Consult the Dictionary trick in osX for Safari and Mail

One of my favorite little secrets in Tiger is the Dictionary/Thesaurus pop-up window that appears in applications such as Safari and Mail. Simply hover your cursor over any word and press apple-control-D to bring up a small window with the word’s definition. If you keep the control and Command keys pressed, you can then mouse over other words to see their dictionary or thesaurus entries as well. You can even highlight just part of a word (embark from disembarkation, for instance) to get the definition of a word within a word, or a part of a compound word (such as science from science fiction)

how to create easy passwords with keychain access in osX

it's so easy to create secure passwords, and there's no internet connection needed. it's built right into osX. just open the utilities folder, then keychain access utility, then hit the + button on the bottom. when this window opens, just hit the key tab and the utility window opens, which lets you choose the type of password, for example memorable, it will choose words that are easy to remember and will put in a number that is also not to difficult to remember. pretty neat, don't you think;-)

1st entry on blogger.com

let's see if i can keep psoting regular entries to my blog. i haven't meade up my mind what exactly i will cover and how often i will post... so let's see how things turn out...