Pilots with a Mac

Quick Tip of the Week: Using Spotlight to locate a file in the Finder: “In Mac OS X Leopard, you can instantly find and then immediately open a document using Spotlight. But what if you find a document and you’re not sure it’s the one you want to open? Or you simply want to learn where it’s located on your Mac? Instead of opening the file, find out how you can ask Spotlight to take you to where you saved it on your hard drive by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.”

(Via Apple Hot News.)

Apple had released an upgrade to the media tools that are provided with every new Mac. If you your thinking about getting a Mac or already have one theses tutorials online at apple will give you a good head start for using the new iLife 09 suite.

Check them out here..iLife 09 Tutorials

This is a really good article about the similarities and differences between the new Microsoft Windows 7 and Mac OS X. If you are a new Mac convert or your thinking about going to the Mac from Windows it might give you some good insight on the type of changes Microsoft is bringing and also explain how the Mac operating system works.

Check it out at ars technica.

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I have been meaning to finish a project that I started some time ago. I travel quite a bit and never really want to change my system time on my 15″ MacBook Pro. I just don’t want to forget to change it back when I get home or have some applications think that I am on a different time zone, but I still wanted to have some way to see what time it is where I may be in the world. At home this isn’t an issue of course because you can put the system time in the Status Bar in the top right hand corner of your screen.  But on the road its just nice to see what time it is when your surfing at some crazy hour! So I decided to add another time clock to the System Status Bar that I can control. 
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If you have a Mac and have had problems watching some video files either downloaded or sent to you chances are your just missing a Codec (what’s a freaking codec?). Just download and install both of these and you should be right as rain. 

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