Soroush Javidi

I know that one would never ever dream of migrating from a Mac to Windows, but recently I was asked to help someone move all emails and contacts in Entourage on Mac OS X to Outlook on Windows XP. I didn't think it would be too hard a job! I mean, they are both Microsoft products, right?! Click export here, click import there! Nope! Let me first explain what happens when you do it the obvious way, and then I'll give the not so obvious way that works. So, if you go to

Now this might not be the most important thing ever, but, I think it's very handy! Say you type a search string, e.g. "Threadless t shirt", in Firefox's Search bar, and hit enter. You find what you want and browse for a while, till you need to search again. Now if you're the sort of person who clicks inside the Search bar (like me), then you will have to delete whatever you put in last time before typing a different query. Now life would be a tiny tiny bit easier if that search string would get cleared automatically whenever we did a search!