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One of my favorite "must-have" Mac OS X applications just got better. Oooh. Ahh.
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.
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.
Wil Shipley has posted a well-written, entertaining, and educational look into the heart of troubleshooting and debugging a nasty bug.
Mac OS X: Open terminal to a specific location directly from the Finder; specify cd or pushd by preference.
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.
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?
The default "side" (vertical) dock in Mac OS X Leopard has a black background. Ugh.
I missed my desktop kitty. Neko is again available, now as a Yahoo! Widget. Original, Tabby, Meezer, and more.
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.
What a great way to find new people to follow! Gridjit turns your Twitter-verse into a clickable grid view.
I've discovered that XO laptops have different color schemes on the covers.
vlb@cfcl.com