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SideTrack is a replacement driver for the trackpad (touchpad) found on Apple PowerBooks and iBooks. It brings many of the advanced trackpad features found on Windows laptops to MacOS X.
I have been using SideTrack because I miss this trackpad feature in a Sony Vaio Z-series I briefly owned. The 17" Powerbook has a pretty large trackpad which makes SideTrack an essential application.
Ever wanted to monitor 1src.com discussions and events easily? Try Opera's built-in RSS reader.
Each Forum group has its own RSS feed. Just copy the feed address you want and use Opera's built-in newsreader to monitor your favorite Forum group.
That's... right click on the sidebar, choose newsfeed, click new. Give it a Name, put in the RSS Address, set the Update level, click OK. Your new newsfeed in now in the sidebar. Leave Opera open and watch as it automatically updates the feed. Enjoy!
From Mozillazine:
Mozilla.org today released upgrades to both Firefox 0.9 (0.9.1) and Thunderbird 0.7 (0.7.1) to fix some minor bugs present in both releases. Both releases correct some flaws in the Extension System that some users may have been experiencing, as well as a new icon set for the navigation toolbar on Windows and Linux in Firefox 0.9.1. All users of both products should get this upgrade. Builds are available for Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1, as well as updated release notes (Fx, Tb) for both.
Great news! I have experienced problems with Firefox but will now upgrade to see the improvement. I'll now try Thunderbird to see how it performs. Mail seems to be the best email program for me, but Thunderbird has been shaping out well.
Have you visited konfabulator's homepage lately?
I don't know but I began to hate Konfabulator even more when I saw this:
"Cupertino, start your photocopiers!
Why wait 'till "first half of 2005" when you
can get the original Dashboard now?"
(No links. They do not deserve a link.)
Whew! With NetNewsWire Lite running in the background and set to check for news every 30 minutes, I can safely say that I'm now up-to-date with news.
My posting speed is now up to par as that when Cliesource was still up. In fact, I guess I'm posting more often. 1src may not be as often visited now but once people start looking around the site, they'll be up to date with which applications and accessories are worth looking into.
Just woke up and went straight to apple.com. The new displays are impressive ... they're impressive in a-company-can-only-afford-it kind of way. 30, 23, 20 inch displays are going to be available soon starting at $1299.
MacRumors probably gets the credit for posting the Dashboard screenshot first. Since it's now confirmed, my feeling stays the same... those things are desktop clutter. Well, you can flip them for the controls and it's nice to show them off to PC people but you won't see me use those in the long run. Like Konfabulator, the Dashboard will be fun to play with for the a few days then after that will always be Exposé'd off the screen permanently.
Here are the Keynote highlights as posted by MacMinute:
o Video in Tiger's iChat will be based on H.264 for better quality
o New iChat to allow video/audio conferencing with multiple people
o "Automater" is a visual scriptng application for repetitive tasks
o Tiger will feature "Dashboard" -- "Exposé for Widgets." (like Konfabulator)
o Tiger will include much tighter .Mac integration
o New "Core Image" graphics technology coming in Tiger
o New version of Safari to include RSS newsfeed support
o H.264 MPEG video standard to be part of Tiger
o Major OS search upgrade called "Spotlight" allows powerful searching
o Tiger will offer full 64-bit processing, over 150 new features
o Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger will ship in first half of 2005
o More than 12 million OS X users; over 12,000 apps
o Jobs moves on to Mac OS X
o 30-inch model ($3,299) requires Power Mac G5 with $599 Nvidia card
o 20-inch model costs $1,299, 23-inch model costs $1,999
o FireWire and USB on new displays; require DVI instead of ADC
o New models feature one piece aluminum stand
o New 20, 23 & 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays
o Jobs gives overview of iTunes, iPod, AirPort Express, Power Mac G5
o 3,500 developers at this year's conference (17% increase over 2003)
On and off during the day, I've been playing around with the Switchblog template. It's quite frustrating at times since I was trying to understand how MovableType works but I'm pretty happy with the results. It's by no means final as I'm still trying to understand how everything blends together.
Earlier, I couldn't help but laugh when I was "div'ed." The DIV tag, when used improperly, is something not too friendly with Opera -- and I actually forgot all about that! Many more advanced web developers forget about the global DIV CENTER ... if one's not careful and there's no TABLE ALIGN CENTER within tables, the entire content will be globally centered. The DIV error only happens in Opera and I always treat it as a wake-up call to be more responsible with my coding. No coding is ever complete if not previewed within the Opera browser.
