Did you know that for the price of two movie tickets you can spend the full month watching interesting stuff that matters ? This is true, as long as a) your definition of of "interesting stuff that matters" is a bit on the nerd site of a spectrum b) you do not get full package with your movie ticket - I mean popcorn + soda - just the ticket. If you do go for popcorn, we should say "

Today I got to trying out the major feature of Leopard: the Time Machine. I was postponing it because I did not have proper external storage. Although I do have several USB disks sized from 100 to 260 GB, they are not empty and to clean them would take too much time that I currently do not have. Backing up on network drive would be technically possible - with some tweaking - but copying over network is always slower than USB2 or FireWire.

Why did I arrive to this conclusion so sudden ? After all, I have the iPod for over a month and half now and never really used it for anything beyond podcasts/music/videocasts. The answer is simple: 1.1.2. The Firmware update that appeared during last sync upgraded the iPod to latest version which (in addition to obligatory bug fixes) brought the long needed possibility of adding an event or modifying an event in calendar or adding/modifying an address card.

As time passes, I am discovering more little features that either fill in the still existing gaps from my Windows toolchain or add new features. Today, at Apple presentation about Leopard Client and Leopard Server I have heard great tip. The QuickView in Leopard is extensible with plugins. One very obvious and very useful plugin is ZIP View that gives you content of the ZIP file in preview without unzipping it.

no, not because of the memory it takes or CPU cycles burned (does not really matter when you have 4 GB notebook with Core2Duo). Few days ago, a good friend from old country (well, technically not anymore as he also moved within the EU) made me aware of this presentation "Silver Needle in the Skype" (link points to fairly large PDF file) by Philippe Biondi, & Fabrice Desclaux. To fully digest and fully comprehend the content requires way more time than I am willing to invest - and to make meaningful arguments for or against conclusions does require much deeper special knowledge.