Tips & Tricks
Easy & Safe Account Setup to Financially Support Family Overseas [HSBC Easy Send Review]
Like many foreign born individuals who come to the US to study and work, I’ve had to address the requirement of financially helping my family still living overseas – in this case my mother. I’ve tried a variety of options ranging from wire transfers to using services like Xoom. Unfortunately these services all placed an [...]
How to create a panoramic image of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco
I was up in the Marin headlands recently on a very clear day and was stunned by the view of San Francisco and the Golden Gate bridge. Equipped only with a lame Canon SD 300 digital camera which wasn’t quite up to the task of fully capturing the view I had, I decided to try [...]
Working around Boot Camp/Windows XP Installation Freezing
I was just trying to install Windows XP using Boot Camp on my Macbook and hit an issue where upon reaching the prompt asking me to “hit Enter to install Windows XP, R to Repair an Installation and F3 to exist” my Macbook would freeze. Rebooting wouldn’t help because there’s no way to extract the [...]
