Doing Good and having fun
from a friend,
This is a great site where you can play a challenging vocabulary game.
The sponsoring advertisers donate 10 grains of rice to world hunger for
each word you score correctly. Addicting!
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November 2007
Leaping Leopards!!
I'm using my Thanksgiving weekend to get to know my Leopardized Mac Book Pro. Apple's new operating system, called Leopard, has lots of new, nifty features. One of them is Quick Look which allows you to sneak a peak at a document or item without opening any program. A good discussion and set of hints to open a QuickLook'd document is found at Miraz Jordan's blog, Mac Tips.
8" less and pounds lighter
Just went to CatalogChoice and signed up to stop the receipt of all sorts of catalogs. I went thru my 2006 and 2007 of received-but-not-read/used catalogs and entered them in - a very easy process of clicking on the letter of the catalog name, selecting the right one and adding, if available, the customer number. In about 10-15 minutes of work [not work, really], I've 'unsubscribed' from unwanted paper catalogs. Hopefully, saving loads of trees. The stack of catalogs is now going out to the recycling bin and I've kept the catalogs I like or might order from, so I can go to the website and place an order when I want.
Check out things before you forward them.
I just received an email from a friend warning me of some dire thing that might happen and alleging that the warning is TRUE!!! Well, before I forward things I always check them out at Snopes.Com, a site where all the various urban legends and other Internet riff-raff are collected and searchable. Sure enough, the warning is 'false' and the background and history of it is laid out so you can judge for yourself.
Don't forward emails unless and until you have checked them out, if only to cut down the traffic on the Internet to a reasonable load for your friends.
Upgrading to Leopard in OS X
Take the time and do a good job and all should be fine.
I very carefully worked my way through the Kissell eBook on Taking Control of Upgrading to Leopard...doing all the maintenance steps and backing up [2X] and etc. It has taken the better part of the day but then I wanted to be slow and careful. I'm eager to work with it tonite and customize it a bit [another Take Control book] - but for now just know that using the step by step explanations in the TC book was great == and reminded me of or taught me about a number of other things as well about OSX.
