Love the Mac: August 2005 Archives

Love the Mac > August 31, 2005

New widgets on Widget Machine

[guiKit] Created for Macworld.com, the official Macworld widget grabs the latest headlines from the website onto your Dashboard. Select to have headlines displayed from up to ten different sections, including News, Reviews, Mac Gems, Mac OS X Hints, and the Macworld Podcast.

MailTags

[Notes from a messy desk] OK, I’ve already linked to it on my del.icio.us, but I think this deserves a proper post. MailTags is a plugin for Mac OS X 10.4’s Mail.app which allows you to add extra metadata to messages.

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Posted at 06:49 PM

August 31, 2005

New widgets on Widget Machine

Posted at 06:51 PM

MailTags

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Posted at 06:49 PM

Apple updates Safari

[Digital Tech Life] So, you might be seeing more Apple info on the site…like this: Apple has released a Safari update 1.3.1 for Mac OS X v10.3 Panther users 1 and a Safari update 2.0.1 for Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger users2. Apple claims that the updates will improve website compatibility, application stability, and support for 3rd party web apps.

Posted at 06:40 PM

Fixing Tiger Upgrade Issues

[Exigency In Specie] After the failure to get the Tiger upgrade to work yesterday, I’ve been looking at sorting out the issues that caused the upgrade problems. Firstly...

Posted at 06:39 PM

August 30, 2005

Upgraded Last Night

[ MB Blog] Last night it upgraded my G3 iBook to Tiger and I have to say this update is pretty cool. From the new feature of Mail, Dashboard, and Automator...

Posted at 08:30 AM

Tagging in Mail on your mac (MailTags)

[Feh! v2] I’ve just installedMail Tags and It looks great. It allows me to add tags and comments to emails, and makes use of smartfolders so I can view by tags.

Posted at 08:28 AM

Galacticaa Widget 2.1

[Galacticaa.net] We’ve just released a minor update to our Galacticaa Dashboard widget. Fixed an issue where the countdown clock failed to load when the widget is...

Posted at 08:24 AM

Back to Panther

[Exigency In Specie] I tried to track down what was causing the lack of logs, but to no avail, so decided to try reinstalling the operating system files. Having done the reinstall, aside from having accidentally lost all of the e-mail downloaded that morning, everything seemed to work ok, until the Software Update system upgraded to version 10.4.2, at which point I was getting an error whenever fetchmail tried to start.

Posted at 08:23 AM

August 26, 2005

miniStat2 Widget

[guiKit] Now you can increase your Mac system monitoring with many new features, its numerous code optimizations, and all in a compact widget with customizable skins. This widget shows all informations about your Mac’s processor, memory, storage, sensors, network connections and battery.

Posted at 10:05 PM

Google sidebar

[Guillaume Belfiore's Techblog - Selected webtech news, product reviews, latest Yahoo! upcomings, tips and tricks...] I'm feeling really weird here, I've been telling Yahoo to come up with a sidebar or to turn their messenger into a sidebar for 3 years, since I first saw the MSN 8 or Longhorn dashboard...And now...

Posted at 10:03 PM

Pleistocene Park USA

[Audit Trails of Self] This is presented as an alternative conservation strategy for the twenty-first century, but could very well introduce new variables into the American ecosystem leading to unintended consequences, for example, other species falling ill from new bacteria. Mutations among the introduced species are also likely.

Posted at 10:02 PM

Pasteboard in Mac OS X

[Notes from a messy desk] This means that, for example, you can dump the output of a shell script straight to the clipboard, rather than letting it flow to stdout, then selecting and copying the output from the terminal (something I do quite often, particularly when I’m trying to write documentation or tutorials). The other thing I learned (both from the pbcopy(1) manual page and from a post on the TextMate users mailing list) was that there are multiple Pasteboards in Mac OS X.

Posted at 09:57 PM

August 25, 2005

[IMG One]

[ Monkeypup] Posted on August 21st, 2005 by Monkeypup in Misc The theme at Photo Friday this week is One. Here’s my entry.

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Posted at 01:17 PM

The Mac ReviewCast Episode #17

[Surf-BitÃƒ¢Ã¢‚¬™s Mac ReviewCast] Robert from the macCompanion is able to join us today, he talks about his iMac crashing when he installed the security update earlier this week. And we talk about Lynda.com and the free one day passes we have to give away for those going to http://www.lynda.com/freepass/cs2 and signing up.

