I use Boot Camp on my Mac, and quite often I create files in Windows and want those files on the OS X side as well. It’s a pain to take out a USB flash drive and copy the files there, reboot, and copy them again. If the files are large, emailing the files to yourself may not work either.

One solution is Dropbox. As Dropbox works on OS X, Windows, and Linux, all you have to do is install Dropbox on your Boot Camp Windows installation, then drop or save any files in theree; they will automatically transfer into OS X the next time you boot back into the Mac OS.

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There are a variety of enhancements and refinements introduced in Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, which Apple announced will be available this Friday (August 28). The Mac is generally viewed as a consumer or niche platform, but some of the features in Snow Leopard show a maturity that makes the Mac better than ever for the enterprise.

1. Annotations in Preview. New tools enable you to annotate and markup PDF files using Preview. The annotation tools include comments, links, highlighting, strikethrough text, shapes, text, and arrows.

2. Restore deleted items to original locations. This seems long overdue. In Windows data restored from the Recycle Bin is automatically restored to its original location. With Snow Leopard restoring to the original location is now an option on the Mac as well.

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In a cross-platform world, it pays to be able to run Windows on your Mac. While you can’t do this completely for free — you’ll have to shell out for a licensed copy of Windows — you don’t have to pay for the Mac software that runs Windows.

Boot Camp
Apple’s Boot Camp is dual-boot software that’s included with today’s Intel-based Macs. Boot Camp allows users to partition their hard drives into separate Mac and Windows volumes and install Windows XP or Vista. The catch is that you can’t run Mac OS X and Windows simultaneously.

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As flexible as Mac OS X’s Dock can be, one feature request that’s been around as long as OS X itself is the capability to have multiple Dock configurations and to easily switch between them. For example, as a tech writer, I often need to take screenshots, and I want those screenshots to include OS X’s stock Dock—my Dock looks nothing like the stock version. Or you may want different Dock configurations for different groups of tasks.

Over the years, I’ve covered a number of utilities that provide this functionality, but my new favorite is Thoughtful Tree Software’s aptly named Docks, mainly because of its ease of use and its clear and attractive interface.

The first time you launch Docks, you take a snapshot of your current Dock and give it a name. Next you customize the Dock for another task—for example, for media consumption, or for writing, or for Internet activities—and take another snapshot. You repeat this process as many times as you need different Dock configurations. (Note that programs currently running that aren’t permanently in the Dock aren’t captured as part of a snapshot.)

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There’s been talk the past couple of days that the latest developer build of OS X Snow Leopard, 10A432, has been designated the “Golden Master” version, meaning it’s ready for prime time. Multiple sources are now stating it is. So now the question is: When will it be released?

Amazon put Snow Leopard up for pre-order a few weeks ago with the following note: “Please note: Official release date has not been announced by Apple, though they have indicated this product will be released sometime in September.” September is also the timetable that Apple gave at its WWDC event in early June. But with the GM version already out there, there are whispers that Apple may have beaten that goal. Friday, August 28 is the day Daring Fireball’s John Gruber is hearing, and he has a very good track record of being right about such things.

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