I've also decided to forego using my handwriting font for the meantime. I've realized that though my font looks great in OS X, it's quite unreadable in Windows.
The tools I've been using were Dreamweaver, Photoshop Elements 2, different browsers, and good old Text Edit.
There's this small freeware app that connects my SE T610 to my Powerbook. It's called BluePhoneMenu.
An icon sits on the menu bar and polls for a Bluetooth connection to my phone every 20 seconds (which is configurable). When a new call or text message comes in, a window appears and you can answer the phone, or reply to a text message. (Answering the phone requires you to have your phone beside you but for heavy incoming calls, I suggest a Bluetooth headset.)
Replying to a text message is faster with the Powerbook's keyboard. You are now no longer limited to the fast but truncated method offered by a cellphone. Of course, you would have to watch out for the usually 160 character limit.
The SMS Browser lets you view the text messages stored in your Internal memory and Sim Card. It follows the # of message/total format. At a glance, I know that I have a 70 message limit in the Internal memory and a 30 message limit in my sim. Messages can be viewed and deleted in here but cannot be moved from one memory bank to another, yet.
Clicking on the menu bar icon shows you the signal and battery strength of the phones configured. Going into the Preferences menu allows you configure the different Phones, Caller ID, Alerts, Font, and Miscellaneous features. These features allow you to fine tune how you want to use BluePhoneMenu.
BluePhoneMenu is heavily developed. For example, just last night, I had v1.2.11 but found out this morning that 1.2.12 is already available. The current version is the fastest version I've used so far and I'm highly impressed!
Here's what to expect in the future:
• Battery and signal icons in the menu bar
• Extended SMS support
• Modify phone options (silent mode, call forwarding, etc...) from the menu
• More AppleScript triggers based on calls, SMSs, and phone range/activity
• Call length tracking and on-screen volume control
• XML log file and possibly iChat integration
I've been devouring a lot of new stuff from A List Apart, thanks to the RSS reader: Ranchero's NetNewsWire Lite.
What is ALA? "A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards."
Switchblog will be my test bed for the stuff I've learned. So expect some layout changes after this weekend.
There were these tiny black ants who found their way inside our microwave oven. "Time to die, ants!" I said as I popped in a sausage to cook it for 30 seconds.
When I took out the food, which was hot (along with the saucer), the ants were still merrily crawling around... as if nothing happened! I was freaked out! So what did I do after several seconds just staring inside the microwave oven and letting my food slowly get cold?
I googled for answers and found this: That Explains It! Now why do I keep thinking that there's a military application for this?
I was once floored when I saw aqua-like widgets on a Mac desktop. I later found out that it's run by Konfabulator, an app that manages anything from a clock, to a weather checker, to a tetris clone. It's cool testing it, trying out all sorts of widgets, and placing them all around my desktop.
Then one day, I woke up and realized how messy my desktop looked. I had a calendar, a weather report, a clock, an iTunes album cover, and a battery level checker running. This is not what OS X should look like. The beauty of OS X is in its simple, Zen-like interface. Less is more.
Same feeling I had when Zlauncher started to get bloated... but that's another story.
I stumbled upon Steve Sizemore's Weblog. If you want to see what's up with Camino and how it looks like compared to Firefox, then that's the site to see.
Adium X 0.61 and Fire 1.0.3 are now available. Recently, Yahoo has "blocked" multi-IM clients so I'm pretty sure these updates would solve that. These are the best multi-IM clients in the Mac platform. Both have exclusive features to offer and should appeal to the normal user or the tweaker-at-heart.
Here's yet another utility for your Gmail account:
Redirect any mailto: link on the web to your Gmail account. Download Gmailto, move it anywhere, open Mail.app's preferences and select "Gmailto (1)" as your "Default Email Reader" from the "General" section.
Get it at VersionTracker.
I've observed how the browsers eat up system resources, usually in my Powerbook, the results would be this (with 1 as the highest resource gobbler)...
1. Firefox
2. Camino
3. Mozilla
4. Opera
5. Safari
Of these, Opera would be the most efficient because it's already running its own email client. This is not a scientific result. I just went through several webpages and checked the results in Activity Monitor.