Posted at 01:16 PM

Tiger Woods PGA Tour Review

[ Ã‚» Portable Gaming Revolution] When I first saw the list of games available for the PSP I was surprised to see two golf titles come out that early after launch, these being Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Hot Shots Golf. Now, I’m not the biggest golf fan but when I buy any sport game I like it to be as realistic and as close to the actual sport as possible, this is why I picked up Tiger Woods despite the raving reviews for Hot Shots.

Posted at 12:54 PM

Google's Desktop Search TWO

[The Record Card] It's great to use, seems very light and flexible, and extremely powerful. The new way the search works is fantastic, although I think it needs a little working on.

Posted at 12:53 PM

August 22, 2005

Mob scene, several hurt in rush for cheap laptops:...

[Late Night With Mr. X & Just Julie] Mob scene, several hurt in rush for cheap laptops: "What started as a sale turned into a mob scene as thousands of people pushed their way through the...

Posted at 09:53 AM

Are Apple iBooks Worth This?

[Todays Democracy : News, Feature Stories, Entertainment, Business, Science & Technology] The local press is not apportioning blame for the fiasco, although we would like to suggest that Apple be exonerated in this case and the finger pointed at the true culprit - Dell. After all, if the company did not offer such top-notch products at unbeatable prices to the US education system, then Richmond would not have had to witness these disgraceful scenes.

Posted at 09:51 AM

Dangerous iBook Sale

[NoSheep!] The Bison tried to convince me to go down to Virginia and buy some used Apple iBooks that were being sold for $50 each. I was in Utah...

Posted at 09:48 AM

iBook Riot Aftermath: Concert for iBook “Sale of Destruction” Survivors?

[Independent Sources] No word yet on whether Bono will be organizing a concert to support the relief efforts for the riot survivors and more importantly those who were tragically not able to sell a laptop on eBay. Equally important, if there is a concert, will they be priced way below market, and how fast wll we be able to resell them?

Posted at 09:47 AM

August 19, 2005

I finally have a mac!

[davids brain blog] Just like using RoR to make web app development easy by removing all the tedious rubbish and making everything intuitive, switching to a mac from Windows I just have to think….if Windows is supposed to be the champion of the less able user that requires guidance and fluffy buttons to help him use his computer, then what does Windows have that makes it better suited for this than a mac? When first trying to install a program, I was somewhat bemused by the single file that had downloaded for my firefox install.

Posted at 06:23 PM

The Mac ReviewCast Episode #16

[Surf-Bit’s Mac ReviewCast] Here’s the 16th episode of the Mac ReviewCast! Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to check out the photo gallery of the items we review at my surfbits.smugmug.com account.

Posted at 06:15 PM

OS X 10.4 Tiger

[The Beats Are Calling] Hey, A-Jay, I should just bring my Powerbook and my M-Box sometime to a session and record your band. Now I'd have to get mics and the expensive ass cables.

Posted at 06:12 PM

Tiger Photoshoot Turns Deadly

[Newley Purnell] This hits a little close to home. Technorati Tags: tiger, Thailand...

Posted at 06:07 PM

August 18, 2005

Review: Verizon VZMinutes

[Breaking Windows 2.0 - Rants & Raves by Ken Edwards & Matt Paprocki] In short, Widgets are Sherlock without all the overhead. Search engine widgets are great, RSS widgets are nice, comic widgets are fun, but these web services widgets like the VZMinutes widget are the reason Dashboard really shines.

Posted at 07:03 PM

Techpodcasts and Affiliates Add GoDaddy.com as an Advertiser

[Surf-Bit’s Mac ReviewCast] Spokesperson Todd Cochrane says, “This is a major advertiser alignment forour members and the techpodcasts.com network. Having GoDaddy as anadvertiser provides our members to offer listeners specific, targetedmoney-saving deals on products they are already buying.”

Posted at 06:50 PM

I finally have a mac!: David says: "I have to say,...

[Late Night With Mr. X & Just Julie] Yes, the Mac is great and Mac users know this--but--wouldn't it be fun to really know both? I think so and that's why I'm forcing myself to learn both."

Posted at 06:47 PM

So I'm taking the plunge.

[Wong Ho-Wai (fujiwara)] There's an option to just "upgrade" the system to 10.4 Tiger and then there's an option to just wipe out the hard drive and install the OS. Nelson told me he upgraded to Tiger that way and it worked out perfectly.

Posted at 06:46 PM

OS X 10.4 Update

[davids brain blog] Ever since I installed the recent Tiger updates (released by Apple earlier this week) I’ve been having a lot of problems with programs consuming too much memory and CPU.

