My review of HoudahSpot as seen on MacZOT.com
Spotlight with more grunt. Need boolean queries in your spotlight searches? HoudahSpot allows you to do just that. For example, when trying free up some hard disk space, I could do a quest for files greater than 200mb and limit them to only video files.
NOTE:
If you’re seeing this on June 16, 2006 head over to MacZOT, you might be able to get a Free copy of HoudahSpot
Search easily in Tiger, Mac OS X, with HoudahSpot
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Use eml to mbox converter. Mail.app in 10.4 no longer uses the single mbox format. This program will convert the individual emlx files to a single mbox file.
In Windows, download IMAPSize. There’s a tool in there called mbox2eml which will convert the mbox files to a folder of eml files.
Open Outlook Express and drag the eml files into the Inbox.
Export out of Outlook Express. Outlook will be now contain the email messages.
Happy Birthday to me! (last week anyway)
On my birthday, the wife and I had dinner at this fantastic steakhouse called Vlado’s Charcoal Grill in Richmond. Great great place. It was an all meat affair. The appetiser was a sausage, the entree was mixed platter of calf steak, liver, chicken and pork and the main course is the best steak in Melbourne. And if you’ve still got any space left, either a choice of strawberry pancakes or ice cream.
After dinner, we made our way down to Federation Square and caught the second half of the Australia vs. Greece soccer friendly.
I also got some great gifts.
One can never have enough socks.
Or towels. This one is super soft.
Also bought myself some T-shirts from Threadless that were in the mailbox when we got home.
Make music, not war.
What Darth would do after retiring.
Heh. Emo.
I came across this quote today:
“Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate.” - Mister Jalopy
Screenshot from my email browser. Infer what you want.
First time using a tripod.
After yesterday’s Boot Camp excitement, I tried installing Parallela Workstation today. This will also allow me to install Windows on an Intel Mac, but instead of having to reboot into Windows, Parallels Workstation works just like VirtualPC, you run Windows within a virtual machine environment from within OS X.
The advantage over the solution offered by Apple? No need to reboot your system. This will be handy if I want to fire up Windows just to run a quick application or to lodge my tax returns. Parallels Workstation also supports other flavour of Windows and Linux.
Since it runs in a virtual environment from within OS X, the performance is far from running Windows natively on the machine using Apple’s solution. However, the performance is still very good. On a dual core Intel iMac 1.83Ghz with 512 MB of RAM, Windows XP is still very usable. I have not installed any programs so far, but general OS navigation, opening files and web browsing using Internet Explorer have been very pleasant so far.
Apple announces Boot Camp today. Now booting into WinXP on an Intel Mac is possible and officially sanctioned by Apple. Smart move this one. With the possibility of booting into Windows, Apple’s hardware sales will just sky rocket.
The guys here at work were excited. We started installing WinXP using Boot Camp on 17″ Intel iMac with a 1.83 Ghz processor and 512 MB of RAM. The installation process was very painless. This Mac is fresh out of the box, so we updated it to 10.4.6, downloaded Boot Camp and followed the instructions in the readme. About less than An hour later, WinXP was booting up. I timed it and from the moment of the Mac start-up chime to the Windows desktop appearing, it took 45 secs. The first thing we installed? An anti-virus. 
I found this somewhere but can’t remember the source. This allows you to do a software update via Terminal. The plus? No more windows prompting you to restart your Mac.
sudo softwareupdate -i -a