moving from windows to os x. Several people I know have recently given up on Windows and have moved to the Mac - specifically OS X. In general most of these folks came from the world of Linux/Windows dual boot machines and the move was straightforward... [tingilinde] 
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Sherlock gathering dust?. O'Reilly Network: Creating Sherlock Channels [Mar. 25, 2003] (via Google Search: sherlock channels):

...with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, Sherlock is completely overhauled both internally and externally and becomes Sherlock 3. For the first time, Sherlock developers are able to create complete user interfaces that take full advantage of Aqua and Mac OS X. With the increased power also comes new challenges when developing channels: there was a dearth of documentation to help developers create a channel from start to finish. That is, until now.

I was looking for (and found) info on bookmarklets in Safari so I could add a little linkblogging tool to my aggregator. There, I saw Sherlock URLs and realized that the last time I even opened the app was almost 2 years ago. Seems like there's some pretty neat tools here for querying XML-based information on the web using a native OS X UI. Yet I still like my browser best for this sort of thing. But it seems like there's a lot of potential in Sherlock, and a lot of power for developers. Is anyone giving it much attention? [0xDECAFBAD] 
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Journalling on OS X disks.

Journaling allows the system to recover more easily from crashes and protect against corruption by having a "journal" (a buffer where changes are first made and then afterwards written to disk) and makes recoveries much faster when using tools like fsck.

To enable journaling on OS X Client, use the Terminal command:

% sudo diskutil enableJournal /Source:

macosxhints – Enable a journaling file system on OS X 10.2.2 Client