ninedaysoff:

Got my MacBook Pro 17” today. Almost feels like being used to european streets, then suddenly driving American highways in a Hum V. The only sucky drawback: there’s no monitor adapter included. That’s really fucked: spending so much money and having to spend some more for a device worth a few cent.

Augh, I know whatcha mean, and the worst part is that they want $20 for it! It hurts inside.

nikography:

home dock, from left to right: finder, smultron¹, photoshoop, colloquy, evernote, firefox, adium, preview. icons by david lanham.

¹ sadly, smultron is now inactive. this is terrible, because it is my favorite text editor by far for mac. it is also the only text editor for mac that has the “select multiple lines + tab = indent all lines” sequence.

Not this thread again…

Dock: hidden, or visible?

I love Dateline. Oh, and here comes Chris Hansen.

hunsonisgroovy:

Apple’s next-generation operating system Mac OS X Snow Leopard is two days away, and the $30 price tag is a strong incentive for Mac users to upgrade. But this news might get some eager Mac fans to slam on the brakes: Adobe Creative Suite 3, including Photoshop, may have some compatibility issues with the new OS.

Yeah, and Fireworks CS3 still doesn’t work on…oh, anything Mac.

minimalmac:

While it’s easy to keep clean and minimalist at start-up, my mid-workday desktop is generally a massive dogpile of apps and windows. I try to hide or quit apps I’m not using at the moment, but often forget. Enter SpiritedAway. SpiritedAway checks each running application’s activity, and if an application isn’t active for a certain fixed time (set by you), Spirited Away hides the application automatically.

And here’s a vital tip: the official sites are all distributing v0.7, but you need v0.6 for it to run reliably on Leopard, so until v0.8 comes out with a fix, here’s a direct link to it: SpiritedAway v0.6 .zip (any earlier versions aren’t universal binary.)

Just saw Snow Leopard in action. Have to say, Apple made some interface decisions that really were really for the worst, hoping Tinker Tool makes the jump faster than 10.6.1 does.

Like white boarders around right-clicked menus. And menu backgrounds being transparent grey as opposed to white. Just…*sigh*

Just trying out Screenr.com, pretty awesome webapp.

I’m looking for a mac application I once stumbled upon. Essentially it’s a little palette where all your menu bar apps live. So say you can never access all your menu bar apps because the menu of the application you’re using covers most of the menu bar apps - you can use this alternative menu bar palette thing to access the menu bar app.

Anyone know what this is called (kinda ambiguous, heh)?

imkevin:

Getting something new tomorrow.

So jealous.