Saving 2660 Megabytes On Your New MacBook
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A friend asked me to set up a new Macbook he bought for his wife. With recent Apple laptop sales being what they are, I bet many people will be doing the same thing, so I thought I'd pass along one thing I've learned: always erase the hard disk and re-install OS X.
As loaded by Apple, a new MacBook running Leopard has a hard drive that contains 18.4 gigabytes of software. That 18.4 GB includes language translations and fonts you will probably never actually need. Reinstalling OS X and not installing language translations saves 1.9 GB. Skipping foreign language fonts saves another 141 MB. Not installing X11 saves more, so that skipping all these things saves 2.6 GB (or 2660 MB) of disk space.
NYT: Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft
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If you're long GOOG (or even if you just like Gmail), read this in the New York Times.
Find Big Files in OS X
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I just found a nifty freeware application for OS X to help scan my hard disk and graphically represent the file sizes present. It seems to run well on OS X, too. From the developer:
"GrandPerspective is a utility application for Mac OS X that graphically displays the disk usage of a file system."
I asked it to look at my documents folder and found a 1.5 GB file associated with an app I tried out but then deleted:
Though it's a free app, donation are appreciated, I'm sure.
Up the Creek Without an OS X 10.5 Paddle
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The new version of Mac OS X has been released. Yea! And, although it will be delivered to my door at home Monday, I'm at a conference on a small island in a state that doesn't have a single Apple Store (South Carolina--who knew?). Poor planning on my part.
Note to self: always check conference dates for conflict with major apple announcement dates or OS update releases. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
At least somebody thinks having a doctor around is good....
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Micromat, publisher of TechTool Pro (own it!) has released Syphone, an OS X applications which allows you to 'view, save, and backup' SMS messages. This is handy for when you have a particularly funny series of text messages like this:
Transfer Password Wallet Entries to iPhone
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I've been a long time user of Password Wallet from Zelznick Scientific Software. A password manager with 448-bit keys, it can launch url's and autofill usernames and passwords. Love it.
This morning they announced the availability of Password Wallet for iPhone. I purchased and installed it right away. It's slick, so I thought I'd post some screenshots. After exporting my selected Password Wallet records to Safari as a bookmarklet, I synced my iPhone with iTunes. I next went to that bookmarklet:
After entering my (correct) password I saw:
Selecting one of the records yielded (username and password erased, of course).
Got Aperture, Want To Upload to Picasa? Think Ubermind.
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I just found a nice plugin for Aperture which automates uploading photos to Google's Picasa Web Album site--Aperture to Picasa Web Albums. My unfrozen caveman anesthesiologist review? Grrr. Upload easy. Good. Grrruh.
Google Personalized Home Page for Anesthetists
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I made a tab on my iGoogle page for just my anesthesiology-specific widgets. Take a look...
