October 2007
10.5: Save time when assigning programs to Spaces
After you’ve assigned an app to one of your spaces, and you select it in the Application Assignments list, the space it resides in becomes highlighted in the graphical representation above the list. The highlight moves to whichever space you assign in the list, and it will change as you move between applications in the list. When you are setting up your spaces and you want to assign several...
Disqus Officially Launches
Disqus, the 2-person, YCombinator-funded, San Francisco-based startup I’ve written about before, has just opened up it doors to everyone. Disqus adds spice to blog comments with innovative comment display techniques including threading and comment rating but goes further than that by mirroring blog comments on a fully functional forum. I had the chance to speak with Disqus developer Daniel Ha...
Smoked Glass Dock for Leopard - Much Nicer!
By simply replacing 4 files you can completely alter how the dock looks. Try out this dark dock, it’s much nicer. (via News dugg by elifoner)
Banksy: Caught In The Act And Unmasked?
New photos purport to show infamous graffiti artist Banksy as he creates a new mural in London. The artist’s identity has remained a mystery despite his work fetching thousands of dollars at auction. Could this finally be him? (via News dugg by elifoner)
Top Ten Leopard Tips
Guy Kawasaki breaks down 10 Leopard tips. Some of them include: Opt out (not in) for additional fonts, back up first, and reconsider spotlight. (via News dugg by elifoner)
10.5: Easily change the location of your home...
Unfortunately, the procedure for moving a user folder, or all user folders, to an alternate volume under Tiger and earlier no longer works in Leopard; that procedure used NetInfo, and NetInfo has been replaced in Leopard by Directory Services. But for the most basic task — moving a user folder — Apple has made the process much easier in Leopard.
First, copy your home directory to the...
10.5: Easily create iCal and Address Book entries...
If there is a date and/or time in a message in Mail, you can simply hover your mouse over that day and/or time to produce a pull-down menu that lets you create an iCal event with that date and time. It seems to smartly title the event as well. You just simply hit the create event after any tweaking you may want to do, and voila, you have a new calendar entry.
Also, if a message contains a street...
Automatically translate RSS feeds with Google...
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google
Ever wish you could RSS feeds in German, Russian, and Japanese without taking the time to learn those languages? Sure, you could just visit your favorite Chinese websites every day using a web page translation service. But Download Squad Reader Patrick Hornik turned us on to a much better method. Google Reader Translate is a Firefox add-on that adds...
Plentyoffish: 1-Man Company May Be Worth $1Billion
We’ve written before about PlentyOfFish, a leading online dating site that is run by a single person and is raking in money. Markus Frind is the singular force behind PlentyOfFish. At the time of our last review, June 2006, PlentyOfFish was earning $10,000 per day from Google Adsense (around $3.5 M per annum). I caught up with Markus today via (via News dugg by elifoner)
Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition Offer
Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, has rejected a $200 million acquisition offer, say multiple sources. Half the price was to be paid in cash, half in stock in the buyer.
The company, which has raised just $1.1 million in capital, has been on a tear lately. They acquired avatar startup Gravatar earlier this...
10.5: Spaces activation made simpler
Hey guys this is a simple one but should be noted since it makes using Spaces even easier…in the Expose/Spaces prefs panel, assign one of your screen corners to Spaces. This will allow you to easily see the Spaces screen overview as if you opened the Spaces app or hit the F-key. I personally think it’s faster than either one of those methods as well. [robg adds: I’ll always pick...
10.5: Set the Time Machine backup interval
If you think Time Machine backs up too often (or not often enough) for your liking, navigate into /System » Library » LaunchDaemons. There you’ll find a file named com.apple.backupd-auto.plist. Open it in your favorite text editor, and look for this section: <key>StartInterval</key> <integer>3600</integer>Change the 3600 number to some other time interval...
The ONLY Black iPhone in the World!
Dutch hacker Mark Hoekstra (of Slurpr & iNoPhone fame) takes a cracked iPhone and painstakingly reassembles it into a Black iPhone with a full color (old Apple Newton) Apple logo. The only one of its kind, a work of art! I want one too! (via News dugg by elifoner)
Google prepping Gmail 2.0
Filed under: E-mail, Google
It might be a good idea to scrutinize your Gmail account more closely than usual these days. Not only is Google in the process of rolling out IMAP support, but it looks like some users are able to access a new version of Gmail. If you notice a new option that says “older version” or “newer version” at the upper right-hand corner, you’re...
The World’s Fastest Windows Vista Notebook
Rhymes with “back look fro”.
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A list of thirty illnesses, sorted according to...
A list of thirty illnesses, sorted according to whether or not you can eat the victims. Oh McSweeney’s lists, we’ve been parted too long. (link)
Hilarious interview with a pair of flair...