I'm still an Opera fan, the problem is, our site uses a program that's optimized for Windows so for the the Mac, only Mozilla and Firefox could handle it.
From CNN: "CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Government and industry experts warned late Thursday of a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites. The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software onto the computers of all Web site visitors.
Industry experts and the Homeland Security Department were studying the infection to determine how it spreads across Web sites and find adequate defenses against it.
"Users should be aware that any Web site, even those that may be trusted by the user, may be affected by this activity and thus contain potentially malicious code," the government warned in one Internet alert."
So for Windows users out there, time to update your antivirus programs.
This was in response to one of the posts at 1src:
Just want to say that the CS discussions have all been migrated here since day 1. Some forum topics were merged some other topics are not yet in place. But if you do a key word search, you'd find what you're looking for. The news are in a new format. They're all in: Latest News by Category. What you see there are very new articles. Clicking on one would bring you to the details PLUS it would show you related topics. When you want to comment on these, the discussion is brought in the Forums.
Reggie's doing the best he can to put everything back online. Some have given up waiting but that's fine by me because we need a community that's made up of resilient members. I'd rather have a forum with low traffic but meaningful discussions rather than many topics but of no substance.
So I'm confident that with what we have here, we'll have a site that's even better than Cliesource. CS, POC, and 1src has never been a day job for any one of us but we're always proud of what we continue to do for everyone. If I were younger, I'd be hurt by the negative comments but I now see them as areas of improvement.
Enjoy your stay at 1src. Thanks for being around.
"Welcome to the new SETI@home! The project is now officially active. We've reset the project by deleting all results and workunits, and setting all credits (user, team, host) to zero. Thanks to everyone who participated in the alpha and beta tests for their help in debugging SETI@home and BOINC."
No wonder my other SETI@home machine blinked out last month! I've always wanted to check SETI@home to check for updates but somehow preferred some other task to play with later. Anyway, I've downloaded the OS X version. It's still run in the Terminal but should look great once graphics are in there. In the meantime, I've changed my Terminal's opacity (defaults write com.apple.terminal TerminalOpaqueness .75) just to give some coolness points to SETI@home running in the background.
Will we really find extraterrestrials? I doubt it. What's amazing about this project is not the search for something out there but how processing power is shared worldwide towards accomplishing one task.
Ok folks. I'm sorry for this post. Why? Because I believe my problems earlier were a series of PEBKAC* events.
I was in an adventurous mood and deleted all instances of Mozilla in my Powerbook (CMD+F, search for "mozilla", "firefox", "camino")... and DELETED every match. Yes deleted. I then did a restart and reinstalled Firefox 0.9... and guess what, it worked without problems. Extension preferences were working, and I might be imagining it, but FF loaded pages faster.
So that's it, for the record: on a fresh/clean install, Firefox will work.
Sorry Kelvin, I really thought the problem was with Firefox.
PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
In response to Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail, Apple will offer 5GB of storage for .mac subscribers. This will be integrated with iTunes and a new wireless iPod. It will have a .mac only playlist option which can be accessed by the iPod. "1000 Songs On Air"
I can dream can't I?
From Reuters: "Microsoft will now boost storage to 250 megabytes for users of its free MSN Hotmail and also increased the size of attachments that can be sent with e-mails, to 10 megabytes from 1 megabyte previously. Users of the free MSN Hotmail before had 2 megabytes of storage capacity."
Fun isn't it? In their quest to jockey for the top position for free emailing services, it's the consumers who are benefiting. Well, the ad-generated income will make these companies richer but for the normal email won't care. Free space is free space.
Ok, what's your offer, Apple?
Here's a nice one from Belkin. It reminds me of the original Volkswagen's flower vase and how I still think it's cool.
Camino is one of those browsers that I like using in OS X. It runs on Gecko too but it's exclusively made for OS X. The Camino dev team is doing great and I only see great thing going for this browser.
New features added since Camino 0.7 include:
* A new bookmark manager with integrated Rendezvous, Address Book (on OSX 10.2+), Search, and Top 10 list.
* Google Search bar
* Session history on back/forward buttons
* Greatly improved cookie management
* A more compact download manager
* Allow lists (white-lists) for popup blocking
* Incremental type-ahead find
* Upgrades the Gecko HTML rendering engine from Mozilla 1.0 to Mozilla 1.7, resulting in performance, stability, and rendering improvements
* And many more!!!
