Writer, photographer, educator, and Internet Rogue. I help people make sense of and manage social media and web 2.0.
Watch for my book Create Your Own Blog in January 2010!
Search
Trim your 1Password backups!
I contacted 1Password's excellent support staff who correctly diagnosed that the increase was related to the preview images which are used for Login and Software License icons. (These can be found in the 1Password.agilekeychain/a/default/thumb folder.) Each preview image take about 100K. With 600+ items in my agilekeychain, this quickly added up.
Fortunately, this is easily fixed. If disk space is a concern, the icons and previews can be deleted using 1Password > Preferences > General > Remove all icons and previews. I also unchecked the box next to "Automatically download icons and previews for new Logins." After I did that, the backup size went from 21.5MB to 889KB!
I love 1Password and also backup my keychain to DropBox. I've been clearing out old backups, but now I have another trick!
Blogo now compatible with Snow Leopard
This past Friday, Apple released Snow Leopard, a slimmed-down update to Mac OS 10.5 with a focus on performance, stability and improving the core of the operating system.
Today we’re releasing the first Snow Leopard compatible beta of Blogo, which fixes the startup crashes which our users have encountered when trying to use the app after upgrading.
You can download the beta here. Let us know of any problems on this thread at our Get Satisfaction! page. Undo/Redo was the main area of the application which was affected by the changes in Snow Leopard.
Whew! I thought I was going to have to live without this for a while! I should have known that the guys at Brainjuice would come through with an update to Blogo.
Change Snow Leopard Finder prefs for faster searches
Unfortunately the default out-of-the-box action is still set to look everywhere on your Mac. But don't worry, it's easy to change. 1. Make sure Finder is your active app (either click on the Finder icon in the dock, click the desktop or a visible Finder window, or cmd-Tab to switch to the Finder). 2. Choose Preferences in the Finder menu. Or you can just use the Command-comma key combo to invoke Preferences. 3. In Finder Preferences, click on the Advanced tab. 4. Choose your desired search scope from the drop-down menu under the heading "When performing a search." 5. Close the Preferences and enjoy a search or two. That's it. Just one example of the many little changes in Snow Leopard that make life with the OS easier and more efficient. I hope you find what you're looking for!
One of the most annoying things about Leopard was that when I search within a folder the default was actually "This Mac"...not helpful. Now you can force it to be the Current Folder, but it isn't the default setting...
