Never-before-heard, and still-not-heard

WTF? 2 Comments »

This evening I was made aware of the iTunes-exclusive track from Star Wars Episode III, “Battle of the Heroes”. The song came with the following description:

Never-before-heard dialogue

The song I downloaded had no dialogue. It seems like somebody made an oops.

[UPDATE 4/21/05]
Here’s the text of the updated description:

Revised description

Safeguarding your porn collection using encrypted disk images

Cool stuff 7 Comments »

With Tiger coming up shortly, it’s now more important than ever to keep your porn collection secure. It’s only a matter of time until someone using a shared Mac performs an innocuous Spotlight search that suddenly turns up a cornucopia of nasty porn associated with you. Depending on who finds it, you could get a visit from social services, suffer a divorce or breakup, be outed, be labeled a pervert, lose your job, or land in jail. In this instance, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.

Hiding such things from Spotlight is a good idea. To do that, you can create an encrypted disk image that is password protected to keep nosy users out, and the contents of the image don’t appear in Spotlight unless the image is mounted.

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What Spotlight is

Mac OS X 13 Comments »

Reading around the web today, it surprises me how few people actually understand what Spotlight is. I’ve read a number of pages and discussion threads discussing the various aspects of Spotlight in Tiger (a product shipping April 29) and the proposed metadata search function in Longhorn (to be released at an unknown date approximately 18 months away), and some people ask what the big deal is. The find function in their current OS finds files, why all the hub-bub about Spotlight?

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