TSA Travel Alert – Laptop batteries

Jan 2, 2008 | Discuss  

Just a heads up for those of you traveling in these early months of the year. The TSA is no longer allowing laptop batteries to be in your checked baggage as of January 1st 2008.

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/batteries.shtm

The TSA rules are (as usual) arbitrary and a little stupid – but they can be expensive and cause you trouble if you violate them.

So, a couple of notes and suggestions:

Your laptop should NEVER, EVER be checked unless it is in a padded case with a hard-shell cover (such as those made by Pelican) – wrapping it in a towel doesn’t count. If it …

Two very handy apps – WinClone and Salute

Jan 1, 2008 | Discuss | Tags: apple  

The guys over at TwoCanoes have a couple of very cool apps that may save you some time and energy.

First up is Salute, which pays homage to the Windows ‘three fingers salute‘, which as any Windows user knows is ctrl-alt-del and saves you from typically inexplicable and painful software crashes. This version, for your Mac, offers you the pabilty to:
lock your screen with a screensaver (you need to enable that on your system first – click the question mark in Salute to learn more)
open Terminal – to kill those pesky apps from the command …