Archive for November, 2008

usb memory speed test

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A useful wiki with speed tests of various USB memory sticks (jump drives):

http://usbmem.heriet.info/

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cleaning the not so mighty mouse

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Every once in a while the scroll ball on my Mighty Mouse stops working.  According to google, this happens to approximately everyone who owns one.  Cleaning with a little bit of cotton and alcohol worked for a while, but recently I lost the ability to scroll down.  Doh.

After trying all the usual methods I found this wonderful description of flossing the scroll ball with tape.  Worked like a charm!

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