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Leopard Update (10.5.2) is Live!

Posted on February 11, 2008
Apple has finally released an update to Leopard. Hopefully, this will fix the issues (especially with Network Volumes) that I have had with Finder up until now.

Picking a Hotel for the Bar Exam

Posted on February 08, 2008
The bar is 5 Months and 21 days away but people are already beginning to reserve their hotel rooms. After some research on google maps (click here), some advice from a friend, and this website, I decided on the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario. The room was about $130/night for Bar Exam Takers...

Testing Wordpress XMLRPC

Posted on February 05, 2008
In case you were wondering why anyone would post those last two entries with pointless pictures, I was simply testing the Wordpress XMLRPC interface that allows blog posts from other applications and websites. Thus far, it’s been flawless with Word 2007, OneNote 2007, and Flickr...

New Laptop Bag

Posted on February 05, 2008
New Laptop Bag Originally uploaded by atharkhan The highlight of my day was that a friend gave me this sleek (and light) laptop bag for my ThinkPad. I am so excited that (unlike my Kensington Laptop Bag) this one has has pockets and extra space...

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White Balance Check

Posted on February 05, 2008
White Balance Check Originally uploaded by atharkhan The white balance on my phone camera seemed off. So, here i was trying to compare the white on the top of the magazine with the white in my eyes (as you can see, both are kind of yellow)...

Rebuilding … again!

Posted on February 04, 2008
I had forgotten that Outlook 2007 seems to run better on Vista than on Xp. So barely two days after the last build, I decided to wipe out the computer and build it again. Also, there were two strange leftover portions on the drive — one was 7MB and the other was 4GB...

Spring Cleaning for the Bar.

Posted on February 02, 2008
I know the bar is months away but I figured now was as good a time as any to reformat my computer. So out with Windows (Hasta La) Vista and back to Windows Xp SP2. The laptop seems to run a lot smoother and faster with Xp than it did on Vista but then again, I have a lot less software on here too...

Should I get a new laptop for the bar?

Posted on January 29, 2008
These days, a lot of my friends are asking me whether they should purchase a new laptop specifically to take the bar exam. I think that is a valid question — there are enough stress factors on this exam that worrying about one’s computer probably shouldn’t be one of them...

A New Year

Posted on January 18, 2008
I was in Karachi when the clock struck midnight on December 31st. It had been only 4 days since Benazir Bhutto’s death and the usually overcrowded city of 20 million still looked like a ghost town. When 2008 arrived, it was greeted by the usual celebratory (and completely idiotic) aerial shooting...

Giving up on Leopard and “Upgrading” back to Tiger.

Posted on November 23, 2007
For a company that uses outdated CRT monitors with BSOD screens as their PC icons, and finds endless joy in bashing Vista in every commercial, Apple has released an unbelievably buggy operating system in Leopard. The very first day I used it, Leopard’s Finder Bug caused me to lose about 20 GB of music and school lectures...

Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device

Posted on November 21, 2007
I read about Kindle on Amazon’s homepage. It seemed intriguing enough so I checked out the Kindle Product Page and viewed a few videos. The website states that Kindle is sold out and will be available only on a first-come, first -served basis. I am surprised that it is sold out because the product simply doesn’t make sense to me...

Leopard’s Finder Seems Unstable

Posted on November 18, 2007
A few days ago, Leopard lost about 20% of my data during a move operation from a NAS drive to the local disk. When I searched around, I found that other people had also had problems with Leopard’s Finder. Now, I am noticing that even when dealing with the local disk, if the OS encounters a file which it is unable to handle, it simply hangs...

FolderShare is Dead Again

Posted on November 17, 2007
Another outage notice has been posted at FolderShare.com: Windows Live FolderShare Beta Nov 16, 3:00PM PST Windows Live FolderShare is being taken offline for maintenance. The service will be resumed in the next 48 hours. Thank you for your patience...

Is there a way to retrieve / restore / recover music files from an AppleTV?

Posted on November 16, 2007
In upgrading my iMac from Tiger to Leopard, I somehow deleted a portion of my music. However, my AppleTV has a copy of all my music prior to the upgrade. I am wondering if there is a way to restore the data from the AppleTV. Does anyone have any experience with this? -Athar...

Be “Easy to talk to” with Law360

Posted on November 14, 2007
Another aspect of being “Easy to Do Business With” is to be “Easy to Talk To.” That means being current and knowledgeable on/about the particular area of law you are interested in, a particular industry, your potential customer/employer, etc...

Is FolderShare Dead?

Posted on November 12, 2007
I have been unable to get FolderShare to sync my files over the last couple of days. I don’t see any outage notices on FolderShare.com. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? -Athar.

Be “Easy to Find” by using Emurse.com

Posted on November 09, 2007
The first step in becoming “Easy to do Business with” would be to become “Easy to Find.” In other words, if a potential employer down the street needed someone with your exact qualifications, how would they find you? This is why I would urge every jobseeker to have an online presence and to consider posting their resume (or CV) at www...

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