Anonymous ssh Access

I use ssh to manage my OS X and Ubuntu machines. It's one of those things I setup once when I build a new machine, but then don't think about too much and often forget the steps to set it up correctly, so I thought I'd write it down. The steps are pretty simple: 1. create a key ...

Digging Into Spotlight

I came across a nice article on advanced searching using Spotlight that talked about search keywords like kind and date, and as I read it I thought to myself I wonder what other cool keywords you can use in Spotlight? At first blush, this seems like the type of innocent question that should be ...

Minor Frustrations

In case I gave the impression in my last post that I'm just another Mac fan-boy who never finds fault with any of there products, I did encounter two problems when setting up my iMac. The World's Largest Console The first problem arose after I had transferred over all my applications, data ...

Jumping out of Windows

A couple of months ago I posted my initial impressions of the MacBook, or to be more accurate, my thoughts on moving to a Mac after many years as a Windows user. As I mentioned then, the support for Windows on the new Intel-based Macs created just the low-risk situation I needed to dip ...