Eternal Search of My Perfect Personal Blog

Using a mac after an eternity with Microsoft software is like heaven. Interestingly I have never thought that heaven was fast, lightning fast. My Mac experience has been strongly associated with speed, due to my choice of MacBook Pro as my main machine, 4GBs of RAM I have on board and probably due to Mac OS X. The sense of speed is not available in BootCamp using Windows XP.

Mac OS X seems not to care about the number of open applications and the complexity of rendering visuals. It is as if there are reserve power under the hood whenever you feel like you need it.

There are however two components of Mac OS X, especially 10.5 (Leopard) that makes the experience complete. These are Quicklook and Preview, where the former is 10.5 only, while Preview has been around for a while.

These two applications help you access any resource any time with great speed. With Quicklook you can check the MP3 file you have found with no descriptive name with a single key or access contents of a document you have downloaded in seconds. The alternative is to load up a Word processor (and unfortunately word processors these days seem to be able to clog even a mainframe-class computer). Preview on the other hand opens tons of different file types ranging from images to PDFs and even manipulate them, converting image formats, cropping etc. I have to say that I am impressed these functionality is provided with the operating system out-of-the-box and works smooth as silk.

Note: While writing this post a memory of a game called “Dynamic Dux” arrived from the depths of time when we all had C64s and Amigas. I couldn’t find any pictures, videos and information for this game except some cheats. Can anyone out there help me?

After our bitter, very sad, and unfortunate defeat to Galatasaray on Sunday I hope tonight I can enjoy a great UEFA Champions League Semi-Final game between Barcelona and Man U. Although I can’t keep myself from disliking Wayne Rooney, I will be supporting Man U tonight.

Note: And of course I will be supporting Liverpool tomorrow -as if it means anything to anyone other than myself- as Chelsea is on #2 of my most irritating football clubs in the world list. No need to talk about #1 and spell their name twice in the same post.

Well if you are like me and have the weird problem of automatic space switching (where you click or switch to an application and the space it resides in opens automatically) stops working for some reason just go ahead and start activity problem and kill the process named “Dock”.

Today I got introduced to a great little software called HFS (HTTP File Server), which is a way to serve, share your files through a simple easy to use webpage. The beauty however is the size of the software and how it operates. This is actually a single executable file with no installation. Go ahead and try, it is wonderful and free…

I just can’t understand the madness associated with digital A/C in cars. These things doesn’t work. You hop in to your car, start it. The A/C is set to 21 degrees and outside temp is like 30 so it blows like crazy and makes such a noise that even hearing the stereo is impossible. Then you arrive at your destination and since it is scorching hot out there the A/C has been running like crazy all the way. What is the deal with being digital or automatic then?

Even if you will be driving a while, you set it to 24. It becomes too cold so you set it to 26, it becomes hot. Well I do not mingle with my manual analog (whatever) A/C as much as I do in cars with digital automatic ultra-super-high-technology A/C.

I just don’t get it…

is a no go unfortunately. You can not install Google Analytics on your wordpress.com blog.

Well since this is an exploratory blog I may survive with no Analytics in the short run.

As you may already know, MacOSX has a built-in spell checking feature available anywhere in the operating system. Today I was writing something and noticed that a word has been underlined in red, suggesting a misspelling. Right-clicking the word opened up a context menu, suggesting correct spelling and an option to add to dictionary…which…I…unfortunately clicked.

Now I have a wrong spelling in my dictionary and will never be able to spell notorious correctly. Is it possible to somehow remove this?