random tidbits

The long name in Accounts and "Me" name in your Address Book should take care of it. Applications should be pulling their data from the Address Book, but I think some use Accounts, so it's good to change that too.

The Macbook I bought earlier this year had gotten pretty slow. Its my first Apple computer and I've been playing around on it quite a bit. Installed, uninstalled lots of junk. The Macbook had started getting slow, but I decided to upgrade it to Snow Leopard.

Big mistake.

Firefox and Safari would take almost 10 seconds to start up. After spending a night backing up everything, I reinstalled OS X from scratch, wiping the hard drive.

Wow. Can definitely feel the speed difference.

During the registration, I put in some junk data for my name and address, planning on coming back and fixing it. When I installed Adium, it would displayed a name on the title bar. It was the name that I had entered when registering.

Ugh.

Googling, a lot of people were asking how to change the short name or machine name. The short name is tricky to change. The machine name can be changed in the System Preferences >> Sharing >> Computer Name. But thats still not what I was looking for. I wanted to change the registration name.

After some more googling, I found the answer in the MacNN forums. Open up the Address Book, select All Contacts, name of user (there is Apple Inc. and whatever you registered as), click the Edit button. Make the changes and you are done.