MacBook!
Because I now travel, and demonstrate programming strategies for front-end Web, I had to have a truly portable programming environment 
Things to like
- Two-finger scroll
- Speech commands
- Sync’ing my Treo over Bluetooth!
- Sync’ing my Treo to iCal, sync’ing iCal to Google Calendar, sync’ing Google Calendar to iCal
- That little camera on top of the screen
Tweaks
Changed the “Wireless Channel” on my LinkSys WRT54G I was getting terrible connectivity through AirPort. So I went into the configuration panel for my WRT54G wireless router. There I navigated to Wireless > Basic Wireless Settings and changed the “Wireless Channel” from 2.437 Ghz to 2.412 Ghz. No more problems with connectivity!
After a couple hours of configuring my MacBook, I noticed a dead pixel on the screen. This surprised me because I would have expected Apple to catch that in quality assurance. But when I went back to the Apple Store, I was told one dead pixel is “within Apple’s technical specification.” Right, but you replace the machine every time that happens. At least I got to the store at 9.30 am and so the whole exchange took about 20 minutes.
Tweaks
Tricks
Switching Windows
When Cmd-tabbing between applications, hit…
- H to hide an app
- Q to quit
Cmd-` is more like the OS X version of Windows’ Alt-Tab: with it you can tab between application windows!