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Nothing concentrates the mind, the saying goes, like the prospect of being executed in the morning. When you only have a few hours left, you want to make them count.

But substitute space for time, and give people a 160-character limit on summing up their life's story (or even just the past 525,600 minutes), and they start adding the oddest things.

Continued from Part 1: Why to Mac-ify

Here's how Mike told me to test whether I could get the netbook to run the Mac OS:

1. Format an external hard drive and attach it to your Mac.Insert the Mac OS Snow Leopard Installation CD into your Mac.
2. Launch the Snow Leopard installer; select the external hard drive as the destination for your installation.

If you're new to Twitter, you want to quickly eliminate the five sure signs you're a Twitter newbie:

1. An empty user account with no tweets (see part 1 of our quickstart guide for 21 tweets that can help you avoid that fate!)
2. Following fewer than 20 people (Oprah, please take note!)
3. Having fewer than 30 people following you (Oprah, your 472,000 followers have got you covered on that one.)
4. Updating less than twice a week
5. Letting your feed peter out after an initial flurry of posts

Here are some quick ways you can follow people, attract followers, and keep your feed regularly updated -- all in less than five minutes a week. You read that right: five minutes!