March 6, 2009 | Filed Under Switch to Mac | No Comments
Posted by Charlie V. 
Did you know you have multiple ways of selecting text in Mac OS X? Here are some great time-saving tips to help you highlight text faster!
1. To select text one word at a time, double click on your starting word, and then begin dragging your mouse, words will be highlighted in their entirety, instead of one character at a time.
2. To select text on paragraph at a time, triple click on your starting paragraph, and then begin dragging your mouse, paragraphs will be highlighted in their entirety.
3. Double click on any word in OS X to highlight the entire word.
4. Triple click on any word within a paragraph, and OS X will highlight the entire paragraph.
5. Another method that beats dragging your mouse across text to highlight is to hold down the Shift key, click where you want to start highlighting text, then click where you want to stop highlighting text (while shift is still held down). Voila, your text is highlighted right where you wanted without trying to hold down the mouse button and scroll at the same time.
I hope these tips save you time and frustration when selecting text in OS X!
-Charlie
November 6, 2008 | Filed Under Switch to Mac | No Comments
Posted by Charlie V.
In part 2 of this backup blog, I’d like to talk about a fantastic system recovery application called SuperDuper!. SuperDuper! differs from Time Machine in the fact that it creates a fully bootable backup of your system, which is ideal if you have a dreaded hard disk failure and need to completely start over with a SuperDuper! is a breeze. You can choose to have the application take control and backup as often as you’d like, and the bootable image can be moved as one convenient (although sometimes large) file from one storage media to the next.
One convenient feature is the built in smart updater, which recognizes changes that you’ve made to your system since your last backup. SuperDuper! focuses on these changes, and can add them to your backup image without starting all over, which allows backups to happen quickly, and ensure you that all of your latest changes have been saved securely.
In researching both Time Machine and SuperDuper!, I have found that while they are both backup applications, they are even better compliment applications. Time Machine is great because of its instant search-ability, and its integration into the OS, where SuperDuper! shines at being bootable in case of hardware failure, and gives users that one image file containing all of their backup information.
Whatever method you choose, you’re doing a wise thing by backing up. As I said before, any system backup is better than nothing!
-Charlie