As part of the Mac 101 series, I am going to move onto the Dock. The dock is a very crucial part of the Mac OS X system. A lot of your interaction with programs will belong here. For example nearly all of your commonly used programs will reside in the dock, plus any programs you are currently using. As well as this icons such as Trash, stacks and other documents will end up in your Dock. Its an important place, so you better learn how to use it.
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I have a lot of hard drives. For example my internal disk on my MacBook Pro is split into to partitions, one for Mac OS X and one for Windows. I have an external backup disk, this is split into two, one for Time Machine and one for a bit more storage. I am soon going to get another disk to use as storage. What I am going to show you in this post is how to partition this disks so you can use them for more than one thing. It useful to have a partition. Its easier to split up files, and makes organising them easier. As well as this you can have more than one disk format on the same disk.
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I use Mail for my RSS feed reader. Its free, built in and does the job I want it to. But there is one problem with Mail. There is no way to export the list for backup and future use. What happens if Mail crashes in somemysterious way. You would lose all of the URL’s. You could go back and try to add them all, but you will end up missing some. This simple Terminal script which I have found, solves this problem.
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Last week I put up a post where you could win a copy of FixTunes. This post is designed to pick the lucky winners of this competition. There was a massive response (I think I got Stumbled) so there was lots ofentries . I have put all your entries into a random number crunching machine. The winners emails have been sent to the authors so you should get your serial soon.
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Its the beginning of the month, this means I will have a couple of advertiser joining this site. This time round I would like to welcome Accountz. This is an accounting application that you can use to keep track of all of your finance needs. I haven’t yet tried this app out, but has been featured in MacWorld so it is probably a decent app.
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