Viewing or Disabling Thumbnails

Navigate to folder and search options

To enable tick "always show icons..." 

To disable, un click "always show icons..."

Disabling Internet Explorer (Dead Proxy Address Method)

Open IE
Tools
Internet Options
Connections tab
LAN setting
Tick "Use a proxy server for your LAN
In address box type 0.0.0.0
In port box type 80 (if not already there)

Disc Inventory X (for Mac)

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way.

If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

Disk Inventory (free at time of posting this blog) can be downloaded from: http://www.derlien.com/

Moving iPhoto Library To External Hard Drive

Ensure the external hard drive is connected.
In finder, select the iPhoto library and move to hard drive folder.

Depending on how large the library is this could take some time. Once completed you need to let iPhoto know where the library is. You can select this by holding down the option key, otherwise known as the 'alt' key on a MacBook, and opening iPhoto, you will be prompted to choose which library to use. You only need to do this once.