You may not know this, but in OS X (especially Leopard), the spacebar is a very powerful key. Not only is it the key of choice in the Finder to view a file in Quicklook, it may also be your key of choice in dialog boxes. When a button is surrounded either graphite (as pictured below) or blue, just hit the spacebar and you activate that button, whereas if a button is graphite (as pictured below) or blue just hit the return (enter) key to activate that button.

Hopefully this little tip will help you improve your productivity.

I've finally gotten around to taking some pictures of my truck and putting the up on the net. Go check them out in the Images section.

Overall, NetNewsWire is a nice rss reader, but I would rather support the open source community and use the ever improving Vienna. The one feature in NetNewsWire that I would love if I had multiple Macs or was often away from my own MacBook for extended periods of time with web access would be it's syncing feature and being able to log into NewsGator and see my feeds on the web. However, neither of those two scenarios apply to me, therefore syncing isn't a valuable feature that will get me to switch away from the great Vienna.

I guess I could be called loyal, and I am to most of my applications. If there isn't enough to get me to switch, I won't. And I can't ever see how or why anyone would have paid $30 for NetNewsWire, I know I never would have, especially when there was a great open source alternative.

NetNewsWire, probably one of the most popular rss readers for OS X has now gone from a price of $30 to free. Up until now, I have been a hard core Vienna fan which has been free and open source since it's introduction. I've heard that NetNewsWire is a great reader, and I'm willing to give it a try now that it's available for free, so I'm gonna use it exclusively for a week and see how I like it. One feature that I feel I'll enjoy dearly is the ability to sync me feeds to NewsGator's website and view them online when I'm away from my Mac. That may very well be the deal maker for me.

Having my Mac lock when ever my screen saver starts can be a pain when I'm at home and I don't need it to be locked. That is why I enabled an icon in my menu bar that lets me lock my Mac with two clicks. However, the process of getting this in your menu bar is probably not what you would think. First open Keychain Access and then go to the Preferences and check the box that says Show Status in Menu Bar. That will put a little lock icon in your menu bar. To lock your screen just click the lock and select lock screen.