PC WEENIES
Tech Musings and Comics.
A webcomic and blog about technology, digital life, creative frustration, and the weird humor of living with machines.
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FrugalMac: Keeping Up Appearances
As a long-time Mac user, macOS’s customization options have slowly improved. (More customizing options are still needed.) Let’s start with some basic appearance tweaks, found within Settings > Appearance. From the top, I’ve chosen Auto to have my Mac change from light to dark mode, based on time of day. However you feel about Liquid…
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FrugalMac: Fixing the Finder Windows
Perhaps the title is a bit hyperbolic. I’m not fixing the Finder’s windows, I’m configuring them to work best for me. But first, let’s go to Finder Settings > Advanced and turn on Filename Extensions and Keep folders on top. I routinely share files between different platforms, so having visible file name extensions are a…
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Is Making Art Not Enough? Why?
Hat tip to Jason Kottke for bringing attention to this sobering and insightful essay by contemporary artist fnnch on How to Make a Living as an Artist. The number one mistake I see artists make is not accepting that they run a business. If you cannot accept and even embrace this simple fact, you are…