was the HDD again. Yeah, I’ve only had it for 1.5 years and the HDD has crashed twice. The first time Mac replaced it and this time I went with a green WD 1T drive. A [...]
How-to: Batch rotate pictures using an Automator workflow on your Mac
Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Brad
In this How-to I’m going to show you how to rotate multiple pictures at once on your Mac using an Automator workflow. Say you’re drunk off your rocker in Vegas and somehow you took a bunch of pictures with the camera upside down and now you need to rotate them 180 degrees. Hey, it happens, [...]
How-to: Mac OS X batch file rename using an Automator workflow (10.5 Leopard)
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Brad
*UPDATE Friday Jan 8 2010* This post refers to using an Automator workflow as a plugin in 10.5 Leopard. If you’re using Leopard, continue on, otherwise go here for the updated How-to for 10.6 Snow Leopard. Thanks!
One of the few things I’ve found that Windows actually does “out of the box” that a Mac does [...]
default-information originate: A Cisco Implementation Utilizing BGP
Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Jon
Apparently a lot of folks have a misconception of how the default-information originate command works. The command is used to advertise a default route. Easy enough.
There are a few reasons to utilize the command, the primary one that I have found is as stated prviously. For example, lots of WAN sites hand off of a [...]