iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

My fist dependent, my fist little one to care for, my poor little PowerBook. The problem started three weeks ago I was helping my parents try to fix their Linksys wireless routers problems (it was dying more than an unlucky Buddhist). I lost my connection to the new network I had setup and none of… Continue Reading PowerBook PowerBroke

The best IM tool for the Mac (if not any OS) is Adium, but that may change with Google Talk. The problem is, Google Talk is Windows only, for now, and though the website says Adium will connect to it, it does not say how — so I’m going to say how: Open Adium’s Prefrences… Continue Reading Google Talk & Adium

Concerned that MS Office is sending information out about your use of Office to other users on your local network? It’s your computer, block it! You can stop the server it sets up on port 2222 by adding a deny command to your firewall manually. Unfortunately this will stop your System Preferences Firewall options from… Continue Reading MS Office on the Mac Security Check

I was at the OPAS conference at the Rogers Campus in Toronto for most of this week. The conference was OK, but I by the measures of what new did I learn and what change was affected by the conference it does not measure well. On Thursday before I left to go back down to… Continue Reading TechTV Meetup

If you’ve read this blog before you probably know that I’m a big fan of Wikis and the Wiki concept. I think Wikipedia, the amazingly successful user-created/edited encyclopedia, is a great resource that I use every day that I’m in front of a computer. The Wiki concept of user-created/edited content also works very well for… Continue Reading The WebCT Wiki