Nilesh Kapadia

You can define a keyboard shortcut for any bookmark in Safari (in Mac OS X). Here is how:

* Go to Keyboard & Mouse preferences and the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
* Click on "Application Keyboard Shortcuts"
* Click the + button
* Select Safari.app for Applicaton
* Put the exact title of the bookmark in the Menu Title (spaces are fine)
* Enter in your keyboard shortcut in Keyboard Shortcut

I have been watching the iPhone for a while, but just recently bought one. I'm going to keep updating this entry with my experiences with it so far and my opinions of it.

What it needs (to be competitive with other phones)

* Bluetooth A2DP support (stereo sound)
* Tethering of some sort (via Bluetooth or WiFi).
* Copy/Cut/Paste
* Bluetooth keyboard support
* A good solution for in-car use
* Voice dialing
* Support for more Bluetooth profiles in general
* Multi-media messages (MMS) support (ie picture messages)
* E-mail search options

A VMWare employee (Eric Tung) has written up some unofficial guides for VMWare Fusion which are useful:

A Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion

A Power User's Guide to VMware Fusion

The Power User's Guide is especially useful and has some interesting features.

I don't personally own any Apple notebooks at the moment, but I have done some research into buying one (though I ended up getting a Mac Pro). I recently had a friend ask me about them, so I have written up some things to consider when looking at purchasing one. You of course have two options: the MacBook and the MacBook Pro.

The first step is to look at the online store (http://store.apple.com/) and look at the different options, specs, and prices for the two notebooks.

Things to consider in either case:

If you are using iLife '06, I'd recommend sticking with it for a while instead of upgrading to '08. Feature-wise, '08 is excellent, but there are major stability issues that almost render the apps unusable in some cases. Here is a run-down of what I've experienced:

One of the things that I miss from Firefox when I use Safari or Konqueror is the find-as-you-type feature. For those unfamiliar, this is a feature that lets you start typing and it will automatically find what you are typing immediately in the current page. This can be configured to only activate after you have pressed the "/" key.

So I found AcidSearch which does exactly that.

I had some issues getting Mac OS X to work properly with my Iogear GCS1714 KVM and my Logitech MX310. The Logitech drivers would not recognize the mouse if it was connected through the KVM. Without the Logitech drivers working, the scroll wheel was acting crazy and I could not assign the other buttons. IOGear goes as far as to advertise how their products work with the Mac Mini, but this is one of those issues to watch out for. The solution to this problem was to use USB Overdrive which is a 3rd party driver that supposedly works with any mouse.