Occasionally I'll watch Sunday night NFL games on the NBCSports.com website. The NBCSports.com video player allows you to watch video full-screen. The problem is that even when watching full-screen, you've got wasted space to allow for the different camera angles that they offer.

NFL on NBC Video Player Window - Full-screen

Here's two ways to increase the size of full-screen video using a built-in MacOS X shortcut.

I'm a big fan of Google Analytics and use it on most all of the sites that I build. I recently installed a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) to a site of mine and was hoping to use Google Analytics to track the searches that were performed on the site in the Google CSE.

The problem is that after a couple days, there were still no results. It was off to the Google CSE Discussion Group to search for the answer - and I found it.

If you host your website on a server that runs Plesk as the Control Panel, and you actually make back-ups of your server, then at some point you are probably going to want to access the files located on the Plesk generated back-up.

With some free software, it's easier than you think.

I love Amazon Prime.

The one drag about shopping online is that there is no instant gratification.  You have to wait and wait for your product to arrive (unless it's a digital download - but we're talking about physical products here). 

Yesterday I wrote an article about my first impressions of MacOS 10.5 'Leopard'. Today, I have a slightly different perspective as for the first time ever, I've had a failure when installing a version of MacOS X.
In this article I'll provide a way for you to (hopefully) recover the files that are on your system in the event that the same thing happens to you. 

I received my copy of MacOS 10.5 'Leopard' yesterday via FedEx and promptly installed it on 3 of 5 computers that I have at home and in the office (a PowerBook G4, iMac (Intel) and a PowerMac Dual Processor G5).  I also began an install on an iMac G5 which failed on the first installation attempt (and is currently in the process of installing - 2nd attempt). I thought I'd share my impressions of the new OS X (one - because I want to get in the habit of writing more and two - because I was hoping to get some feedback from other users).

To begin, I must admit that I am an unabashed fan of Apple products, and have been since working on my high school newspaper way back in 1992 - 1993. I've used MacOS X since day 1 (all the way back to the first release of the beta version of MacOS X) and feel that I have some insight into the evolution of an OS that is now in its sixth iteration. Below I've listed my first impressions of what I feel is 'The Good', 'The Bad' and 'The Ugly' of MacOS X Leopard.

The great thing about the internet is that if you have a problem, you can usually find a solution to that problem.  The problem I had was that my wife got a new Motorola V365 cell phone and we needed to transfer all of her contacts to the new phone and I thought iSync (via Bluetooth) would be the easiest way to do it. WRONG!

iSync would not recognize the V365 (actually, it did recognize it - it just wouldn't support it).

Fortunately, a search provided a fast and easy solution to my problem.