Hilarious interview with a pair of flair bartenders. So what is flair bartending? A lot of people don’t know what it is. They think we’re just bottle flippers. There’s a bar here called Front Page, and they have a channel with extreme sports-snowboarding and a couple of other sports. And I think flair actually falls into the same category. You can get hurt really badly. Like I...
Project Orcon was a WWII-era effort to find a...
Project Orcon was a WWII-era effort to find a non-jammable guidance system for missiles; pigeons were one of the things they tried. Loaded into a missile, the pigeons were to tap on the image of the target to correct the missile’s trajectory. Trainee pigeons were started out in the primary trainer pecking at slowly moving targets. They were rewarded with corn for each hit and quickly learned...
10.5: Change the Dock's background and separator
I know a lot of you are not a fan of the 3D dock, however I love it. One thing that was bugging me was that little curve that was in it. It seemed so unnecessary and I felt made the dock look a little too busy. In trying to see if I could remove it, I found out that whole background is one PNG image.
The image is found here: /System » Library » CoreServices » Dock. Control-clik...
Pretty amusing interview with a 9-year-old about...
Pretty amusing interview with a 9-year-old about music, file sharing, and DRM. Q: When you started using LimeWire, did anyone ever mention that if you did certain things you might be breaking some laws? A: Why would they put [music] on the internet and invent mp3 players if it was against the law? (thx, mark) (link)
Serial Jailbreaker Escapes for Fourth Time
A Belgian inmate made a dramatic escape from jail for the fourth time Sunday evening after his armed accomplices landed in the prison grounds in a hijacked helicopter, prosecutors said Monday. Nordin Benallal has previously run from a prison van, walked out of jail wearing a wig and sunglasses and scaled a prison wall with a rope ladder. (via News dugg by elifoner)
Spaces
When the first details of Leopard sprung onto the scene at WWDC 2006, Spaces was something which caught the eye for a second, and immediately disappeared from my mind. Even over the past few weeks when the official feature list was posted on Apple’s website and Spaces was featured as one of the main components to the operating system, I still glanced over it - thinking it wouldn’t change the way...
John Siracusa’s Mac OS X 10.5 Review
Six major releases of Mac OS X. Six times, the same guy has written the best review.
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Displaperture 1.0
Peter Maurer’s freeware (donations accepted) utility to restore round screen corners in Leopard. (Worth noting that while round corners are gone in Leopard, they’re there on the iPhone.)
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Ferrari FXX Evoluzione with 816 HP revealed, and...
The top dog of Ferraris, the FXX Evoluzione packs 816 HP and a list of extremely exclusive owners. You can’t own one, as they’re already sold out before ever being built, and Ferrari reserves the right to choose buyers since these cars are for the track only and technically used by Ferrari as development cars. (via News dugg by elifoner)
Yet again, another iChat filter recreated:...
Again from MacRumors, too… (via News dugg by elifoner)
Leopard Migration: How It Went Down
Typing this post within the brand new and still shiny Leopard environment, I’m now completely setup and running with the new evolutionary operating system from Apple - OSX 10.5 Leopard. Leopard turned up two days earlier than I had expected - landing on my doorstep on Saturday afternoon along with a few other goodies. I’d seen many photos of the Leopard software packaging on Flickr in the days...
Replace the Leopard's login screen background!!...
Simply replace this file:/System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg (via News dugg by elifoner)
Buying Leopard In The Dark
Los Gatos Apple Store In The Dark: 1/160s f/1.8 ISO1600 50mm, Canon 30D, EF 50mm f/1.8, adjusted Buying Leopard at the Los Gatos Apple store yesterday was not quite the smooth experience I had been expecting. I arrived about 45 minutes before the opening and found about 50 people in line. By 6pm there were a couple of hundred waiting, and the doors were flung open. Lots of cheering,...
Aperture and Leopard's Time Machine WARNING
Bill Cheeseman brought up what looks like a potential problem that all Aperture users wanting to use the Time Machine feature in Leopard should be aware of. I don’t think any of us want to take any chances with our libraries. I wondered how Time Machine might work with managed Aperture Libraries, using Vaults to back up. I think much more on this will come to light in the next few days and weeks...
Leopard Hacked! Install Leopard on your PC
Well its been only a day since the Mac OSX Leopard was released officially by Apple and the hackers have managed to create a patched DVD that everyone like you and me can use to install Leopard on PC’s without having to buy a Mac. (via News dugg by elifoner)
Dolphin CSS Menu
Neat customizable CSS menu for download by 13styles. Also comes with the PSD for skinning.
