I use Papers to search, download, and organize journal articles. After downloading articles, I read them, take notes, then export them into an EndNote XML file that can be later imported into my EndNote library. By doing this, I can take advantage of EndNote’s “Cite While You Write” function and let it automatically generate references in APA style (or any other style I have to work with).

It sounds like a great workflow. However, there is a glitch: the default way in which the Papers’s EndNote Exporter processes author names would output their first names as initials. That is, Jane Doe would be imported as “Doe, J.” instead of “Doe, Jane.” This would cause a disaster if you have multiple articles authored by people sharing the same last names and first name initials: EndNote would treat them as the same person and their works would be mixed up.

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Apple lists 10 reasons why people should switch to Mac. What’s your first impression with a Mac if you’ve never got the chance to put your hands on it? A powerful eye candy that never crashes? A guy named Russell Beattie stands out to tell you no. He came up with 33 reasons to switch back and the comment aroused an interesting debate. If you are thinking of joining the Mac world, read through the post and face the fact: Mac is not perfect. Actually it’s still far from being perfect.
My own experience with Mac fails to support the hype that Mac never crashes. Yes it does. And the worse thing is my only solution is to press the power button long enough to shut it down manually. The other reason keeping me from totally switching to Mac is its poor support for SPSS, the statistical package I live on. I can’t blame Apple since SPSS inc. should be responsible for that too. But no matter what, SPSS is hardly usable on Mac. That parly explains why my iBook serves like a 12-inch-screen iPod now.