ways to quit and restart finder

haven’t researched this deeply or tried the options yet, but ran across this thread on lifehacker where a couple methods are mentioned.
totally silly, though, the way the people in the comment thread were getting so argumentative with each other. i mean, seriously, people.

mac apps to download

the hard drive on the macbook pro i use for work crashed twice this month, and i’ve needed to rebuild it twice this month. no time machine available at work, as the backup option the i.t. department finally bequeathed to me is 260gbs of space on one of the app servers, and i’m assuming [...]

how to export mail from outlook on a pc to thunderbird on a mac

am not going to give detailed or necessarily lucid instructions/steps, am writing this more for myself, just as a reminder, as i’ve had to do this two times now in the past month.
1) you’ve got outlook installed, been using it for mail, on your pc
2) install thunderbird on the pc
3) once thunderbird is [...]

adobe bridge is a very poor substitute

my attempt to use picasa on the windows side of my macbook, via parallels, didn’t work. the mac and windows sides are recognizing each other, can swap files fine, but picasa itself won’t recognize any files on the windows side, even if i list the network location as a favorite.
so i’m currently, the past [...]

successfully installed parallels 3 on my macbook pro

i now have parallels 3 on my macbook pro, and windows xp installed. so far, just basic browsing, installing programs on the xp side, running without a hitch. this is kinda cool. it took about an hour, the install process.
please don’t tell my i.t. person that the only reason i wanted picasa [...]