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While I don't use one of these myself (wireless logitech all the way baby!), I do know a number of folks who love their Mighty Mouse (Mighty Mice?), foibles and all. As such, I offer this piece from macsupport.ca detailing how you can address one of the more annoying "features" of your keyboard's best friend.

A problem that seems to plague more than a few Mighty Mouse users is that the Scroll Ball seems to stop scrolling. After nearly resigning myself to buying a replacement mouse, I discovered that the flaky Scroll Ball is actually a fairly common problem, though the suggested fixes I have found seem to range from the simple to the bizarre. I’ve tried most of these fixes and found one which works most reliably.

For the iTunes playlist challenged among you (alright I'll count myself as well), Andy Budd has a nice article on getting the most from your music by really putting the Smart Playlist feature to work.

One of the problems with this is keeping your music collection interesting. You’ll want to hear newer songs more often than older ones, yet at the same time you’ll want to make sure that the old music doesn’t get lost. You want to hear your favourite songs slightly more often than everything else, but you don’t want to keep listening to the same old tracks over and over again. As such you need to make sure your playlists have a good degree of variety as well as and a high churn rate. The way to achieve this is by utilising smart playlists, however it can be quite difficult getting the right balance.

I've personally tried a number of ways to control the volumes of music that I seem to have acquired. However, none have really hit the sweet spot. Andy's system is certainly one of the most controlled ways of reigning in your wayward collection. If your music is getting out of control you might give Andy's system a try.

For those of you who don't quite get what all the hubbub is about RSS, the folks over at blogcritics.org have a really nice intro to RSS that does a much better job of explaining the concept than I have seen to date. I've even struggled myself to explain the ins and outs of RSS and its value to the average web user.

Chances are, you're not entirely sure what the point of RSS is. I saw that little orange icon in Firefox, I've also seen their "live bookmarks" feature, which just looks cumbersome, and just never thought it could be helpful to me. Now, I wouldn't live without it. Here's why.

This one's for all you "Switchers" looking to make a smoother transition to OS X. Over at Switch they've posted a great tip for holding on to your beloved XP keyboard commands just a bit longer.

One of the things I expected to have to get used to in OS X is the different key combinations to manipulate text. I've gotten so used to how this works in Windows that it's almost Zen-like, but I promised myself that I'd give the Mac-way sufficient time to sink in. However, now that I know that the default key bindings can be changed, this is going to be very difficult to resist.

The folks over at Mac Geekery have a great article on how to remotely erase data on your laptop should it be stolen.

I set up a periodic that checks for a file on my webserver called youve_been_stolen. My PowerBook's periodic gets that URL and, if found, runs a script that runs rm -rf against a smattering of directories and pops an AppleScript informing the new "owner" that they are using stolen hardware.

It's a bit heady, but then what would expect from a site like Mac Geekery. Nevertheless, it's a great project that could save your butt some day.

Remote Destruction of Data [Mac Geekery]