Vance Tran - Graphic & Web Design

I’ve been using Parallels to run Windows on my Mac for a while now to test out my websites under Internet Explorer 6 and 7 – super handy. A very annoying artifact of Parallels, however, is that Windows applications show up in Spotlight, which I use frequently to launch Mac apps.

Here’s a quick tip to get them out of there. Go to your System Preferences under the  (Apple) menu and click on Spotlight. Go to the Privacy tab and drag and drop in the Home/Documents/Parallels folder. Tada – no more Windows apps cluttering your Spotlight searches.

Alright…. So, I haven’t exactly held fast to my resolutions, but I do feel that they have helped to shape my daily behavior. I cook, read, and blog way more than I have in the past few years. Overall, I’m glad that I set some goals and targets. Next thing I need to tackle is making more of those vector graphics.