Here’s a tip that might be interesting to those crashnauts who frequent Apple’s OSX operating system:

Many OSX users have noticed that the system wide spotlight indexing system isn’t quite as revolutionary a feature as it was originally touted to be. Yes, kernel-level integration means that OSX enjoys an unprecedented amount of accuracy of information in regards to its files, but if the results of a spotlight search are difficult to use, that really limits how useful of a feature spotlight ends up being.

The keystroke opt-cmd-space provides a bit of an improvement over the normal cmd-space keystroke in that it brings up a full spotlight window, which allows you to sort the search results and find paths, modify dates, and reveal those items in the finder.

Spotlight still has some growing pains to work through, but for me this nifty trick will improve my spotlight sessions for the time being, as we wait for some boolean goodness in OS 10.5 Leopard.

Check out this cool bandwidth tester. It’s available at speedtest.net and unlike other more simple sites, it provides a graphical representation during the testing. You are presented with a map and can ping different servers around the world to determine your current download, upload, latency and even geographic distance. Check out my hot 20Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up!

Fans of Apple’s OSX are gearing up their browsers for the World Wide Developer’s Conference, Apple’s premiere showcase for upcoming software technology, including Mac OS 10.5: Leopard.

The rumors have already begun to fly, ranging anywhere from semi-reasonable hints of Intel based Mac Pros and new iPods, to the vaporware speculation about iPhones.

The only sure thing is that this week will give us a glimpse at what we can expect from Apple over the next year, so pull up a chair, and bookmark yourself a live-feed Keynote site!

Using voice recognition in Microsoft Vista makes you sound like a deranged lunatic!