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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 ...

Amazon vs. iTunes

I bought some new music online the other night. It was easy, cheap, and the songs appeared directly in my iTunes library and synced up with my iPod without a hitch as usual. I've done this many times before so it wasn't really noteworthy, except this time I didn't buy any of the music ...

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 ...

Macbook Impressions

I recently bought a Macbook. This is the second time I've owned a Mac in my life, the first being a brief encounter with a PowerBook Duo in the early 90's, so for all practical purposes, it was a completely different machine. I had been using a Sony Vaio PCG-TR3P for the last ...

Easy Encrypted Backups to a USB Drive

For the last year and a half I've been regularly backing up my data to a 1GB USB drive. Its small enough that I always keep it with me (its clipped to my keychain) so if I ever need access to some important information its right in my pocket (assuming there is a PC ...