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#FF00AA


14 feb. 2006

@apple@

iCalViewer, which displays your iCal data as a convenient, unobtrusive desktop overlay, has a 2.0.6 update reportedly fixing a memory leak. Since memory abuse was the reason I abandoned it in favor of the iCal Events widget, that should be interesting — after 24 hours of use, it seems to work fine. Be sure to check it out if you use iCal at all. (Shareware, but fully functional in free mode — it mostly disables the display of iCal’s to-do items, which I don’t use.)

 

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Teleport isn’t particularly new, but I hadn’t had the opportunity to install it yet. Double-click the .prefPane to install it on my iMac and on the mini, check a couple boxes and voilà: when I send my mouse cursor to the left side of the screen while pressing Alt (that’s configurable, of course), it automagically moves to the mini’s screen, allowing me to control it with my mouse and keyboard, and synchronizing pasteboards. I can totally use the real estate on my desktop — I’ll only have to keep the mini’s mouse around to wake it from sleep. (Freeware, an absolute must-have if you have several Macs and want to share keyboards but not monitors.)

 

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Grr, who decided that nobody could ever want to have a local webserver without making it available on the network? Okay, I probably won’t be able to do anything much with OS X’s Apache install, et it doesn’t matter too much because I’m behind a router, but why couldn’t they allow advanced users to just uncheck that box?

 

@apple@

Forget Jobs, Let’s Worship Woz:

The [external convection] chimney was necessary only because Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, the driving force behind the machine, couldn’t stand the sound of a cooling fan. So the [original Macintosh] shipped without one, even though it needed it, and a lot of users were forced to buy cardboard chimneys to stop their machines melting on their desks.

Bruce thought the chimney was a charming example of Jobs’ uncompromising genius. Jobs wasn’t always right, but he always got what he wanted.

Would you really call that genius?

 

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The MacBook Pro Intel PowerBook is quasi-shipping (glee — if only I’d won the lottery), with higher CPU speeds (Jobs must have found it unacceptable that batteries would last more than two hours); OS X 10.4.4 for PCs is quasi-shipping, too (no, I don’t intend to try it when it’s available, but I know someone who might, so maybe I’ll keep you updated); Camino 1.0 is shipping (but I don’t care, because bug #187720 is still open).

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