If you can’t tell, I am a heavy user of Quicksilver. It is far superior to Spotlight for cataloging, searching and finding documents. If you are a Del.icio.us user then here is a QS tip to allow you to search your own bookmarks AND TAGS!
Select the “Del.icio.us” plugin from the preference window of Quicksilver Now go to the preferences pane and choose “Catalog” Add your delicious bookmarks as a new catalog
It looks like I was not the only Mac Pro owner that was disappointed by the lack of Parallels support. TUAW has an article with a link to the Parallels blog. It also looks like a fix will be out “soon” according to Parallels own blog. Maybe I will finally be able to boot Windows XP Pro on my Mac Pro without a kernel panic. That would be excellent .
I have used the Mac for quite some time. Long before Apple got behind the idea of a flat directory structure (just take a look at your “Applications” folder). Needless to say, my “Documents” folder has received its fair share of spring cleaning. This usually amounts to putting documents in sub folders whose name makes since at the time, but I quickly forget…and lose the document. One of the nice attributes of a system running Quicksilver, is that you don’t need to remember where you put those files.
I have had an HP Scanjet 4670 scanner since they first came out. It is one of those vertical see-through scanners. It works great. You can lay it on a book or use it vertically. It takes up minimal desk space. But the most impressive thing about it, is that it just works well with the Mac. HP provides some pretty useful software called “HP Image Zone.” It is composed of several smaller applications that handle fax, scan, photocopy, etc.
My battery has steadily lost it’s will to power my 17" Powerbook. Granted, it is 2.5 years old now. A month ago I decided to give Coconut Battery a try to see how much more I could squeeze out of it before I had to invest in a new one. It’s a pretty nice little app. It doesn’t have any bells and whistles, but it does what it needs to do (which, frankly, is a nice change for an application).
One of the biggest disappointments about the Mac Pro, is that it will not run Parallels. Oh you can install it and setup a VM, but if you try to RUN the VM then it just crashes. As most Mac users are aware, Apple Macs do have crashes. 90% of them are related to poor programing, not to Apple issues. This is one of them. I've contacted Parallels manufacturer, um.
I was browsing through my local Apple store carrying around a copy (the LAST copy) of Aperture and “Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture (Apple Pro Training Series)” like I was ready to make the purchase. Now I’m no professional photographer. In fact I take pretty average pictures which is why I want some software to make them look better. If I was a good photographer I wouldn’t need touch-ups. A eventually stumbled upon LightZone.
I think every long time Mac user is friends with Quicksilver. In fact I list it as one of my favorite Freeware apps. I find it difficult to use a Mac that doesn’t have it installed. The calculator plugin for Quicksilver is extremely useful. To install it, go to the preferences for QS and check the box next to “Calculator Module”
Once it is installed, invoke QS (mine is activated by ctrl-space) and hit the period on your keyboard.
I got this one while trying to delete some old archives from Apple’s “Backup” on my iDisk. Great, I only have to wait for -18 more files to be deleted. Wait…huh?
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As I mentioned previously, I decided to implement Apple’s FileVault as a security measure (in contrast to Knox).The instructions were easy enough:
Turn on FileVault
Wait…
enter password
The problem was when I tried to start FileVault, I received this bizzare error message:
Huh? Is that even possible? I thought the Mac Pro could only have 2TB of storage. I mean come on!