From PCPro: "A new supercomputer comprising 1,566 dual-processor Apple Xserve servers is expected to be the second most powerful in the world, with a peak performance capability of 25 Teraflops per second.
Mach 5 will be built by the Colsa Corporation at a cost of $5.8mn and will be used by the US Army to model the complex aerodynamics of hypersonic flight."
Good choice of machines by the military! Strange though that this news is in a PC site.
Meteorologist is finally working. "This release should fix all of the reported problems with International and larger US Cities that were either not showing up in the city search or were not getting the correct (or any) weather information. This is still a beta release, though, but hopefully it works well."
Though weather is Guam is either sunny or rainy, it's still cool to see a weather icon up there in the menu bar. I've also configured Meteorologist to also get the weather in Manila and Charleston.
Here's good news from COTL GUI STUDIOS. (You should know them if you use Shapeshifter).
"The release date for X-Metal has finally been set. On Saturday, June 26, 2004 X-Metal will be available for download. This package features the X-Metal guiKit, the return of miXthepiX (Hein Mevissen) via custom icons, and all new desktop pics."
I just might activate Shapeshifter once again if only to try out this theme. Themes I've tried in the past have cluttered the look of OS X thereby losing its innate simplicity. Let's see if X-metal would succeed to make me shift.
Big thanks to Shaun who mentioned Switchblog at PDA247. It was a welcome surprise.
I was extremely disappointed when a new app was featured in Palmgear the other day. It's call LALO and it's supposed to be a HALO clone. It's freeware too. So, smelling that something's not right, I went on ahead and downloaded and installed it. My feeling was right, LALO was a piece of useless software... It showed only two screens, the title screen and what I call the insult screen. The insult screen said something like how stupid the downloader was for believing something like this would work. I was so disappointed that I quickly uninstalled it and dragged the zip file to the trash... and emptied the trash right there and then. It was good move for Palmgear to already pull out the app.
Anyway, what's sadder is the waste of talent and time that went into this. I'm sad for this misguided programmer who had too much time on his hand. If idle time and talent could be given away, I wish I could get some from that guy who had a lot of it but chose to throw it away.
My brother Reggie has just made a new theme for 1src. It's based on Cliesource and PalmOneCity. This should pacify those who still could not adjust to the new site. Interestingly, I compared both themes and though it's quite nostalgic (it's less than a month but considering internet time that's about correct) to see the "classic" theme, I found that I prefer the new theme.
Here are the links:
To view the site using the Classic Theme,
click on the following link: http://www.1src.com/?theme=2
To view the site using the Original Theme,
click on the following link: http://www.1src.com/?theme=1
Here's my version of the audio post:
audio post powered by the Sony Clie TH55/E.
audio post powered by audblog
I've just downloaded the Mac OS X June 22 nightly build.
Extensions are labeled as "TESTING ONLY" but Extensions preferences works great so far. I have the following installed: All-In-One Gestures, AdBlock, and RSS Reader.
Since I believe the problem's solved now, I think Mozilla will come up with an update soon.
I'm tired of seeing people offering all sorts of stuff to get a Gmail account. So when I read at Wil Wheaton's that there's a site getting people to donate a Gmail account to the US military, I posted one! It shall only be given away to anyone with a .mil address.
It's good to know too that the site knows about spam:
1. Email addresses are source code encrypted. They can not be harvested by Spam Spiders.
2. Enter the Characters exactly as displayed. This stops robot spam posting.
Visit the site at Gmail4Troops. I'm at #219.
UPDATE: A few hours later, I've already sent out the invite! It's for a Staff Sergeant. How cool is that!
This blog should look like this:
NOT like this:
If you want to see my blog as I intend it to be, I invite you to download my handwriting font.
(I originally had this entry.)
The BMW iPod adapter can be installed in 2002 or later 3 Series, X3 and X5 SAVs, Z4 Roadsters and MINIs with compatible audio configurations. More at Apple.
I'm beginning to migrate my Yahoo!Mail email to Gmail. One thing to remember is that those with attachments should use "Forward As Attachment" and not "Forward As Inline Text." Otherwise, you'll end up with just text and dead links.
