* Hints about sound levels: There are two volume-level hints that I really like. The first is an odd, but definitely not-a-bug, behavior of the Mute key on your keyboard: you can use it to --something above Mute but below the first bar of the onscreen slider showing volume levels. Speaking of the onscreen slider, you can , instead of one full block at a time.

That's ten of my favorite older hints blogs, all of which should still work fine in 10.5 and 10.6. And with that, I'm officially handing the reins of the Mac OS X Hints blog over to Macworld. For now, there will probably be an assortment of guest editors writing the entries until someone is hired to fill my spot.

I've had an amazing five years here at Macworld, and I wouldn't trade my experiences for anything. With any luck, you'll still see my name around these parts on occasion, just not with the same regularity, and not here in the land of hints.