Posted at 06:44 PM

August 08, 2005

My New iBook G4

[melody to funkytown] Yesterday, I bought a brand new iBook, complete with a 512mb RAM upgrade (from the standard 512mb). Needless to say, this computer is sick!...

Posted at 02:24 PM

Reconnaissance vocale pour OSX

[Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)] Puisque Dragon n’existe pas pour Mac, il y a deux solutions: ViaVoice et iListen. ViaVoice n’est plus en développement actif, donc le choix serait plutÃ´t iListen, dont j’ai entendu beaucoup de bien, et qui a l’avantage de bien s’intégrer dans l’environnement OSX.

Posted at 02:22 PM

Mac news

[Ölbaum’s Delirium] I’m looking for a good news sites about the Mac but I have difficulty finding one. I ditched MacNN because they constantly mix up the words announce and release and don’t give much information in their articles.

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Posted at 02:16 PM

Mac OSX 10.4.2 Out

[NickStarr.com : Nick Starr dot com] New updates to Dashboard, bug fixes, and other items. read more | digg story Tags: Apple, Mac, OS, X, 10.4.2, Tiger, update, Dashboard...

Posted at 02:14 PM

Gas by Jason Barry & Eben Eliason

[guiKit] Gas by Jason Barry & Eben Eliason Posted by Pridef in Dashboard, Apple About Gas: Make gas consumption a pleasure with the satisfaction of...

Posted at 02:11 PM

August 07, 2005

Linux Vs Mac Os X

[Litux Photos :: /] finally takes the plunge into a strange yet cool parallel OS dimension. Join him in his journey through the Mac OS X looking glass.

Posted at 11:26 AM

ATLAS on a G5?

[ Cosmic Variance] Have any of our lovely and astute readers sucessfully gotten the ATLAS libraries to work on a G5 running Tiger? (i.e., sucessfully linked the LAPACK libraries from the ATLAS distribution) Progress understanding the fate of the Universe lies in your hands!

Posted at 11:25 AM

PlayStation 3 processor could support Mac OS X Tiger

[Breaking Windows 2.0 - Rants & Raves by Ken Edwards & Matt Paprocki] It's unclear at the moment exactly what this will mean for Mac or PlayStation 3 users. Sony's Cell processor is a derivative of IBM's PowerPC chip used by Apple in its personal computers.

Posted at 11:21 AM

First TIGER Biosensor System Shipped

[Tech.Life.Blogged] The TIGER (Triangulation Identification for Genetic Evaluation of Risks) biosensor system is a revolutionary system that can simultaneously identify thousands of infectious organisms without needing to know what might be present in a sample.Read more about TIGER

Posted at 11:19 AM

In Response to William Blake: Tiger, Tiger, Not Quite Right”¦

[The Fivefold Path] There are all kinds of usability idiosyncrasies that make it unexpectedly difficult for someone transitioning from Windows. Just a few of the oddities that have been making my OS X life miserable”¦ The lack of consistently working home, end, page down, page up keys.

Posted at 11:18 AM

August 04, 2005

Yahoo / Google divergence

[Ben Werdmuller :: Weblog] Google Earth is a pretty magnificent piece of software, which Google Maps is a web-based echo of, and they have pages that allow you to see where individual taxi cabs are in various US cities, check out pizza joints in your neighbourhood and develop escape plans in the event of a terrorist attack. (If this last one seems incongruous, consider Google's well known participating with the Chinese government, and then consider how much more they've probably done with the US administration.) They've also released an API allowing their searching / mapping technologies to be harnessed by anyone who wants to develop a free web application.

Posted at 10:46 AM

Dashboard weather

[chaotic intransient prose bursts] I was responding to the comment about Dashboard using "too much resources" - because I don't see it consuming many resources at all... and practically nothing when Dashboard is not active (all the widgets show a CPU use of 0%).

Posted at 10:44 AM

FlySketch 1.5 Released

[Surf-Bits Mac ReviewCast] The Mac ReviewCast welcomes you to our home and hope you subscribe to our podcast. We'll look at all the great software, hardware, websites and companies that make using a Mac something special.

Posted at 10:42 AM

Hacking Mac OS X Tiger Excerpt Posted

[Chris Webb's ExtremeTech Blog - Books, Hacks, Mods, Technology and General Geekiness] And now there's OS X Tiger, just begging you to get in there and create your dream machine. Here are serious hacks you won't find anywhere else—ways to change the boot screen, unlock hidden Finder settings, enhance speed and performance, and really customize your Mac.

