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I bought myself a lovely MacBookPro a couple of months ago and got myself a .Mac (now MobileMe) subscription at the same time (taking advantage of the reduced price available with a new machine).

I particularly liked the idea of having my address book and calendars synchronised and online, able to be used with the web [...]

Sometimes it IS that simple

Just recently, I have been having trouble getting my VMware machines to accept keyboard input.

The patterns:

Not a problem in unity mode. Which doesn’t help when you are trying to log in to the machine. Happens to both my Boot Camp image and to true virtual machines. Also happens on XP images and my Ubuntu image.

Of course, [...]

Launch Vmware fusion apps from Quicksilver

I switched to a Mac late last year (traded a Powerbook for a Compaq Presario) and immediately started being jealous of all the owners of newer Macs with their intel chips. Specifially, I wanted VMware fusion so that I could run those select few windows apps I have yet to find reasonable mac substitutes for.

So [...]

5 stars?

I’ve just started using the rating facility in iTunes.

Having only 5 stars to dish out makes it hard to differentiate levels of like or dislike when it comes to music, but I am going to have a go. And before you say it, yes I know you can give half stars or even percent ratings, [...]