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27 jan. 2006

@apple@

SnatchEm is a Dashboard widget that takes a URL and saves (in a clean folder on the Desktop) every file (your choice of images, videos or documents) linked by the page. It might not work for every case, but that’s just the kind of thing I find useful to have on my Dashboard rather than have to hunt everywhere for whichever application it was that could do that.

 

@apple@

Okay, seriously, how come iTunes is able to crossfade tracks, but can’t manage to play album tracks in sequence without blanks between them? Even if I activate crossfading but set it to zero seconds, it doesn’t take a hint and won’t preload the next track.

 

@apple@

Universal Applications, the Apple-maintained list of all applications available as universal binaries. Maybe all Mac blogs could stop announcing each and every application that switches to universal now…

 

@apple@

This will be of limited use to most people, but if you want to remove the Contour ShuttlePro’s useless menubar icon in OS X (that’s a decent controller, most useful with video editing apps, that I just use to control system volume and iTunes playback), you have to kill the ContourShuttleMenu process, then (for more permanent results — you could also certainly create a script to kill it on each login) dive into the Contour Shuttle application’s package, then into the Contents / Resources / ContourShuttleHelper package, create a Contents / Resources / Disabled folder and put ContourShuttleMenu.app file in there (I figure it should also work if you just delete or rename it).

 

@windows@

Windows has its Quicksilver, and as ridiculous as it looks from an OS X user’s standpoint, it’s got to be a must-have for any PC user. Try it, install it and press Ctrl-Space. (Not personally tested, I don’t feel like turning my PC on. Ever again. But Quicksilver is so indispensible, even the lamest copy can’t be superfluous.)

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