I know some of you think I’m a bit bonkers when it comes to Macs. Yeah. I can understand that. Especially if you’re a PC user. Nevertheless, as proof that I’m not totally bonkers, I ask that you read these comments from my Welcome to New Members of the Mac World post.
This is a good one folks. The nice people of Mac Bundle are at it again. You want to take a look here. I ESPECIALLY encourage new Mac users to check this out. These folks come up with incredible offers all the time for good causes. If you have $49 laying around, you definitely want to take a peek here. For that price, you get $341 worth of very nice software.
If you ask me this is one of the best bundles I’ve seen them put together.
I want to take the time to welcome three folks to the world of Mac: KenJo, Elvis, and the good lady Linda Sue. All three purchased their Macs (MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Pro respectively) in the last two weeks. My advice to them is enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! I also recommend they take a little time to browse through the Screencasts Online site to help along the way. As a matter of fact, they should start right here. 
Lastly, specifically to them, I’d really appreciate it if you could drop me a few lines saying what convinced you to finally join the growing club of Mac users.
Happy Mac’in!
For those who know me, you know I’ve doubted the case for global warming for some time. I’m not alone. It now seems the evidence is increasing for global COOLING. Yep, yep.
I recently came across a VERY handy little Firefox extension that I have to quickly tell you about. It’s called Morning Coffee. The name is cool enough, but I think it fits quite well.
As I alluded to in my previous post, there are daily IT-related things I do that I don’t like to spend too much time on. One of those things is opening up the same internet sites I visit. Morning Coffee is perfect for this. It allows one to add bookmarks into your “Morning Coffee”. You can choose if you want those bookmarks to open up on a specific day of the week only, Monday/Wednesday/Friday, weekdays, weekends, or every day.
Once you’ve decided that, you simply press the arrow, select “Load My Morning Coffee”, and the bookmarked web sites you selected for that morning come up simultaneously. Excellent.
I need to point out that Morning Coffee is a Firefox extension, so it should work on whatever version of Firefox your using.
Enjoy! 
Every now and again I see something “new” in the Windows world that makes me wonder how long Windows users have been without it. One fine example of that is what we in the Mac world call Spaces.
Plain and simply, Spaces allows Mac OS X Leopard users to use multiple virtual desktops. This is pretty handy if you’re like most users and use multiple applications simultaneously. I, for example, on a daily basis, wake up, open up Firefox, Apple Mail, and iTunes in order to check my usual web sites, check my e-mail, and update the podcasts I listen to daily. Being able to do all of this at the same time while going in between different desktops is pretty nice.
It seems not that Windows Vista users are able to join us Spaces thanks to a new virtual desktop tool made by Windows Sysinternals folks, who were gobbled up by Microsoft back in July 2006. They’re calling the new tool “Desktops“. I say good for them, and good for the Vista folks who finally get to experience a multiple desktop environment. Once you get used to it, you’re going to wonder how on earth you made it so long without it. The only thing I’ve noticed on the surface is that Desktops limits one to only four desktops. Normally, four is just fine for me, but every now and again I find myself doing things like remembering to download a video from my N95 to post on Facebook (this literally just happened), so I tend to get right on it in the middle of whatever else I’m doing. This sometimes requires more than four desktops. Also, with Spaces one can specify which desktop (they’re numbered) they want to use for a particular application. I tend to use desktop 1 for Firefox, desktop 2 for Mail, and so on. This is a very nice feature for users like myself who tend to wake up, go right into Quicksilver, and simply open up several apps with a few shortcut keyboard commands.
So, to those of you joining us Mac users (and Linux users have been enjoying this even longer), I say welcome. I hope you enjoy the new feature, and may your productivity increase as well.
I was just messing around with the Preferences of the Dictionary on my Mac and cam across something quite interesting. When I selected Wikipedia, I got the chance to select one or more language versions.
THAT impressed me. 
