What’s going on with iChat in Leopard. I did a reinstall after I got my new drive. The problem is that when I view my .mac IM list I see people that are available on the Buddy List window that aren’t showing at all in my menu. Weirdness.

If you are a Mac user and have Leopard this is a tip you might want to look at.

Try turning off “Show Icon Preview” in Finder. I have done this and two things have happened. 1) My machine is about twice as fast and 2) I can find documents faster.

On the second point I have been frustrated by Leopard’s preview view because it’s harder for me to find documents. When I’m scanning the screen looking for a document, I used to (and now do again) look for the icon of the program I created it with. Because I have documents that are created with Word, Pages, Keynote, Excel and possibly HTML documents all in the same folder, they all look pretty much the same in “Preview” mode. By turning that off I can “See” the document sooner by seeing that it’s a word document or spreadsheet without having to read the title of each document.

Something to think about.

The Passion of Steve Jobs: “Apple’s chief executive talks up his company’s latest products and offers some frank thoughts about his competitors.”

(Via NYT > Home Page.)

I’m just wondering here here, but I after installing the security update for OS X 10.5.1 Leopard. I seem to be having problems with my network drives on my Macbook Pro. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a problem with the update, but I’m wondering if anyone else has had a problem with it. I’m getting the dreaded beachball in finder and when I get it, I can’t seem to get any new programs to launch.

I thought that Vista was supposed to protect you against these things? Guess Not. Are you ready for a Mac yet?

Warning on stealthy Windows virus: “PC users are being warned about a password-stealing virus that hides deep inside Windows.”

Computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 that are not fully patched are all vulnerable to the virus.

(Via BBC News.)