I wouldn’t use this, but it might be popular with recent switchers who gripe about the focus-follows-mouse thing. $15 mouse hack for Mac OS X adds focus-follows-mouse behavior, along with the ability to resize, move, and identify background windows without clicking on them. (Thanks to DF reader Nathan Henderson for the link.) MondoMouse ★ In order for software to significantly modify Mac OS X, you have to type in your password. On a Windows PC, software (both good and evil) can change the system without your even knowing about it. (Via Nat Irons via email.) Apple Cracks ‘Bushism’ Syntax Joke ★Īpple, on a page touting the Mac’s security advantage versus Windows (emphasis added): The best part of all this, though, is that I managed to get the word “frankensteinesque” onto the /TR/ page! Mac OS X Server: AppleShare Performance Tuning for Client and Server ★ĭetailed Apple KnowledgeBase article with advanced techniques for tuning AppleShare performance. Web Forms 2.0 Spec Published as W3C Working Draft ★ The fact that it wasn’t there left opportunities for third parties, but that doesn’t mean Apple shouldn’t address the missing functionality. Some sort of backup functionality belongs in the OS. Monday, 28 August 2006 Dave Nanian on Time Machine ★ĭave Nanian of Shirt Pocket software - developers of the excellent SuperDuper backup utility for Mac OS X - on Time Machine: And users will have to keep coming back to the SpiralFrog web site once per month to watch more ads to keep all of their previous downloads enabled. Universal has apparently agreed to participate in SpiralFrog, an upcoming new music service that plans to make music available without charge, but to get the downloads, you’ll have to sit through advertisements (or perhaps the ads will be attached to the downloaded songs?), and the music will be encoded in a protected WMA format, which means it won’t work on iPods. ![]() Universal Backs Free-With-Advertising Music Rival to iTunes ★ Let’s hope this leads to Google producing better Mac desktop software. Unlike Microsoft, Apple clearly doesn’t consider Google a competitor. “Like Apple, Google is very focused on innovation and we think Eric’s insights and experience will be very valuable in helping to guide Apple in the years ahead.” “Eric is obviously doing a terrific job as CEO of Google, and we look forward to his contributions as a member of Apple’s board of directors,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Google CEO Eric Schmidt Joins Apple’s Board of Directors ★ the way many “news” sites break up articles into two or three pages to load. I’ve long thought that equating pageviews with popularity leads to site design that requires users to reload pages over and over - e.g. He’s recording the resulting calls and posting the funniest ones. He’s set up a special line where he forwards telemarketers, with a playback loop full of comments intended to keep them on the line for as long as possible (“Why don’t you tell me a bit more about what you’re offering…”). ![]() The web interface has a very slick UI (as does the Musicast app itself), and it also publishes your playlists in RSS format for iTunes (or whatever other feed reader you want to use). You select which of your playlists you want to share, and Musicast runs a web server on your Mac that shares those songs. Very well-done new app ($18) for sharing your iTunes music over the Internet. Public beta - complete with warnings that there are missing features, bugs, and that the data store is not to be trusted yet - Getting Things Done app. Tuesday, 29 August 2006 Midnight Inbox 0.9 ★ Their support for Daring Fireball is much appreciated. (Send your inquiries to thanks to August’s Deck advertisers: DesignerID, Adobe, Fresh Books, Adaptive Path UX Week, Carson Systems, O’Reilly, Text Link Ads, Jewelboxing, Squarespace, and Veer. One spot open for September get it while the getting is good. Scott Stevenson, and most of his commenters, push back against Matt Neuburg’s criticism of the food and accommodations at WWDC 2006. (Thanks to Chris Ryland for the link.) Wednesday, 30 August 2006 In Defense of WWDC 2006 ★ Not news to me that windows being sucked into the Dock are “live” (try the slow-minimize effect with a running QuickTime movie, for example), but this is a neat trick nonetheless, and it’s one of those things most people probably don’t realize. (Via Mark Dalrymple via email.) Minimized Window Trick ★ He made use of it in his Ironcoder contest entry, DaliClock. Kevin Ballard’s analysis of the undocumented system call behind the “live window” Genie special effects. Linked List: August 2006 Thursday, 31 August 2006 CGSSetWindowWarp Explained ★
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