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Having access to Wifi in coffee shops, book stores, airports, hotels and countless other places is wonderful. It allows for you to get out of the house and truly use that portable laptop computer to the full extent of its name.

This handy feature doesn’t come without its downfalls though, as I found out this morning. I was sitting in a coffee shop that will remain nameless, to protect it’s image. Because this has nothing at all to do with the coffee shop, it just happens to be this establishment that had been chosen as a hacker’s hotspot trap.

Of all the criticism that Leopard has received thus far, the new 3D dock is by far at the front of the line. There have been a ton of releases by developers and designers with mods and skins to change the color, and in some cases add really odd designs like grass, wood, guitar strings and glass.

For some people this is great. For me though, well…I simply hacked the dock in terminal so that it is displayed 2D, a thin grey outline, and a grey translucent background which works just fine for me.

With the recent release of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, Apple handed us what many believe to be the most innovative new application to hit the Mac in years: Time Machine.

But even with its’ dripping core animation goodness, and Apple’s boastful pride in this amazing new iteration in the backup application world, there runs the problem of excessive disk space being used.