Category Archives: Thoughts

IOS Screen Capture

Posted on December 12, 2011 by ryan

To do a screen capture on an iPhone, press the home and power buttons on the phone together briefly. It should “flash” the screen and take a pic of your screen on the ios device, saving it to your camera … Continue reading →

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Showing hidden files in Snow Leopard

Posted on November 12, 2011 by ryan

In terminal type: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES To turn off, in terminal type: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

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Memorial Day Wishes

Posted on May 30, 2011 by ryan

Wishing everyone a great Memorial Day. To all our veterans, thank you for your service to our country. Freedom is not free, but through your patriotism and dedication we make it free for others to enjoy! God bless you!

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Ejecting a stuck disk in Mac OSX

Posted on March 31, 2011 by ryan

Try typing the following command in terminal: drutil eject Otherwise, reboot your mac and hold down the mouse or trackpad button while rebooting until the disk ejects.

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Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 flash drive problem

Posted on March 28, 2011 by ryan

After installing Ubuntu Netbook onto a flash or pen or thumb drive, I received the following error while trying to boot from the newly created drive:   SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin Unknown keyword in … Continue reading →

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Back from deployment… almost

Posted on February 10, 2011 by ryan

Hey everyone!  I’m currently in Guam and almost home from my deployment.  It has been a long six months mostly due to missing my wife and kids.  In case you don’t know, I’m stationed on a US submarine and have … Continue reading →

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Welcome to simplicity

Posted on August 22, 2010 by ryan

Hello and welcome to my newest blog.  In this blog I intend to keep a chronological record of the simple things that meander in and out of my brain.  It will probably only be interesting to me, but for those … Continue reading →

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