As incredible as this may sound, one day I found myself thinking. There are, after all, twenty-four hours in a day, and once I wake up I do have a good three, maybe four hours to kill. So between the time m'stories come on and the daily dates I keep with the Honorable Judges Judy/Larry Joe/Mablean/Joe Brown/Mathis/Hatchette, I do try to fire up the old noodle every once in a while in a mostly futile attempt to come up some intriguing stuff for you, the valued reader. On one such occasion recently, while the Hormel Chili (no beans) was slowly bubbling its crimson, nitrate-y goodness on the stove, I got to thinking about QuickTime.

Boy, who'da thunk that it would have taken Equilibrium four-plus years to wake up from it's Windows-first (and seemingly, Windows-only) honeymoon and finally release a new version of DeBabelizer for the Mac? Hard to believe, but since DeBabelizer 3 was released in 1998, Mac users have received nary a whiff of where the once Mac-exclusive image processing powerhouse ran off to. Well, DeBabelizer is back for the Mac and better than ever. It's been given a Carbon injection to run natively on Mac OS X, had the "Pro" moniker added to its name, and brought up to version parity with its Windows counterpart, even if Equilibrium had to take the rather Netscapian measure of completely skipping a version number in order to do so.

In part one of this tutorial, Dave Nagel introduced you to the magical world of Jaguar's native Windows file sharing, for those of us that are forced to interact with one (or, heaven forbid, more than one) Windows machine(s) on a daily basis. For many, that's as much or more than you'll ever need in order to make your beloved Mac a good corporate citizen, but for those who demand a few more options than Uncle Steve decided to include by default, don't fret. With the help of some freeware, you can easily set a bunch of hidden settings to truly make your Mac just another faceless node in the vast machine of Windows boxen on your network. That is, if you're into that sort of thing.