Posted at 10:39 AM

Video Review: Apple’s Mighty Mouse

[theory.isthereason] In this review, I show you what comes in the retail box, breeze through the Mighty Mouse System Preference, and focus on the mouse’s multi-buttons and little grey rubber ball. Finally, while it’s features are now common-knowledge, I go through what I believe are hardware design quirks.

Posted at 10:38 AM

August 02, 2005

Apple using DRM in the kernel

[KenSwain.com] They are including TCPA/TPM DRM in the kernel of OSX for Intel. I know this is just really there to stop people from stealing the OS, but damn!

Posted at 11:00 AM

Konfabulator is Free!

[Blog on a Stick] Before Apple’s Dashboard was a little program called Konfabulator. Konfabulator works on your desktop and can do anything Dashboard can do.

Posted at 10:58 AM

Tag your Java source code with Tiger’s annotation

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Posted at 10:57 AM

Apple comes out with new Mac Mini’s and iBooks

[NickStarr.com : Nick Starr dot com] No widescreen iBook, but they bumped the speed to 1.42 GHz and are including 512 ram with Bluetooth, 2 finger scroll, fall protection, and the 14″ model has a superdrive now.

Posted at 10:54 AM

Free Mac OS X Tiger POTD Porn Widget

[Mistress V - Deviant Femdom Blog from a Sweet Sadistic Dominant Woman] When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link.

Posted at 10:52 AM

August 01, 2005

Scoble Goes Off On One

[Exigency In Specie] Usually Robert Scobles blog is a pretty good read, however I’m not quite sure what he was on yesterday, but he seemed to throw a massive mud...

Posted at 11:09 AM

Yahoo Konfabulates (or, er, Konfabulator Yahoos)

[Axis] Still, I haven't upgraded to Tiger yet, so widgets aren't really an option to me unless I Konfabulate, so maybe now that it's free I'll download and see what's Kool (should probably note that Konfabulator is also available for Windows, which gives it bonus points for developers, and is probably one of the reasons Yahoo! was interested, because Apple sort of stole the whole idea for their new operating system, didn't they?

Posted at 11:07 AM

Apple’s image

[Jason-Preston.com] Appropriately following my previous post on how cool Steve Jobs can be, I thought I’d take a second to flesh out my disagreement with the way Apple names their operating systems.

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Posted at 11:06 AM

Love the Mac > August 31, 2005

New widgets on Widget Machine

MailTags

August 31, 2005

New widgets on Widget Machine

MailTags

Apple updates Safari

Fixing Tiger Upgrade Issues

August 30, 2005

Upgraded Last Night

Tagging in Mail on your mac (MailTags)

Galacticaa Widget 2.1

Back to Panther

August 26, 2005

miniStat2 Widget

Google sidebar

Pleistocene Park USA

Pasteboard in Mac OS X

August 25, 2005

[IMG One]

The Mac ReviewCast Episode #17

Tiger Woods PGA Tour Review

Google's Desktop Search TWO

August 22, 2005

Mob scene, several hurt in rush for cheap laptops:...

Are Apple iBooks Worth This?

Dangerous iBook Sale

iBook Riot Aftermath: Concert for iBook “Sale of Destruction” Survivors?

August 19, 2005

I finally have a mac!

The Mac ReviewCast Episode #16

OS X 10.4 Tiger

Tiger Photoshoot Turns Deadly

August 18, 2005

Review: Verizon VZMinutes

Techpodcasts and Affiliates Add GoDaddy.com as an Advertiser

I finally have a mac!: David says: "I have to say,...

So I'm taking the plunge.

OS X 10.4 Update

August 08, 2005

My New iBook G4

Reconnaissance vocale pour OSX

Mac news

Mac OSX 10.4.2 Out

Gas by Jason Barry & Eben Eliason

August 07, 2005

Linux Vs Mac Os X

ATLAS on a G5?

PlayStation 3 processor could support Mac OS X Tiger

First TIGER Biosensor System Shipped

In Response to William Blake: Tiger, Tiger, Not Quite Right”¦

August 04, 2005

Yahoo / Google divergence

Dashboard weather

FlySketch 1.5 Released

Hacking Mac OS X Tiger Excerpt Posted

Video Review: Apple’s Mighty Mouse

August 02, 2005

Apple using DRM in the kernel

Konfabulator is Free!

Tag your Java source code with Tiger’s annotation

Apple comes out with new Mac Mini’s and iBooks

Free Mac OS X Tiger POTD Porn Widget

August 01, 2005

Scoble Goes Off On One

Yahoo Konfabulates (or, er, Konfabulator Yahoos)

Apple’s image

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