Domino @ Symetrik Design

Do you know that Mac OS X has a command line tool similar to spotlight?

try mdfind

It seems to work a little better than “locate”

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been confused by Apple’s code names for their operating systems.

Leopard, Tiger, Cheetah, Alley Cat, Tom Cat, and now Snow Leapord…

I always get confused as to which “dot” release is associated with which beast.

Will Snow Leapord be 10.6?

The wikipedia article on Apple OS X has a table which highlights which beast goes with what “dot” release, but I don’t want to visit it each time I forget.

What do you think about paying $29 USD for a “dot” release of the OS? Snow Leopard comes out at the end of the month, and I think they are pushing the envelop a bit.

One of the features listed on the Apple website is:

More reliable disk eject.

Snow Leopard improves the reliability of ejecting discs and external drives. Sometimes when an application or process is using the files on a drive, Mac OS X prevents you from ejecting it, but you don’t always know why. In Snow Leopard, you’ll get fewer of those errors and when you do get them, you’ll see exactly which application is using the drive, so you can quit it and eject the drive properly.

I guess I’ve just gotten spoiled with all the frequent free updates that I get from both MS and Apple that paying for one seems absurd.

You may have known about this for some time, but i’ve just discovered the PocketMac for Blackberry software that is available from RIM.

I was helping a friend backup/synch his contacts on his Blackberry Pearl yesterday and we were just about to purchase and download the Missing Synch, but a Google search yielded the PocketMac for Blackberry software, and the update, which are both available here.

It works very well, and the default configuration is to synch your contacts with the Mac OS X address book, you calendar entries and tasks with your iCal calendar.

It was simple to configure (actually I didn’t have to change anything), simple to use, and FREE.

kudos to RIM for this. I might actually consider buying a personal Blackberry now versus a iPhone or other smartphone.

I’ve been in the market for a smartphone, but many of them (non iPhone or Blackberry) don’t easily synch with the Mac’s. This makes the choice for a Blackberry much easier for me.

I’m wondering how I missed the release of this though?

The first post on the Notes 8.5 Beta discussion forum was made on January 18th. (I didn’t know that there was one). I got a notification from a user this morning that it was available.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/notesmacforum.nsf/5049ee164c54799785256bff00519260/720a4d3de548bbaa852573d40062a199?OpenDocument”>Notes 8.5 Beta Program announcement

This beta version corresponds with the windows 8.01 release.

I knew this would be coming out this week as Lotusphere started yesterday (Sunday).

A couple of things to note. This is a beta version. It works only on OS X 10.5 (not 10.4) and the standard version only works on the Intel, not powerPC version.