Aperture and Leopard
Leopard has some great new features for digital photographers. For example, QuickLook is an exceptional way to get a quick view of an image file in the Finder. Meanwhile, CoverFlow, a feature that I thought was a stupid thing to add to the Finder, since I’ve never found it useful in iTunes, turns out to be a great way to flip through a folder full of images. I’m sure we’ll all be finding many new...
100 Awesome Photoshop Brushes
Aperture 1.5.6
Filed under: Software Update, Apple Attention Aperture, there is a new version out. Apple just just released Aperture 1.5.6 which: Resolves some issues with iPhoto 7.1
Solves some issues with metadata and sort ordering in the iLife Media Browser
Improves reliability
It also makes Aperture compatible with Leopard. Thanks, Brian. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Wallstrip interviews Fake Steve Jobs
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Steve Jobs Those stock obsessed folks at Wallstrip, the daily video blog about all things Wall Street, have posted a short interview with the man behind Fake Steve Jobs. If you don’t want the illusion of FSJ to be shattered you shouldn’t watch this video, but it is very entertaining. You’ll find out why FSJ started blogging, what he thinks...
24 Hours of Leopard: "Alex," the new voice of Mac...
Filed under: LeopardFeature: Alex, the new voice of Mac OS X How it works: Voice synthesis on the Mac has been around for more than 20 years now, but outside of screenreading and special applications it’s never been a marquee feature (that is, if you don’t count Talking Moose — now once again available for OS X. Woot!). Even though the Macintalk and Speech Manager voices have...
Domainer Giveaway Winners
A week ago, I reviewed Domainer, the new Domain information manager app from Rage Software. I thought maybe a tool of this nature would only appeal to a small group of users but there was some lively discussion. As I mentioned in that article Rage kindly offered to give away 5 licenses to lucky MacApper readers that could suggest killer features to be added to Domainer. I have to say there were...
100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
High Quality Photoshop Brushes… (via News dugg by elifoner)
Changing the Game - Gmail Gets IMAP
If you’re anything like me, for the past few days you’ve been checking the settings page of your Gmail/Google Apps Gmail account hoping to see an IMAP settings page. Google is slowly rolling out free IMAP access to all Gmail accounts. This is huge. IMAP support has generally been ignored by free email providers for the extra server resources and bandwidth required by IMAP access. The IMAP protocol...
Little Snitch 2 Beta8: Taking it to a Whole New... →
Newest beta of Little Snitch 2, with much-improved GUI and many new features.
Little Snitch 2 Beta8: Taking it to a Whole New... →
Newest beta of Little Snitch 2, with much-improved GUI and many new features.
How-to: Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone & Apple... →
In order to ensure your Trashed, Sent, Drafts, and Junk mail messages are synced properly among your iPhone, Apple Mail, and Gmailâs webmail interface, you will need to add a few more steps to the initial setup instructions offered by Google.
How-to: Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone & Apple... →
In order to ensure your Trashed, Sent, Drafts, and Junk mail messages are synced properly among your iPhone, Apple Mail, and Gmailâs webmail interface, you will need to add a few more steps to the initial setup instructions offered by Google.
Leopard Migration Plans
My copy of Mac OSX Leopard left Sydney on route to Auckland, New Zealand as of last night. I’m not expecting it to turn up until Monday morning due to living at a rural delivery address in New Zealand, though if I could order Leopard again, I’d have it sent to a friends place in town and make the twenty minute journey in to pick it up this afternoon. However, I can’t go back - so I have the...
Little Snitch 2 Beta8: Taking it to a Whole New...
I’m sure a lot of you are familiar with Little Snitch: it’s a popular network filter from Objective Development, who, incidentally, are the people behind LaunchBar. For those who don’t know: Little Snitch lets you know whenever an application or process wants to connect to the Internet and what server and port they want to connect to.
Once it catches these sneaky little programs, you can then...
How-to: Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone & Apple...
The latest news on the street is that Google is slowly rolling out a much anticipated feature - IMAP support. If you point your browser to Gmail Help documentation outlining the steps necessary to get your mail clients setup for IMAP, you’ll soon realize the the directions are the bare minimum. It is recommended that you follow the directions from start to finish, but the actual configuration does...
How-to: Properly setup Gmail IMAP for the iPhone &...
Following the recommended settings provided by Gmail will get you basic IMAP support, but the settings will not sync your Sent Mail, Drafts, Trash, or Junk properly. Here are the basic settings to ensure that your email clients don’t create unnecessary Gmail labels during synchronization. (via News dugg by elifoner)
dfMarine Wordpress Theme
This is one of our new simple Wordpress theme. We just named it Marine because its something in blue. Hope you enjoy this theme.
Info: These themes are not widget ready, any new addition to the sidebar has to be done on sidebar.php in the theme. Also comes with a small ad unit of ours… you can replace or remove it from index.php (leave it alone if you wish to support us…)
Installation
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