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A buddy of mine, Mike Panoff, has been obsessively working on a pet project aimed at making del.icio.us slightly more usable: A dashboard widget he’s calling “cloud.lic.io.us“.It essentially does one simple thing: Make all your del.icio.us tags available from your dashboard widget.He’s looking to release a few more features over the next couple of weeks, [...]

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Front Row Enabler back online, Escobar casts
doubt on ''letter from Apple''

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 03 May 2006 09:14:00 AM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

frontrow From MacMerc.com - Mac geeks without Front Row equipped iMacs, MacBook Pros or Mac Minis can rejoice at the return of Andrew Escobar's Front Row Enabler. The hack allows users to install Front Row (as downloaded from Apple's own website) and use it on "unsupported" machines.

Escobar had removed Enabler from his site at what he had believed to be a cease and desist order for Apple. After the shock wore off, Escobar began to suspect that forces other than Apple were behind the letter. His hack has now returned as has his detailed instructions on how to use it. (I'd recommend getting a printout or PDF of those instructions in case the letter turns out to be legit)

Now all you'll need is a sweet remote.

My Take

You know... I tried this little hack just before it was taken offline, and I gotta tell you... All it did was fuck up the two systems I put it on, to the point where I had to fix Tiger by reinstalling in order to fix what was damaged using this hack.

That being said, it's obviously pretty cool to be able to run Front Row on any Mac, but use this at your own risk, and don't be surprised if things don't work right after you do it...

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Macs and viruses: the true story

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 03 May 2006 09:06:00 AM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

virus From MacDailyNews.com - "There was a great story yesterday by 'technology writer' Dan Goodin at the Associated Press, and because it was from the AP, we can read it on several sites," John Gruber writes for Daring Fireball. "What’s great about an AP story like this one is that if you’re only paying attention to the headlines, it creates the impression that there are multiple reports from all over the web corroborating the same point, when in fact it’s just one story, repeated many times over by news publications that regurgitate whatever comes in over the AP wire."

"Journalism this good deserves a close analysis," Gruber writes before providing said analysis with gusto.

"With Apple yesterday launching a new television ad campaign that draws specific, pointed attention to the fact that Macs are not besieged by malware — this sort of bogus 'trend piece' that purposefully conflates the issues of whether Macs are in theory potentially vulnerable to malware (yes) with whether Macs are in reality under attack (no) is just what the doctor ordered," Gruber writes.

"If Goodin wanted to be reasonable or accurate, he could have written a story titled 'Some Guy Double-Clicked a Trojan Horse Virus for Mac OS X but It Didn’t Actually Spread to Anyone Else,' but what kind of story would that be? OK, it’d be a true story, but it wouldn’t be a good story," Gruber writes. "No one would have linked to such a story except to make fun of it: What would be the point of making a big stink out of one guy who got hit by a Mac OS X Trojan horse — which was so poorly written that it couldn’t even successfully spread to another computer — when there are hundreds of thousands (millions?) of Windows users suffering from malware every single day? What good journalism calls for is taking that one guy, and writing an article that presents his episode as though it were part of a trend of increasing Mac virus attacks. No one is going to make fun of Dan Goodin — or the Associated Press, or the dozens of reputable news outlets that ran the story — for that."

Full article, highly recommended, here.

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Gartner: Microsoft Windows Vista slips again to
June 2007

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 03 May 2006 09:04:00 AM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

Vista From MacDailyNews.com - "Microsoft Corp.'s long-awaited release of the upgrade to its flagship Windows operating system will likely be delayed again by at least three months, research group Gartner Inc. said on Tuesday,' Reuters reports. "The research note, released to clients on Monday, said the new Windows Vista operating system is too complex to be able to meet Microsoft's targeted November release for volume license customers and January launch for retail consumers."

"Gartner targets a Windows Vista release in the April-June quarter of 2007, nine to 12 months after Microsoft conducts a second major test, or 'beta,' release for Vista during the current quarter. 'Microsoft still wants to get it out as soon as possible, but slipping from January to March is nowhere near as bad as slipping from shipping before the holidays to after the holidays,' a group of Gartner analysts wrote in the report," Reuters reports. "A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company disagreed with the Gartner report and it was still on track to meet its launch dates."

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MacDailyNews Take: Long-awaited? By whom, exactly, besides the Windows box assemblers? Is anybody else really waiting with bated breath for Windows XP SP3 with Microsoft's twisted idea of what they think Mac OS X's UI looks like? This is no longer just a "train wreck." This is two freight trains in a head-on collision sandwiching a school bus next to a seaway while an out-of-control ocean liner plows over all three as jet planes continually dive bomb into the carnage. All the while, a strange, bald, fat monkey boy blissfully dances nearby as it all burns. Look up "implosion" and you get a satellite photo of Microsoft's campus in Redmond, WA.

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Smarter Crash Reports

post from The Apple Blog on 03 May 2006 02:53:54 AM. © The Apple Blog

It’s late, I’m moving files around from my G5 to my new Mini with the greatest of ease. Oh, and moving files for me isn’t a couple of Word documents and some pictu… I won’t go there. All in all, I’m transferring half a terabyte. There isn’t anything in my budget that could speed this [...]

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A Dictionary tip from Fresno

Need an inline definition? With Tiger, a supported application, and this key command, it's yours.

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