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Circus Ponies Notebook 3

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One of my favorite "must-have" Mac OS X applications just got better. Oooh. Ahh.



Word Clock

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Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X and Windows. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes.



The Pencil Project

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With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.



The Greatest Bug of All

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Wil Shipley has posted a well-written, entertaining, and educational look into the heart of troubleshooting and debugging a nasty bug.



Open Terminal app

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Mac OS X: Open terminal to a specific location directly from the Finder; specify cd or pushd by preference.

Mac Tips article. // Versiontracker page.



IM: Reducing Workplace Interruption

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A recent study by researchers at Ohio State University and University of California, Irvine found that workers who used instant messaging on the job reported less interruption than colleagues who did not.



KVM Switch

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We have two server machines handling email, web site, etc. They share a shelf, so why not share keyboard, monitor (video) and mouse as well?



Clear Dock

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The default "side" (vertical) dock in Mac OS X Leopard has a black background. Ugh.



Neko Widget

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I missed my desktop kitty. Neko is again available, now as a Yahoo! Widget. Original, Tabby, Meezer, and more.

Neko



Laptop Pad

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I use my laptop sitting on the couch. I usually have a light blanket and one or more cats. The computer was getting warm so I bought an Xpad -- non-slip laptop cooler & heatshield.



Gridjit for Twitter

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What a great way to find new people to follow! Gridjit turns your Twitter-verse into a clickable grid view.



What is Twitter?

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XO colors

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I've discovered that XO laptops have different color schemes on the covers.



XO Laptop

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There's still time to Give One Get One.



One Laptop Per Child

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Give One. Get One. Program extended through Dec 31, 2007.



 



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