Daniel Miessler discusses the benefit of using Quicksilver, one of the mandatory mac applications, for searching the web – instead of using your browser. So you are in any app and you want to search for something online? Use Quicksilver. I blog from Textmate, so if I need to search for something on google (or elsewhere) – Quicksilver does it for me. Its a very simple process to use as described by Daniel on his blog entry.

You’ve got a household full of PC’s and you’ve stopped yourself from getting a Mac because you don’t want to deal with incompatibilities. Eight years ago that would’ve been understandable, but today Mac OS and Windows can work together in harmony on the same home network. Here’s a primer on how the two systems inter-operate. I have been using Macs now for 5 years, and the compatibility issues that one would have been there are practically gone.

Growl has been updated to V1.1.1. This is a MUST HAVE application for any Mac user, and without any further hesitation you can download it from the growl homepage. Growl provides notifications, which “… are a way for your applications to provide you with new information, without you having to switch from the application you’re already in.”