"Ferman said her office is 'looking to see whether there are potential violations of Pennsylvania criminal laws'" ...there better f*%king be?

Glad to help.

I believe you're running into a "feature" that's causing some confusion. If you manually change a document's open with application it segregates itself from the pool of documents that change when you hit "change all" on other documents. In case it's 12:30 and I'm not making sense I'll give an example...

You have a.tif, b.tif, and c.tif. The default program for opening .tif files is Preview and all three files in question are opening with the default. You change a.tif to open with Photoshop. You then change b.tif to open with Firefox and hit the "change all" button. You'd then be left with b and c.tif opening in Firefox, and a.tif opening in Photoshop because you changed it manually from the default. At some point in the future hitting change all on a.tif will both return it to the default pool along with b and c and change the default .tif program to whatever a.tif is set to at that moment.

I think for one reason or another these avi files think they're all out of the pool. You can change the files already on your drive to use the default quickly by using the Find command to find all files ending in .avi on the computer, then hitting select all and then command-option-i to bring up the inspector. Then change them to open with the program of your choice and hit change all.

Hope this helps, works, makes sense, and wasn't too wordy (I don't know how well you know your way around the MacOS so I explained a bit more than usual).

No, you're a 12 year old homophobe playing Gears of War and watching Harry Potter movies.

That's much better.

To always open a particular file type with a particular program you...

For example:

1) Select any .avi file in the Finder
2) Get info
3) Change the "Open with:" program and hit the "Change All..." button

Same thing with any other file type.

I don't want to be trollish or a dick or anything...but that doesn't make any sense. Grand Central Dispatch's purpose is to provide a unified and efficient way to write multithreaded programs for OSX. I'm not sure why they would develop that for Windows. That's more of Microsoft's core OS division's job, not Apple's.

I've never personally heard of Google doing anything with people's data that I'd mind terribly.

Most notably I use their email service, I'll use my Wave account if and when it becomes particularly useful, and I just might use their DNS server because I am pretty tired of my ISP's slow responses. So if they decided to at some point they could do some serious damage to my privacy.

But up to this point they've only provided services that I find useful and generally superior to other free alternatives and have only asked for statistics and a reasonable amount of screen real estate for ads. I'm definitely not one to trust a company with too much information, but so far that's perfectly acceptable to me.

If someone can give me a good, currently applicable, practical reason to, though, I'll avoid their DNS like the plague.

"...Air Cars" is an amazingly deceptive headline :(

Plus, you know, we're talking about tools. I don't care if Sears lets me buy molds so that I can forge my own hammer and bolt on my own handmade handle. If one of SnapOn's models has a sweet Hello Kitty handle that suits my needs I'll buy it from SnapOn even though they ultimately give me less choice in the matter.

Same with Apple. They may not let you choose your case or main board or the make of your ram, but they give you a box that works at a fair price (by OEM standards).

And I doubt they'll ever totally dominate the computer market, pushing out all competition and forging a one configuration world where we all pay $1499.99 for their Mac XIIs, so-named because it's the twelfth model to come out since the Great Amalgamation. It's not Wrong to be closed, just different.