When you drive a Prius (like me), and you always have your lights on (like me), you probably have been irritated by the dimmed speedometer and unreadable display in bright sunlight (like me). If you didn't read the owners manual (like me), you also probably didn't know about this trick to get the brightness back (like …

I just bought a Maxtor Basics 1TB drive, and found that I could not seem to format it using the Leopard Diskutility. Then, I found this page which contained the golden tip. I'll save you some reading: 1. Open Apple's Disk Utility 2. Click on the drive (not the partition in it, if there is any), and select …