If you are on Mac OS and have ever tried to empty out your time machine backup disk, you’ve no doubt run into this issue. Emptying the trash, when you have just deleted a 100,000+ files will take hours…literally. Fortunately, there are solutions.

1. Try the command line:
Open up Terminal.app and go to the trash folder that you want to empty:
cd /Volumes/<name of your drive>/.Trash/
rm -rf <directory you want to delete> (usually its 501)

2. Delete backups from within Time Machine to empty out space:
Fire up Time Machine. By default, you should be in the current time (now). In the Finder window that open’s up, there’s a small gear icon. Click it and select the option “Delete old backup’s for xxxxxx”. Easiest way to free up space!

Each pulsating icon (yes, those are thousands of little icons on large 30″ cinema displays) represents an app purchase on the app store. Not in real time but way cool nevertheless…observe….and be mesmerized.

Apple has spoken folks and generally when Apple speaks, everyone listens. Placing an SD card slot into the new MacBook Pro is a signal of things to come but the question is what are these “things”? Most people, including me, were left scratching our collective heads when we heard of the new SD slot. Could photography and that particular segment be so important for Apple to include a SD card slot?

Granted that SD card offer a lot more variety than just storage but I think that the real reason for the inclusion is to create differentiation in the laptop product line. Notice that the earlier Macbook got bumped up to a macbook pro category leaving w.i.d.e open spaces in the traditional macbook category for new entrants. Could these new entrants be a Apple Netbook or the ever so elusive Apple tablet? I certainly hope so!