Copying a file from one drive to another is that simple on Mac OS X

I couldn't believe it that simply pressing the command key on moving a file to another drive will move it rather than delete it.

Security hijack

My dad had a very strange malware/ trojan that kept claiming he had various viruses etc. on his PC.

We found that http://forums.tomcoyote.org/lofiversion/index.php/t65317.html Gave perfect instructions to get rid of it.

Strangely the search for "thesecuritypage" on google came up with only one result, the above page! thesecuritypage was the page that the malware was causing IE to go to all the time as it's home page. Firefox wasn't affected! He is now listening to me about the fact that he is far too gullible.

Very interesting article about blog post frequency

I have to agree with this (http://blog.marketingprofs.com/2006/06/w_why_blog_post_frequency_does.html) post about blog frequency.

It is quality that is important, not quantity.

I do think there is some importance in posting every so often, otherwise some people will think that you have gone away. Post too often and the reader becomes overwhelmed in some junk, or as described in the article a land fill site.

I have to admit sometimes I'm not so clear in my blog posts, but that should hopefully improve over time.

web quotes in Safari UK

It's nice to see some more features filtering through to the localised
versions of Google Mail! Today I noticed web quotes at the top of the
mail browser. :-)

New version of quinn available for 10.4.2 and later only

See http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~siha-in/quinn.html
There appears to be a new version that is only compatible with Mac OS
X 10.4.2 and later. It would appear more and more software releases
these days are becoming Tiger required. Of course that isn't a problem
for me.

Two Weeks and had to re-install OS on MacBook

Today I came accross a nice little problem on my MacBook that I have only had for 2 weeks. I had a bit of a crash and oh dear, I could no longer launch application after a Safari hang. On reboot, it just hung. So I ended up doing an archive and install, with no ability to transfer the user over to the new system :-(

So I'm now back with a clean system, albeit with only 8GB of space left on a 80 GB HD. Hopefully this isn't going to happen again.

So now I'm off to the time consuming task of pulling back all my old settings.

Google Spreadsheet doesn't support OpenDocument

It would appear that Google spreadsheet beta doesn't support the
OpenDocument format for spreadsheets. It kinda surprises me with some
of the things that have been going on in the corporate world.

See more about Google spreadsheet at
http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html

MacBook loses battery life with single core

I've been trying out the MacBook on both dual and single core mode. With the help of CoreDuoTemp Utility and Apple's Developer Tools, I have found that it will always run at full processor speed of 2 GHz when you use the processor in single core mode. On the other hand under dual core mode it will generally run at 1.5 GHz, occasionally dropping to 1.333 GHz.

Even while it is compiling fink in the background, the processor is mostly running at 1.5 or 1.83 GHz in the lower powered parts of the compiler, slower than the 2 GHz max per core.

I do think that the power management could be improved to allow the processor to SpeedStep down to the minimum 1 GHz. Maybe someday Apple will produce a firmware update that will do this.

X11 Intel having same problem as PPC fixed in 10.4.3

It would appear that X11 Intel on my MacBook doesn't work due to a problem with the windows not coming to the front as expected. This was fixed in Mac OS X 10.4.3, and is now there in 10.4.6 Intel. Is anyone else getting the problem?

I need X11 for using OpenOffice 2, and it is a bit of a pain.

Google Mail chat now in localised languages.

Finally the chat in Google Mail now has been added to the various othere languages supported by Google Mail. It's just ashame that the web clips haven't been enabled in English (UK) as well. They are great.