After that, I archived important conversations and files.
Here's more about archiving...
To take advantage of Google Search and reduce the time you spend organizing your inbox, archive your conversations.
Archived messages are stored in 'All Mail' and are available when you search.
If you label a message, you can also find it by clicking on the label section on the left side of your browser window or by searching for a specific label.
To archive messages:
1. Select the message(s) you would like to archive by checking the box(es) next to the sender's name.
2. Click 'Archive' located near the top of your inbox.
You can also archive mail from Conversation View. To archive a message from Conversation View, click 'Archive' along the top of your message.
I've been looking around and found the following. Try it out and see if it works for you too.
The easiest way is to type about:config and press return. Just double click the values to change them. Some of these might not be in the page so you would have to go here: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/default/prefs.js
Again, just change the numerical or true/false values. Add the whole line if it's not in your Firefox version.
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 100000);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 4);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 2);
user_pref("network.image.imageBehavior", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);
user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled ", true);
This might slow things down so just play around with it:
user_pref("general.smoothScroll", true);
I was in the mood again to play with my Windows XP Home machine so I went and installed this.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate Preview 2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx
You would have to use Internet Explorer to make all things work in the upgrade process.
After about an hour or so of installing and testing, here are the following improvements I've noticed:
1. Startup Page
Windows XP text only. There's no more "Home" or "Professional." The KITT-like startup light is now blue.
2. Security
There's now a window warning you about setting up a Firewall.
3. Internet Explorer
It's now 6.0.2900.2149.xpsp_sp2_rc2.040610-1520. I was surprised that it now has a pop-up blocker!
And I don't know when this happened but "Turn Off" is now used instead of "Shutdown."
I once had a problem with the Powerbook. When I connected it to an LCD projector, the image on the Powerbook did not match the image projected.
I found the solution at Apple Help. Though it's written with Keynote in mind, this should also help Powerpoint users.
I've heard that some people still do not have their 100MB space at Yahoo!Mail. This should all be activated now. If not, in Yahoo!Mail go to My Account then check under Member Information. Language & Content should be set to "English - United States." Refresh.
Now on to Gmail. Gmail's been very generous with invites lately. A friend asked if there's POP access for Gmail. Well, there's no official one from Google, but there's this Windows application that can be used. Pop Goes the Gmail is by JAYBE.org.
Now that I have these two email addresses setup, I'm thinking what's the difference of this from Apple Mail? Mail can provide more space, filter mail, and most importantly search through everything. Mail does not have ads and can also be set up to access multiple accounts. It's very secure too.
So I think if you have your own computer (that has an always-on interenet access) wherever you go, chances are you would have your own ISP-provide email account -- with Mail, Outlook, Opera Mail, or Thunderbird to access it. With those on hand, Gmail and Yahoo!Mail becomes redundant.
Something is severely broken in Firefox 0.9 for the Mac. Extensions do not work, some sites render improperly, and other miscellaneous errors. I did a full uninstall and reinstall ... but always got the same errors.
So, I tried release candidate 3 and everything works fine! I found the file at the milestone builds page.
I was just about ready to sleep when I discovered that Firefox 0.9 is now available. I'm downloading it now and here's what's new:
* - Extension Manager
* - Theme Manager
* - Data Migration/Import
* - New Visual Theme
* - Better Bookmarks
* - Better Search
* - Smaller Download
* - Online Help
June 14, 2004 (The Internet) - The Mozilla Foundation today announced the immediate availability of a new preview release of its next generation web browser, Mozilla Firefox 0.9. Faster, more secure, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation.
Just got this in my Yahoo!Mail box...
+++
Great news – Yahoo! Mail is new and improved!
Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo! Mail user. To ensure that Yahoo! Mail continues to be the easiest, most enjoyable way for you to stay in touch, we've made several great improvements to your service! In addition to all the features you currently enjoy, we've made these upgrades:
* Streamlined interface
Makes using your mail even easier
* 100MB of email storage
Keep more of the things that are important to you – without worrying about bumping up against your storage limit.
* Message size up to 10MB
Send monster-sized files – photos, presentations, whatever!
So thanks again for choosing Yahoo! Mail to keep in touch, and we hope you enjoy the additional services now at your fingertips.
