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I know it seems early to make this call, but it looks like there's no real competition this year. The clear winner is a sleek little black beauty that replaces an already popular item. At first it seems like an expensive vanity purchase, but over time one...
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Killer movie.
See it.
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Under OS 9 and earlier Mac OSes, you could force an item in a Finder window to sort down to the bottom of a list by putting a bullet [Option+8] (or any number of other option-characters) in front of the name.
This doesn't work under OS X where putting a ...
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As of today, the link on the left side of the page for the MII Clear Component Mod will link to the local copy of the mod rather than to the copy on MacMod.com.
It took a surprising amount of work to adapt it to work within the styles that I use on this ...
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The Dashboard app in Mac OS X 10.4 takes up much more RAM and CPU time than you may think.
Once it has been activated for the first time after you start up, it remains active in the background, consuming perhaps 7-10MB RAM per widget and a significant ...
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It seems that every time that I make a significant update to this site, my hosting company has some sort of problem -- typically a drive-crash -- and they have to revert to an ancient backup.
While I know that I can't rely on the host's backups, I keep...
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I posted this a couple of weeks ago before my host had its little meltdown.
One of my friends has a problem with a printer driver that hangs when she tries to shutdown or restart her Mac. She won't let me try to fix it, and the [Apple][Option][Escape] ...
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Here's yet another item that was lost when my host had it's little problem...
I clean out my e-mail folders and archive my old e-mail at the beginning of every year. In addition to backing up the mail database files, I also export all of the e-mail to ...
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I just noticed that my fixes for the MII G3 Component Mod page disappeared when my site was restored from backup. It was a mess, but I've fixed it again....
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When the first Safari Widget exploits were discussed, one of the interesting ways that people found to protect themselves was to install an AppleScript Folder Action that would pop up an alert when a Widget was installed in their Widgets folder. This woul...
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I was feeling clever for using AppleScript to quit the Dock and temporarily disable Dashboard, but there was a better way available.
I recently came across this old tip at MacOSXHints.com which describes various options that you can add the the hidden Do...
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Technically the blue peep won....
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I picked up some new earbuds last week. I've been on the lookout for a sale on this specific model for awhile as a replacement for a set of buds that has served me well for ages.
The MDR-EX81LPs retail for about $50 dollars (but who buys retail?) and A...
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I don't like McDonalds' food very much. It's mostly because their burgers are so salty rather than because of the calories. But when I'm coming home from someplace at 2am, they're the only restaurant that's open locally -- I've got a 24-hour McDonald's ...
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The Get Info window in Mac OS X 10.4 does not properly report the size of a file. It rounds and it doesn't report the size of a file's resource fork.
Neither is the ls -l command from the command-line perfectly accurate -- it only reports the size of t...
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I've had a big project going on this week and haven't been paying much attention to e-mail and such.
As a result, I appear to have missed a few iMacquarium questions both e-mailed and posted in the comments area for that section of the site.
For those...
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This is an applet that I came up with to test an application to see whether it will run natively on PPC or Intel Macs.
Copy and paste the code into the Script Editor and save it as an application. (Be careful of line-breaks!) You can then drop any appl...
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I listen to podcasts with an unsupported third-party MP3 player. Which mostly works out great -- it's much cheaper than an iPod and holds just as much with an interface almost as good.
But Apple did one evil thing to sabotage people who download podcas...
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Wherein our hero offers up his body to science to advance human knowledge...
Last week, a buddy of mine left his little cannister of Axe body spray at my apartment. By fortuitous coincidence, I had just purchased a can of Old Spice body spray from the ...
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A few small problems popped up in the move to Firefox 2.0.
I used the Nightly Tester Tools extension -- ur... I mean "Add-on" (new nomenclature) -- to make all of my extensions compatible and was immediately struck by problems with two ext... Add-ons.
T...