I had fun with this demo. It gave new life to my iTunes collection:
MegaSeg is a music mixer for mobile DJ's, radio stations, and anyone who needs total control over the music mix. MegaSeg features a library search and categorizing system to find requests instantly, and advanced music scheduling and events. Crossfade or beatmix using MegaSeg's multiple sound output support for cue and preview tracks.
$169 but very, very full featured. I'm sure the Mac-user-DJ's out there would appreciate this app.
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon yesterday so I finally decided to try out eReader Pro. I already have the Pro version for my Clie so I was wondering what the desktop equivalent could do. Well, I was impressed! Aside from appearance themes, you can also choose and change fonts, set bookmarks, check word definitions, and check your 'book battery level. If you change the view to full screen, it's like actually reading a book (minus the nice paper smell of course). There's even a shadow in the center of the page when you're in the "Two Pages" view. There are free ebooks to get you started which are yours to keep when your 15-day trial ends.
Here's what they say at the purchase page (yup, I bought it!) :
"eReader Pro for Macintosh includes the Webster's New World(tm) Vest Pocket Dictionary and the ability to create and swap background themes with your friends. You can also highlight sections of the text and have notes attached to those highlighted selections. Other new features include the ability to control the line spacing of your books and select the pen color for highlighting. You also get improved note editing capabilities as well as new Find options. Plus there's a new two page viewing option that you're sure to enjoy."
I saw that Mozilla 1.7 RC3 was available so I tested it. It has improved a lot in terms of usability and speed in OS X. I played around with themes (my default is Aaron Spuler's Smoke) and went to 1src to test it. Everything worked! We're using Nephp for site content but the program won't work in the other OS X browsers. (It was a major disappointment that Opera failed in this). After this, I set up my email. Mozilla mail first considered all new mail as junk so I had to re-adjust my junk mail setting.
I went over to mozillazine to check out on what's happening in the Mozilla world. What got me was one post saying how can Mozilla 1.7 be better or faster than Firefox 0.9 when they're using the same engine? Deep down I was thinking, if Firefox works for Nephp, then I know I'd switch.
So I've switched to Firefox now (considered as "Mozilla lite). Mozilla 1.7 will still remain in my Applications set for a future upgrade (it's still not the final release).
Now, I've just downloaded Thunderbird, an email client which I've used briefly in WindowsXP. What's wrong with Mail? Well, nothing really... I guess my tendency to try out new software has not worn off since my PC day. I still find it interesting to test out new things. With OS X and its fantastic interface, testing only gets more fun.
Two great news today...
First, Apple has updated its PowerMacs -- significant is liquid-cooling feature.
Second, iTunes has been updated and now features support for AirPort Express and AirTunes. Fire up Software Update if you haven't yet.
I accidentally brought home my sister's Clie T615 cradle a few months ago. I remembered I had it a few weeks ago when I got my TH55/E. The TH55/E fits but it's not a perfect fit. However, I can charge and hotsync without problems. The black color of the cradle looks great with the black case of the TH55/E. These are one of those times when I'm happy that new technology can work with the old.
The picture was taken using my UX50. I had to take several shots to get the blue Bluetooth light.
Enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of your house. Share a single broadband Internet connection and USB printer without inconvenient and obtrusive cables. Create an instant wireless network on the go. Extend the range of your current wireless network. How many devices do you need to do all this? Just one.
Apple has announced Airport Express. With the announcement of this device, I wonder how long until we see a full line of unwired Macs.
For a long time, I thought I was happy with LaunchBar. It was the first application I bought when I got my Powerbook. It was an essential application when I was using the school's computers.
Yesterday, I discovered Butler and promptly replaced LaunchBar with it after reading a starter's guide at macosxhints.
Just a few minutes ago, I found Quicksilver. It's not listed at Versiontracker to my amazement, but is found at Blacktree.
I was hooked! It just looks fantastic this is what apps should look and behave within OS X.
A further surprise... go to About Quicksilver and you'll see this:
Act without doing;
work without effort.
Think of the small as large
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.
Lao-Tse
Some of you might remember about the time when Opera complained that Microsoft purposely made MSN.com appear broken in Opera Well, that's settled and done with but Microsoft's at it again.
In Opera, set it as "Identify as Opera" and go here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xpsp2websites.asp
Now, set Opera to identify as Mozilla, or MSIE, copy and paste the site again... now that site works! Opera's clearly blocked again ...